SON HOUSE - Grinnin' In Your Face

[bigblockboyz]

I love you son house R.I.P you keep me going

[blastor138]

18 people have no soul.

[kakerman]

Thank you Jack White.

[Tintinvid]

This song will always have way more rythm Than any rap song in history.

[Euph0ricacid]

i love u son house u spoke to me

[joemak13]

Black people don't appreciate the blues anymore. But thats fine, its black history month, and im gunna listen to the blues all month. Hell im gunna listen to the blues all year

[AClassOldie]

This song has one of the best lyrics ever written in the history of mankind, period.

[jorge772098]

I think in some ways musicians such as Leadbelly and Son House, owe much to guys like Kurt Cobain and Jack White, because they made​famous in this era songs like where did you sleep last night and death letter, they introduced me to blues and it is very important

[timbo177]

@jorge772098 The comtemporary musicians owe their influences? No, obviously Jack and Kurt appreciated their music and that's enough payment. Just because you overlook music doesn't mean it wasn't important to other people.

[jorge772098]

@timbo177no.. man, that's not what I meant, sorry my English is not very good. I mean, thanks to the music of guys like Jack and Kurt, I'm interested in the blues

[cheekybrooke]

This song is amazing, respect to Jack White for doing an amazing cover of it too.

[greenfish88]

18 "dislikes"?!!!....where's my shotgun?

[celticvisions4]

Sorry Jack White, you can't be a rich white boy and have this kinda soul

[Quakerman14]

@celticvisions4 It wasn't Jack White that made Jack White famous. All Jack is doing is opening the world up to music that started everything. At least give him the credit of giving credit to the true masters. Also, don't get it too twisted, he grew up in the bad part of Detroit. He wasn't handed everything. He worked his tail off to get to where he is now.

[cocoforskating]

@celticvisions4 He isn't rich at all, he is one of the most respectful men alive so shut up..

[raeree1]

Yes,this is true again,Jack White inspired me to check this song out;by my re-reading my Guitar World magazines,Feb 2006 and Sep 2009 issues.I'm a singer/songwriter that's been dabblin' with Americana/Blues Counrty styles for years.Thanks Jack from John Mauffray of Picayune,Ms/New Orleans as well.(Voodude Art)

[thewhitestripes13]

What the hell is with the skrillex ad? I want Son House dammit!

[RheaVid]

The Edwin Hawkins Singers brought me here. Mighty Clouds of Joy brought me here. The Staples Singers brought me here. And I thank them all.

[Butown]

thumbs up if jack white brought you here

[MagicalSix]

@Butown and give you thumbs down if it wasn't jack white who brought me here? Ok.

[beerluvr2]

Jack White brought me here too...thanks Mr. White

[dtigersfan2011]

Jack White brought me here

[legandrydirk]

@dtigersfan2011 Robert Johnston did

[011mtaylor]

Damn people writin novels for comments

[AndrewJBoyer]

I love this guys music. I like on MORE than just a musical connection. This is totally raw stripped down feelings from an average man, with a hard life. No inspirational speaker, opera singer, disco dancer, or preacher, has moved me as much as son house has.

[letsif]

America's Go Talent

[PeterBFC666]

Nice...

[TrajektorieLogik]

Why are you reading this?

[TheMadCaptainMusic]

I've done a remix of Jinx Blues Pt. 1 if anyone's interested. It's the only video on my channel.

[RedJimmy3]

Fuck. My eyes always water when I hear this... beyond amazing

[b4kre8ion]

wonder how many here in USTUPIDTUBE have actually taken educational music or have exclusively taken the time to research...so withthat said THE BLUES Rythm is based on syncopation and House is on time with his voice and utilizing his clap as accompaniment. check it cause this is my favorite house song because of the raw and empowering message beyond the song itself. And wake up people KILL the racism its 2012 damn near. Grow up and stop hating

[11pinrelay]

@b4kre8ion "We will tolerate anything but intolerance."

Genius...pure, original genius. Baaa.

[rhythmpal]

I sat on the floor of Goldstar Studios in 1971, while Spencer Davis, Peter Jamison and Jay Senter recorded Son House. today, that day and evening is still the most magical session I ever attended. Recording have never been released.

[MrAureliusR]

@rhythmpal i am jealous of you sir.

[fiddlerize]

its clearly in time, i'm a drummer and tap my feet to this, its in time. it just pauses a while. every four rounds or so. why bother dissin musicians who like son house or play son houses music, it gets people listening to old blues, like led zep did me. it takes the white folks to show the the young white kids what black musics about. oherwise they wouldnt hear the old greats!

[igessthsisgrwnup]

this niggas would shit on jack white, son house created this style from cotton blues

jack white just copied it and thru in some irregular rythyms and punkshit

[bookeater]

@igessthsisgrwnup Jack sites Son House constantly as an influence and his favourite artist. Every musician alive today was inspired by someone before them. Jack has done some damn fine tributes to Son and introduced him to a whole new generation of fans.

[MrCold012]

@igessthsisgrwnup so what? its still million times better that todays pop/dance/rap shit

[igessthsisgrwnup]

@MrCold012

okay i dont compare music to shittier ones

i just take it how it is

BIETCH

[pimptwob]

@igessthsisgrwnup Your comment is so ignorant man. Jack White totally idolizes these guys, if you knew anything about him, and takes this style of music and mixes it with his crazy punk/blues/hard rock mix up and makes it his own..it's not just copied through irregular rythyms and punkshit..maybe some some songs that are meant to be irregular sounding or punk sounding? Get a clue and quit being so close minded.

[igessthsisgrwnup]

you like men

[20FlightBlues]

@pimptwob

The problem a lot of people have with jack white is the resemblance to led zep. The whiny voice, does a lot of blues covers and gets credit for them by morons etc. Grated not his fault but kids and a lot of commentators today are dumb as a bunch of rocks. Difference is he never stole them he just covered them. He does sound like Robert Plant at times with the hard to listen to voice and such. I like the rockin' stuff they did but then they sold out and made junk.

[DanteInferno313]

@20FlightBlues how many blues songs did zepelin cover and they are the greatest rock band in the world.Im thankful for jack white and the music he brings us in this day and age with all the shit that is out there.

[crunkatron5000]

Can somebody get me an Mp3 of this please? I can't find it anywhere. 

[TheCharkk]

Oh don't mind, people grinnin' in blues's face.

[justhurryupduuuude]

I want to hear this performed EXACTLY like this for tv show audition. I want the judges to beg that soul to work for them. And i want to watch him reject those sad fucks and take it to the streets. Reject false icons. Love the blues.

[MrFishtaco567]

@justhurryupduuuude The blues is not about being exact, it's about feeling the music.

[justhurryupduuuude]

@MrFishtaco567 of course i ment the exact feeling. cuz you know sometimes words (like) have two meanings.

[MrMizaru]

@justhurryupduuuude the sad part is if it was performed infront of a tv audition they would probably reject him because they are stupid!

[justhurryupduuuude]

@MrMizaru if He did it right, id like to think that those pop musicing loving judges would feel it none the less < is that one word or three..?

[blister1324]

Off time is not wrong when it's intentional like this... or like meshuggah lol

[Az1111000]

There is nothing that will ruin a people better than prosperity! The opposite of this is the Blues!

[Az1111000]

To me the blues is finding out that picking cotton will cut up your hands. It's about discovering that an old lady can pick beans better than you even though you're closer to the beans than she is, because you're little. It's about rolling into a watermelon field and realizing that it's more work than you can do, but you will do it anyway. It's understanding that there's nothing to eat or drink, and I mean nothing! The blues means hardship. Real hardship.

[MotleygnrCrue]

I heard about this song in an interview with Jack White... I must say, he's turned me onto a lot of great music. This a wonderful track.

[BjarkeHellemann]

"Blues is easy to play; hard to feel" - Jimi Hendrix

[beatlezrawesome]

@BjarkeHellemann Blues CAN be easy. but feeling it isnt. i feel it. its freakin awesome.

[obatron1]

Damn...I've been running this one back to back all day. When House hits that high note it's like "uggh" straight to your gut.

[obatron1]

No synths, no auto tune, not even a band to back him...just a pure song and message from the soul. My favorite Son House song.

[00Raychel00]

True legend....

[auzzie560]

NEver have i ever heard music like this before...i love ittt! :D

[riverjoe128]

He don't mind if your grinning in his face (because of irregular clapping)

[Jugularkill]

Maybe its me or i'm hearing something Jack White isn't. That's not entirely irregular clapping it's mistakes fixed by improvisation.

I see where Jack got his shaky voice influence from. Good shit!

[danfrost313]

@Jugularkill Jack wasn't calling them mistakes, people need to realize this. What he means is, it's not a steady clap, it's not on time, but it's good.

[Jugularkill]

@danfrost313 I didn't say he did, I called it " mistakes fixed by improvisation".

[daverow49]

@rockhead, Blues is about feel. A living breathing thing. The song is in his heart. He is expressing it how he feels. He 'aint reading it note for note from a chart. Today's musicians have lost that. You can't plug in a "Feel Box", it comes from the heart. Enjoy the feel and don't dissect the performance. Listen to it over and over and find the feel:)

[Ganwarable]

Musicians nowadays use so many instruments; instruments which they can't even play to lay on records whatever they can "hear in their head". Overdubs, auto tunes, taking several takes for the almost perfect song, trying to make it complicated. I am finding this more complicated than a seven instrument song.

[yondaime4000]

the most perfect song of all time.

[bigwillhenk]

R.I.P David "Honeyboy" Edwards

[mpgregor]

if you don't feel the rhythm then you just have no soul. i can find beat 1 every time it comes around.

[IIIGilesIII]

Chills just ran down my spine... This is true blues music, the beat and rhythm is coming out through his veins and soul.

[HiddenSoulDrumer]

I see uncle tom & rice all over the place :O

[jumpinjoe88]

Man... This is right up there with Hendrix and Zeppelin for soul. I admit, I like his guitar playing more than Robert Johnson, too, even though he doesn't play it in this song.

[TheSeb12898]

this song is reality . these days a real friend is hard to find , everyone talks shit about everyone even your so called best friend will talk about you

[omga14]

@TheSeb12898 That's why I call my male people Sun and my women Love. The warmth and light they provide in the hardest of times and the glaring truth even when you don't see it or want to hear it is what make them true.

[jamesianv]

true happened to me .,

[IzzyAzrael]

This son house. his timing is not off time. he is singing his soul out. so everybody quit debating and just sing along or shut the hell up and enjoy a legend.

[merocket]

Being able to sing a song like this with no instrumentation except your voice and very off-beat claps, and being satisfied is something I really envy...this is amazing.

[MMLQue]

wtf

[Jschills]

Yeah man.... Reight on good brother sums it up if it can be.

[BarstowMoose]

Yay for knowing about Son House before "It Might Get Loud". Thanks for keeping the interest in Blues alive, Jack. We need more people of your influence promoting this music.

[MsSunnyKels]

Jack White is a wonderful person who just wants to keep good music alive. Yes I got to Son House because of him, but most good music you hear is suggested to you by someone. And that just someone happened to be Jack. I don't care if you hate me for it, I don't care if you hate Jack for it. I just want to listen and listen good.

[ImBetterthenGod123]

@Bee0727 Dude, MIchael jackson used to be a creepy pedophile who wrote his last decent song in 1987. Now hes a dead creepy pedophile who wrote his last good song in 1987. How can you even compare him to led zeppelin? And if that wasn't enough. You afterwards say that Son House is the reason, we have "singers" like kesha and chris brown. How the fuck can you be so stupid?

Please, Don't breed. I never seen a comment with so much fail.

[TheNationalPool]

Those claps have a bit too much treble.

[hogiesanKenobi]

Lynrd Sknrd - Sounds like Son House singing blues..

[iamaheron]

Jack White is shit, get that honky faggot out of the comments.

[santuka18]

@iamaheron Im 19 years old and I know son house because of jack white...So don't say that because thank to people like jack people like me can know this beautifull and pure music...

Cheers mate...

[kmikl]

@iamaheron To be honest, I had heard of Son House in passing, but never heard his stuff before I heard this on 'It Might Get Loud'. Jack White has a deep knowledge of the blues.

There's no shame in finding out about new (or old) music from different places. Just be glad you know about it.

[unholychunk]

@iamaheron you sir, are dumb

[MrV1C7OR]

@iamaheron Jack White is the best guitarist of the XXI century, so get out of your cave of blues and see the light of the blues rock.

[bocatablanco]

@MrV1C7OR Forget that, Knopfler and etc... are better than him, off course

[MrV1C7OR]

@bocatablanco Listen what i said and then answer. i said XXI Century, Are Knopfler and Clapton of the XXI Century ?

[thinkingdrummer]

@MrV1C7OR Neither is Jack White. And Knopfler and Clapton still play. lol

[MrV1C7OR]

@thinkingdrummer Oh my god, YES but they made their debut during the XX Century, Jack White , Matt Bellamy, Dan Auerbach and others are XXI Century musicians !

[jumpinjoe88]

@iamaheron Jack White is amazing. Best modern blues player that writes and managed to get popular.

[slatedumpmusic]

12 people grin in others faces.

[kmikl]

When confronted with the choice of perfectly engineered pop that lands perfectly on 3/4 beats... Or listening to someone that sang like this to get whatever is in them out...

The choice is simple: This stuff has a life of its own.

[ChandlerMathers123]

I came here because I am in love with Jack White and this is his favorite song. But after listening to it, I was absolutely astonished. This song is...I can't describe it. 

[chanecia75]

i love this song, son house, was one of the best blues singers...

indeed.

[brandonedwardnorth]

@rockhead, now I'm not the musician Jack White is and i'm not a drummer either, just a guitar player, but i've listened to the clapping and it is an irregular clap; if this song were put to music (with the way Son House sings it) it would be in 2/4 time. And sometimes he gets that clap, and sometimes he goes for a more rhythm and gets off that 2/4 time. But like Jack said, it doesn't matter. be The whole song is being performed irregularly; thats what great about the blues. it doesnt conform.

[TheMudbrooker]

@brandonedwardnorth Watch Son play "Death Letter" or "Preachin Blues" sometime and keep an eye on his right hand. He's clapping the same way he picks and strums his guitar, the difference is that without sustain between the handclaps it sounds off kilter.

[HaxxyHagberg]

@TheMudbrooker I've been watching and waiting for someone to realize that haha well done

[Shawnziii473]

@brandonedwardnorth Yes. But one thing about this song... is the lyrics haunt it along with the tone of voice that the blues style offers.... Haunting.

[tpstrat14]

@brandonedwardnorth ARE YOU LISTENING TO JACK WHITE RIGHT NOW?!?!?! Heck, forget that question. Have you EVER heard Jack White sing with this full and soulful a voice??? Why in the FUCK are people talking about that no talent ass clown Jack White here??????????????????????????­?????

[ashleychapin11]

great music now for those that are judging other artist by their ability as players its not about the technicality of their playing its the raw emotion they put into the song I am a guitarist and I understand I am just a piece of what music is who cares how well someone plays if you hear it and feel it its done its job and besides steve vie is better than page and white and I think steve vies music blows all tech no emotion

[halogenke680]

i really don't mind now... life's much easier.

[yourdabull]

sing it every day!!

[jumpinjoe88]

@Bee0727 What the fuck are you talking about? Also, are you like 9?

[relaxedguru89]

@Bee0727 How could you put Michael Jackson and Led Zeppelin in the same sentence as those three hacks? O=

[fishman017]

Among the best songs ever, stoically and ascetically performed by the greatest blues artist of all time.

[MrJasperjwood]

father of the blues

[kyliergillette]

Man had the devil in 'em.

[515742617000027]

@kyliergillette he wanted to be a Baptist preacher when he was young and at 15 began to start a career in it. but he did teach himself guitar and the blues even when the church strictly forbid it. ...but he also killed a man(supposedly in self defense)... LOL so i gues maybe he does have a LITTLE devil in him. xD

[7th75thCallaghan]

Jack White is an idiot. Also he can't play guitar for shit. Seems like a cool guy to hang out with though.

[kyliergillette]

@7th75thCallaghan Your a fucking idiot.

[666Schweizer666]

@7th75thCallaghan go listen to kesha if you want a lack of talent

[evangrogers]

@7th75thCallaghan rofl, way to prove you're an idiot

[7th75thCallaghan]

@evangrogers Whatever you all say, is obviously correct.

[Blagga0muffin]

Jack WHITE. 

[StupidTeddybear]

Holy shit just discovered this . WTFFFFF... this triggered something in me!!!!! . i didnt mean to find this. wow!!!!!!!

[kmikl]

@StupidTeddybear Oh lord, you're screwed now, man. :) 

[Alk3ohol]

PERFECT

[davelazio]

most powerful song i've ever heard

[NeonBlueAlex]

That's the wonderful thing about blues. It's not about expensive production. Or fancy arrangements. It's about subjective truth and real emotion.

[sarcastic456]

he's followin the rythym of his soul

[Alk3ohol]

@sarcastic456 love it

[MadGuitarJunior]

i po co efekty podłogowe, szukanie najlepszych przetworników i całe to jebanie bez sensu?!

no kurwa, poezja

[nickycapzz]

no instruments at all yet this song is just too badass

[vesternor]

12 people dislike being grinned at?? HA!

[gglaw42]

Pure poetry, I am hooked on this cat.

[000Z9A]

Jack is the best without him I've never listened to son house..!

Sad the white stripes broke up...

[Zanotaro]

People Grinnin' in your face.

[lukeyouknoww]

No matter what you do, someone's gonna hate you for it, so do what makes you happy.

[evangrogers]

This is interesting.

This song is Jack White's favorite song, and recently he was on the Colbert Report.

Colbert was sure grinning in White's face. And it was hard to understand how White was handling it.

I wonder if this song was playing in White's head.

[burtbenediction]

this songs powerful just because its true

[dillbokfilms]

im speechless 

[PPerfectToMe]

Jack's favourite song is very beautiful.

[azothdaco]

Thanks Jack...

[badrobot26]

amazing......what is left to say?

[rockntroopen]

this is so awsome i can listen to this all day long

[iamshea1]

his clapping doesnt matter to him or us, its just the feeling of it all

[Zafleming12]

jack sent me too

as reinforcements

[wonderfulbabs]

Dallas Green anyone?

[rambofuckingrocks]

Son House just claps whenever the fuck he wants and he just makes an awesome song. That's how good he is.

[rockhead261]

Jack White thought Son was clapping off-time. The truth is Son is the only one who knows the timing to this song... the rest of us are still trying to figure it out.

[Sweeper5]

@rockhead261 No, I think Jack White is correct...the clapping is out of time. Reference the claping sequence at 1:30 - 1:36. Not that it matters, just as Jack points out because this isn't about perfect tempo or anything like that. It's a joy to listen to Son House singing his heart out like that.

[theSICkidd24]

@Sweeper5 I think it was supposed to be a joke man, Peace!

[sarcastic456]

@rockhead261 i figured it out

[lewars1912]

@rockhead261 Don't think Son House knew either. He was probably drunk at the time.

[naknorman]

@rockhead261 soooooo agree!!!! a fellow reader its the only way.

[LeArnodeGuise]

@rockhead261 well then the timing is veery special but it doesnt mather tough still a great song, jack withe,s favorite, dont know why your grinnig about him.

[LordHypnos93]

@rockhead261 I really hope you know off time doesnt mean out of time.

[JohnMalcolm]

@rockhead261 The insistance on regular beat is quite a recent phenomenon.



[lilburnmafia]

@rockhead261 off-time meaning not on beat.

[Bobsagot90]

and there he is. Grinning in my face. So I wont worry, thanks son house.

[RealRockandRoll]

Listen to the passion here, look at his face! This man aint lived the blues........This man done lived the blues times 50!!!

[wriggleslop]

Jack sent me here as well. Jack is God....

[coscoso]

@wriggleslop Nop, Son House is God

[AlvaroGnR99]

Pone los pelos de punta... impresionante

[sarayarus1]

He is singing with soul

[Explosivenothingness]

Wow, just wow, briljant.

[rockerduff1231]

here because i'm a curious musician who desperately seeks to extend his knowledge to a wider array of genres