I had not finished and about this I read somewhere that "Death Letter" is considered one of the most anguished laments stunning and emotionally in the work of the Delta blues
Thank you for your video. I agree with "faunoran" in his commentary of 2010. The interpretation of Son House is emotionally stunning. With that voice that sounds like death, pain associated with this through every fiber of the body you really feel that the letter announcing the loss of the beloved was received in time.
I saw him in 1967 in London - frail, led on by two young guys, was carefully sat down, made some incoherent sounds then a few seconds silence then WOW into Death Letter and one of the greatest performances I've ever seen. 44 years ago and I still remember it clearly.
The master. Jack White got his inspiration from Son house. He gets it right too. I listen to this and tears come to my eye's. This hardly ever happens to this old man but this one reallt strikes a cord in my soul. Thanks for the post.
I play the blues a lot, and everybody tells me why I play things that are so old and out of date. I don't even know what to say to them, the blues is just so natural and so raw, you can literally see it in Son House's face when he's playing the guitar. He doesn't play the blues cause it sounds cool, he plays the blues because he lives it and feels that shit flowing through his veins...
How his fingers hits the strings like he wants to show his pain anger, and right after that, how he pats the strings with the same fingers showing his passion and love for life. Damn, blues isn't about wasting years workin' on that guitar, no, it's all about living your life in the way you like and then with all the anger, sadness, happiness, blues rises in your heart. That man definitely does not play his guitar, he pours out his feelings and this is why blues will always be remembered.
after watching this all I have to say for the state of music and art today is, fuck jay - z, fuck wayne and fuck just about anyone at the top of the rap game or even rock game for that matter fuck em' all they have no passion and no balls just bunch of corporate pigs getting fatter and richer in a faltering economy...if son house wee around tofay hed rrip his whole heart out nd show it to the world!
@steviewonder417 i think theres just as much passion in some rappers as there is in some bluesmen and just because you dont like it doesnt make it bad
@steviewonder417 theres always gonna be crap in music, they had back in the 60s with top of the pops and the 70s with discos and now we have the crap on the radio that little kids and teenage girls like, but there is great music around today too its just harder to find
You seem ignorant of the many great artists that exist today, in many genres: bluegrass, classical, roots music, blues, and world music. I mean great, in the sense that they are communicating something heartfelt and real, in the vein of Son House. Step out of the corporate matrix and find them. Of course living in SF bay area makes that an option you may not have, but there is still youtube.
@nodunce no your fucking ignorant to to what I actually posted idiot. I never said all rappers asshole quit being so damn sensitive. Not only did I also mention rock artist, I aso specifically said the corporate sellouts....Y are you leaving pretentious comments like "you seem ignorant of the many great artist that exist todAY" QUIT BEIN A DOUCHE! CONTEXT MY FRIEND FUCKING CONTEXT!
Want to get even more of the story? Go read a biography of Son House. Pretty amazing/sad about how this giant was put away into "common jobs" for many years. Recorded by the Library of Congress in the 1930s, working the railroads in the 50s, then brought out back into the light in the last two decades of his life.
It doesn't get more real than this, and I wish we could recognize genius when it arrives on our doorstep.
There's real artist out there but you wouldn't know about it because companies don't want you to see them. They put a blanket over them and beat them with a stick. We wouldn't notice because we're blinding by the women they push out on the videos in their underwear.
@tf1985 The only thing that Lil Wayne has in common with those men is the color of his skin. What ever went wrong with Lil Wayne's music has nothing to do with the blues. There's a reason good people die poor. Money is of no concern to a true artist. If you want to know what the blues really led to, you have to look underground.
He's a gem and we southerners dont mind sharin one of the treasures we contributed to modern day rock, rock and blues, etc. But make no mistake, this is southern heritage artist that became the artist we all love because of our racial strife and economic pressure unique only to the southern United States of America, and YES I am 100% bias on the topic! LOL
I swear he is my favourite blues singer ever. He just pours his heart out. And there's some other amazing blues singers like Robert Johnson or Howlin Wolf but none top Son House... At least thats what I think
If someone who never heard music before asked me what it is, i would show them son house and no other...Son House truly is music in its best and truest form.
Son House plays guitar like a goddam warrior. He hits the bloody thing like a man, nothing like the sissy's who play guitar today all slowly and softly with their soft fingers and hands.
Son House is the Guitar God, This man plays gitar like a man, put's all his emotions in and hits the bloody thing. His playing oozes style, his music real, full of life & soul.
WYATTKOPP-You made some interesting observations. Among the other guitarists for whom House was the mentor, was Robert Johnson, if my memory serves. I think I read that in Lomax's excellent book, "The Land Where the Blues Began."
One of the things that really amazes me is how lucky we are that this music was discovered by people who had the foresight to preserve it. Imagine all the beautiful music that was lost to the ages before Alan Lomax went all the way out into the Delta to record these artists. The Blues Hall of Fame really paid Lomax quite an honor by entering him into the Hall of Fame, this is an honor he rightly deserves was saving this music for us.
Son House is one of the best guitarists of all time. This is the man who taught Muddy Waters and I think Muddy Waters is who influenced artists such as Jimi Hendrix. These guitarists from the Mississippi Delta like House and McDowall are the top guitarists of all time. Hendrix, Clapton, Dylan and any other guitarist you could think of would all likely tell you that these are the true masters of the guitar....
anybody else notice that the spacing on the top string is closer than the rest? i wonder if that was a feature of those old steel resonators or if the bridge of his guitar was just fucked up.
Coming of age in the 60's was very exciting, almost half the rock shows I went to had an old bluesman on the bill. Got to see Son House, Big Mama Thornton, Furry Lewis and many other of the great blues artist's that have had a continuing influence on the Blues Genre. Keep the blues alive. Go to your local clubs that have blues nights or just to a blues club.
My friends make fun of these old blues players because in interviews they don't have good speaking skills and sometimes don't use words correctly but thats just how they were raised. Go to school for a few years, then learn to work a farm. They probably make fun of us because we piss away most of our youth sitting in a classroom listening to someone talk.
@Gageisrasta As long as the point gets across, who cares? They usually have more emotion than the average white kid...who wastes his youth in a classroom, but he's too dumb to learn anything anyway
A dobro is played with a slide and has very high action. Here he's playing a resonator guitar. They look similar and one could be setup as the other, but they are different.
@Dronemaker I think - could be wrong - but 'Dobro' was one of the first companies to make resonator guitars, hence the term 'Dobro' being used as a catch-all for that style of guitar. However, Dobro-style resonators are more often played with the guitar flat on the player's lap and the left hand holding the slide/bottleneck over the top of the neck, as you might expect of a country player. (You can even get resonators designed specifically for this style, with a square neck!)
son house...its as if ur song was made for me...no...it was made for blues...for those feelin blue, hence the name. blues aint JUST for mellow an sulky type of fellings, its blue because of how raw it is.
the raw emotion this song has...no surprise its epic.
es increible como canta son house!!! porque escuchando los covers cantados de este blues que hay en youtube todas las personas que se atreven a cantarla lucen realmente disminuidas
y es que al escuchar a son house este suena como si realmente estuviese recibiendo en ese mismo instante la carta y estuviese sintiendo con todas las fibras de su cuerpo la muerte de su amada
es una voz que suena a muerte y dolor expresadas de forma brutal ... supongo que eso es el blues ...
The way he sets his guitar down so gingerly at the end of the song, after just banging it to death, says all you need to know about how the Blues helped many blacks escape the Delta's sadistically harsh lifestyle down on Stoval Farm. (even if only temporarily)
Try Googling "Son House Death Letter". there are some fairly accurate lyrics there. Some of the words are a bit strange sounding to contemporary ears, but it's worth putting in the time to become familiar with the style. this is some of the world's great music and it's purely American. Happy listening.
@Gageisrasta You folks that are negging Gagelrasta ain't really READING his comment, the upshot of which is 'when you turn the volume ON, he sounds like he plays for the angels'
Eddie "Son" House on " DEATH LETTER BLUES" absolutely proves beyond a shadow of a doubt , WE don't come up with these incredible ideas that happen. Sometimes though WE are blessed enough to be the conduit or medium through which they flow. The raw emotion & real conviction in his voice has and will continue to make me believe when you get it "right" , MUSIC CAN BE MAGIC, sometimes haunting, but STILL MAGIC!
This is Robert Johnson's area, but you don't hear enough about him. I heard him first through of all people, Eric Clapton. He's been long gone. Time takes all of us at some point. The research shows him being born early 20th century. Probably be well over 100 if alive today...At any rate. Great roots/blues music.
Son House seems to accomplish the same warbling punctuation with his voice as he does on the guitar at the end of each musical phrase. Amazing blues artist, a real national treasure.
It could be, but it's very unlikely, most delta blues was played in GBDGBD. DADF#AD is more of a contemporary tuning. Plus, he plays a b root, and it looks like it's on the open string, so.... One of the lower strings needs to be tuned to a b.
Its DGDgbd a.k.a Spanish tunning, your describing a normal G chord (exept for the D on the trebble string) how you would make it when playing in standard tunning but thats not open G tunning.
Son House is as awesome as one man could possibly be.
dcmohler1983 2 months ago 2
@dcmohler1983 agreed!
jmnelson8 2 weeks ago
Thank you again for the video
I had not yet finished and I would just add that I also agree to "deermilk" in his commentary of 2009
Son House out of its capacity to touch the listener has a sense of timing. His stage presence can not leave indiférérent.
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05212528 2 months ago
I had not finished and about this I read somewhere that "Death Letter" is considered one of the most anguished laments stunning and emotionally in the work of the Delta blues
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05212528 2 months ago
Thank you for your video. I agree with "faunoran" in his commentary of 2010. The interpretation of Son House is emotionally stunning. With that voice that sounds like death, pain associated with this through every fiber of the body you really feel that the letter announcing the loss of the beloved was received in time.
05212528 2 months ago
want some real mean bastard music,, listen to Albert King, Gotta love the KING
Bigwoodie64 2 months ago
This music has real character, and is played with emotion, the shit of today is so fake.
Bigwoodie64 2 months ago
BAD ASS!!! Too legit!
lonerworm 3 months ago 2
In-fucking-credible! This sends chills down my spine!
goingjolly 3 months ago
the white stripes brought me here:)
beatlezrawesome 3 months ago
Saw him at Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1970- 3000 people transfixed by this man.
moffat691 4 months ago
Jeeez! This is so great! thx for sharing
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I saw him in 1967 in London - frail, led on by two young guys, was carefully sat down, made some incoherent sounds then a few seconds silence then WOW into Death Letter and one of the greatest performances I've ever seen. 44 years ago and I still remember it clearly.
rogerw117 5 months ago
Closest thing to Son House Jr. today is Seasick Steve. Been listenin' to Son House for 35 years and it never gets old.
ahmrahtcheer 5 months ago
The master. Jack White got his inspiration from Son house. He gets it right too. I listen to this and tears come to my eye's. This hardly ever happens to this old man but this one reallt strikes a cord in my soul. Thanks for the post.
bluesman33 5 months ago
I wonder where that guitar is right now,,,,,,
SHRIKE427 6 months ago
@SHRIKE427 Don't know but no-one else alive could get that sound out of it.
TheBadmonkey1977 5 months ago
@SHRIKE427 it should be in a museum right now
NintendoSinceBirth1 5 months ago
The true father of the delta blues!
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ratstompmusic 6 months ago
Love his guitar work. Very interesting way of strumming the guitar! Wish there were more videos like this
mathewrodgersrocks 6 months ago
Crikey. Outstanding performance from a master.
Philby62 6 months ago
I play the blues a lot, and everybody tells me why I play things that are so old and out of date. I don't even know what to say to them, the blues is just so natural and so raw, you can literally see it in Son House's face when he's playing the guitar. He doesn't play the blues cause it sounds cool, he plays the blues because he lives it and feels that shit flowing through his veins...
jaguilera1011 6 months ago
THIS IS GODLIKE.
This is so perfect
Son house is my 2nd favorite guitarist
kildare97 6 months ago
This has got to be one of the most intense performances I've ever seen.Makes my skin crawl.
lowlifer60 7 months ago
those are some fat fuckin' strings that man is using.
MaxwellsAttourney 7 months ago
The greatest blues artist.
fishman017 7 months ago
How his fingers hits the strings like he wants to show his pain anger, and right after that, how he pats the strings with the same fingers showing his passion and love for life. Damn, blues isn't about wasting years workin' on that guitar, no, it's all about living your life in the way you like and then with all the anger, sadness, happiness, blues rises in your heart. That man definitely does not play his guitar, he pours out his feelings and this is why blues will always be remembered.
onesadsong 7 months ago 2
There is a special place in heaven for the person that had the foresight to film this!
bryantuten 8 months ago
The Passion, Honesty and Love that this Man shows in any performance is just Incredible.
RichardMcSundy 8 months ago
beautiful
badusername321 8 months ago
you cannot cover this the same way its just not to be replicated , too good !!
greenroom505 9 months ago
Great years for music! Great musicians and great souls.
thesuzukisan1 9 months ago
after watching this all I have to say for the state of music and art today is, fuck jay - z, fuck wayne and fuck just about anyone at the top of the rap game or even rock game for that matter fuck em' all they have no passion and no balls just bunch of corporate pigs getting fatter and richer in a faltering economy...if son house wee around tofay hed rrip his whole heart out nd show it to the world!
steviewonder417 10 months ago 22
@steviewonder417 i think theres just as much passion in some rappers as there is in some bluesmen and just because you dont like it doesnt make it bad
NintendoSinceBirth1 7 months ago
@NintendoSinceBirth1 some you bastard not all some
steviewonder417 6 months ago
@steviewonder417 theres always gonna be crap in music, they had back in the 60s with top of the pops and the 70s with discos and now we have the crap on the radio that little kids and teenage girls like, but there is great music around today too its just harder to find
NintendoSinceBirth1 6 months ago 2
@NintendoSinceBirth1 cool with that
steviewonder417 6 months ago
@steviewonder417
You seem ignorant of the many great artists that exist today, in many genres: bluegrass, classical, roots music, blues, and world music. I mean great, in the sense that they are communicating something heartfelt and real, in the vein of Son House. Step out of the corporate matrix and find them. Of course living in SF bay area makes that an option you may not have, but there is still youtube.
nodunce 6 months ago
@nodunce no your fucking ignorant to to what I actually posted idiot. I never said all rappers asshole quit being so damn sensitive. Not only did I also mention rock artist, I aso specifically said the corporate sellouts....Y are you leaving pretentious comments like "you seem ignorant of the many great artist that exist todAY" QUIT BEIN A DOUCHE! CONTEXT MY FRIEND FUCKING CONTEXT!
steviewonder417 6 months ago
@steviewonder417 Jack White is the man that keeps R&R alive
kidaaa0 6 months ago
@steviewonder417
Best comment on youtube. Ever.
(Besides the spelling/grammar)
BrianAkABP 5 months ago
@steviewonder417 I think you need to listen to some more modern music boy. Just because it ain't popular, don't mean it's not there
TaffyRaphie 5 months ago
@steviewonder417
Want to get even more of the story? Go read a biography of Son House. Pretty amazing/sad about how this giant was put away into "common jobs" for many years. Recorded by the Library of Congress in the 1930s, working the railroads in the 50s, then brought out back into the light in the last two decades of his life.
It doesn't get more real than this, and I wish we could recognize genius when it arrives on our doorstep.
cypherks 4 months ago
What tuning is he in. It's not open G
bastus451 10 months ago
@bastus451 it is in open g.
fentonjames 8 months ago
@bastus451 it is in open g
fentonjames 8 months ago
FN LOVE IT-Where its real DIRTY LIFE
greezil428 10 months ago
Hello, proof that just because it's old doesn't make it good.
dabigpornstar69 10 months ago
Son House, John Lee Hooker, Howlin Wolf, Lil Wayne.
Somewhere along the line something went terribly, terribly wrong.
tf1985 10 months ago 117
@tf1985
Yeah, it was Reagan..
meinLiebsterFeind 9 months ago
@tf1985 either that last ones parents were on too many drugs or may it really is the apocalypse
Noseheros 8 months ago
@tf1985 this is the best blues performance ever,no way!
MrFabiodagostino 8 months ago
@tf1985 yeah lol, the end of that line
severalspecies987 8 months ago
@tf1985 haha yeah, the end of that bloody line
severalspecies987 8 months ago
@tf1985 EXTREMELY wrong.This generation [We] owe music and art a huge apology.
Fayme20 8 months ago
@Fayme20
There's real artist out there but you wouldn't know about it because companies don't want you to see them. They put a blanket over them and beat them with a stick. We wouldn't notice because we're blinding by the women they push out on the videos in their underwear.
Disburden 7 months ago
@tf1985 The only thing that Lil Wayne has in common with those men is the color of his skin. What ever went wrong with Lil Wayne's music has nothing to do with the blues. There's a reason good people die poor. Money is of no concern to a true artist. If you want to know what the blues really led to, you have to look underground.
smokyp3nguin 8 months ago
@tf1985
It's called money .
Disburden 7 months ago 3
@tf1985 nothing went wrong,everyone has their own expression...
onlyjoetee 7 months ago
@tf1985 loloool..House, Hooker, Wolf and then the bombshell; Wayne(garbage)..BEST POST ON YOUTUBE EVER!!
roastbeefdinner 6 months ago
@tf1985 Auto tune.
theuspatriot3000 2 months ago
@tf1985 i totally agree with ya!!!
dying2self2000 2 months ago in playlist Liked videos
Damn this is so old, but sooooooo good! This is where rock n roll started! With the dirty old black blues. Love it!
ZeppelinFloydRoses 10 months ago
Cool as fk <3
kazzaflaz 10 months ago
The Real Deal!
SingItGrl 10 months ago
Rebellion, harsh realities, sorrow and pain is where this music comes from.
vatti902 10 months ago
how can anybody dislike this ? assholes..this is what i call REAL music...
the way Son plays the guitar is freakin cool..
hayden50 11 months ago
If any University offered a class in "Singing like you mean it", Son House would be one of the core curriculum subjects!
kevfulchester 11 months ago
Man, I wish he could have seen how Jack covered this song. He probably would have liked it.
rep300 11 months ago
He's a gem and we southerners dont mind sharin one of the treasures we contributed to modern day rock, rock and blues, etc. But make no mistake, this is southern heritage artist that became the artist we all love because of our racial strife and economic pressure unique only to the southern United States of America, and YES I am 100% bias on the topic! LOL
treymartin3334 11 months ago
I swear he is my favourite blues singer ever. He just pours his heart out. And there's some other amazing blues singers like Robert Johnson or Howlin Wolf but none top Son House... At least thats what I think
colosalblack 11 months ago
If someone who never heard music before asked me what it is, i would show them son house and no other...Son House truly is music in its best and truest form.
6Expendable6Youth6 1 year ago
@6Expendable6Youth6 I couldn't have said it better myself.
kristinarae 11 months ago
Son House plays guitar like a goddam warrior. He hits the bloody thing like a man, nothing like the sissy's who play guitar today all slowly and softly with their soft fingers and hands.
A real man Son House and a guitar God.
fIRsTRATmAN 1 year ago
Look at his right hand....
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Son House is the Guitar God, This man plays gitar like a man, put's all his emotions in and hits the bloody thing. His playing oozes style, his music real, full of life & soul.
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Son House is the Guitar God. This man plays gitar like a man, put's all his emotions in and hit's the bloody thing. His playing oozes style.
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fIRsTRATmAN 1 year ago
Son House is the greatest of all time. He is the reason I am the singer of our band. -Chris Casso - STD
STDtheBAND 1 year ago
Check out Bjørn Berge version, unforgettable cover
otonnessen 1 year ago
love his music...!!
suko2004 1 year ago
i dont even know how anybody can sing and play the guitar at the same time... and this song looks a little complex too
TheMourningPalace 1 year ago
Everybody should check out Bjørn Berge's version!
Tveity2 1 year ago
God Bless Son House
aeneas7652 1 year ago
the way he plays the guitar is soo cool!!!! hahaha!xx
Lolbabe222 1 year ago
didnt the white stripes do a cover of this. if so, double sick!
luvdaworldplz 1 year ago 2
@luvdaworldplz They did.
20Divine20 1 year ago
@luvdaworldplz
yeah they did, its a brilliant cover
ActiveStateOfMind 1 year ago
@ActiveStateOfMind And it's insane live.
leftyrock85 1 year ago
@luvdaworldplz ya they did.
bddb9 10 months ago
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4 people without souls
lookslikesquirrel 1 year ago
I think the white stripes cover this.
akbill2 1 year ago
@akbill2
They cover a load of songs because it's Jack's favorite blues guitarist.
acidcasual07 1 year ago
Impagable.
Maigenerasion 1 year ago
WYATTKOPP-You made some interesting observations. Among the other guitarists for whom House was the mentor, was Robert Johnson, if my memory serves. I think I read that in Lomax's excellent book, "The Land Where the Blues Began."
abrekutu 1 year ago
whats the year????
whats the guitar tunning????
ovelonse 1 year ago
@ovelonse I'm not sure about the year (around 66, likely), but Son House played in Open G.
BlindNickDando 1 year ago
@ovelonse 1960's i think..
and i heard somewhere that it was open G
shutup69er 1 year ago
@shutup69er just played along by myself, pretty shure this song is a G# scale, so iI'd guess its an open g# tuning
BeastFTW 1 year ago
@BeastFTW
I believe it's in open C, I could be wrong, but thats the tuning/key I play it in.
cockardo 1 year ago
@cockardo I tried playing it in open E tuning...I fail...just need to relate more...
steven8807 1 year ago
@shutup69er I concur it's open G,
it's a lot like Robert Johnson's Walkin Blues,
or Walkin blues is like it I should say, the riff and some lyrics
coilaintevenbuzzin 1 year ago
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@shutup69er I concur open G
it's a lot like robert johnson's walkin blues,
or walkin blues is like it i guess, with a subtler riff and only a few lyrics in common
coilaintevenbuzzin 1 year ago
One of the things that really amazes me is how lucky we are that this music was discovered by people who had the foresight to preserve it. Imagine all the beautiful music that was lost to the ages before Alan Lomax went all the way out into the Delta to record these artists. The Blues Hall of Fame really paid Lomax quite an honor by entering him into the Hall of Fame, this is an honor he rightly deserves was saving this music for us.
WYATTKOPP 1 year ago
Son House is one of the best guitarists of all time. This is the man who taught Muddy Waters and I think Muddy Waters is who influenced artists such as Jimi Hendrix. These guitarists from the Mississippi Delta like House and McDowall are the top guitarists of all time. Hendrix, Clapton, Dylan and any other guitarist you could think of would all likely tell you that these are the true masters of the guitar....
WYATTKOPP 1 year ago
@WYATTKOPP
Robert Johsnon watched Son House a lot while learning,.....very cool
CletusColtrane 1 year ago
anybody else notice that the spacing on the top string is closer than the rest? i wonder if that was a feature of those old steel resonators or if the bridge of his guitar was just fucked up.
zoso1 1 year ago
What key is he in???
feedboi 1 year ago
Wow! man!! why, as a black man, whos dad is a blues man, did I play rock music?
monkspank65 1 year ago
this is what you call: music...
(what happened to music the last 25 years? ;-(
MrBobcat1963 1 year ago
LEGENDARY
chuck1318 1 year ago
Coming of age in the 60's was very exciting, almost half the rock shows I went to had an old bluesman on the bill. Got to see Son House, Big Mama Thornton, Furry Lewis and many other of the great blues artist's that have had a continuing influence on the Blues Genre. Keep the blues alive. Go to your local clubs that have blues nights or just to a blues club.
muzsickman 1 year ago
Breathtaking.
rmcnabb 1 year ago
PURE SOUL AND EMOTION!!!
HDYaqui 1 year ago
Where did you got this footage from?
XanderMaas 1 year ago
My fucking idol
Niampazampabigband 1 year ago
IS SO COOL,HE'S PLAYING IN OPEN TUNING,THINK RY COODER BORROWED LOTS OF SON'S SOUND! VERY COOL!
RATKING10 1 year ago
Really well written JoeBlue727.
brandenmcollins 1 year ago
My friends make fun of these old blues players because in interviews they don't have good speaking skills and sometimes don't use words correctly but thats just how they were raised. Go to school for a few years, then learn to work a farm. They probably make fun of us because we piss away most of our youth sitting in a classroom listening to someone talk.
Gageisrasta 1 year ago 47
@Gageisrasta Yeah, old bluesmen were more sage than all schoolshildren together. Your friends are ridiculous.
tinpanalley67 1 year ago
@Gageisrasta Sounds like you need to find some better friends...
TheLordOfEltingville 11 months ago
@Gageisrasta As long as the point gets across, who cares? They usually have more emotion than the average white kid...who wastes his youth in a classroom, but he's too dumb to learn anything anyway
Noseheros 8 months ago
@Gageisrasta Amen!
bryantuten 8 months ago
Man I dig Son, he's the man!
toddallenhooper 1 year ago
Son is the man! I love this troop.
SECtennesseeSEC 1 year ago
A dobro is played with a slide and has very high action. Here he's playing a resonator guitar. They look similar and one could be setup as the other, but they are different.
Dronemaker 1 year ago
@Dronemaker I think - could be wrong - but 'Dobro' was one of the first companies to make resonator guitars, hence the term 'Dobro' being used as a catch-all for that style of guitar. However, Dobro-style resonators are more often played with the guitar flat on the player's lap and the left hand holding the slide/bottleneck over the top of the neck, as you might expect of a country player. (You can even get resonators designed specifically for this style, with a square neck!)
WhiteElephantLives 1 year ago
I think its D O B R O not drobo.
jrg45721 1 year ago
Anyone know if this live version ever made it to an album?
crapforbreakfast 1 year ago
what kind of guitar is that? i want one...
shanerob01934 1 year ago
@shanerob01934 it's a drobo.
yogialb 1 year ago
@yogialb thanks
shanerob01934 1 year ago
Son House was major influnce on the blues, it's a shame there aren't more videos of him. thanks for sharing this treasure.
Baddoggone 1 year ago
Happy birthday Son House!
Polde1243 1 year ago
amazing song. really opened my eyes to where all the music i've loved over the years has come from.
Mysta26 1 year ago
Hypnotic i love this song
Salha7 1 year ago
how old is this video?
yayadenial 1 year ago
@yayadenial It's probably from 1967.
Davis752 1 year ago
son house...its as if ur song was made for me...no...it was made for blues...for those feelin blue, hence the name. blues aint JUST for mellow an sulky type of fellings, its blue because of how raw it is.
the raw emotion this song has...no surprise its epic.
nzephier 1 year ago
es increible como canta son house!!! porque escuchando los covers cantados de este blues que hay en youtube todas las personas que se atreven a cantarla lucen realmente disminuidas
y es que al escuchar a son house este suena como si realmente estuviese recibiendo en ese mismo instante la carta y estuviese sintiendo con todas las fibras de su cuerpo la muerte de su amada
es una voz que suena a muerte y dolor expresadas de forma brutal ... supongo que eso es el blues ...
faunoram 1 year ago
God, this is so amazing.
metalxmindfreak 1 year ago
The way he sets his guitar down so gingerly at the end of the song, after just banging it to death, says all you need to know about how the Blues helped many blacks escape the Delta's sadistically harsh lifestyle down on Stoval Farm. (even if only temporarily)
joelzwilliams 1 year ago 6
Such a great song.
ObserveSolace 1 year ago
This guy's voice always amazed me. Like Howlin' Wolf, his singing is like something from another world.
fallspeed 1 year ago 2
It don't get any realer than this . . . .
bobdevo 2 years ago
unbelievable.
ThePoonce 2 years ago 3
no nuh awe ah fool? i dont undstand anything
gone555 2 years ago
Try Googling "Son House Death Letter". there are some fairly accurate lyrics there. Some of the words are a bit strange sounding to contemporary ears, but it's worth putting in the time to become familiar with the style. this is some of the world's great music and it's purely American. Happy listening.
leohenrimartin 1 year ago
@gone555 You know, I don't have a bit of trouble hearing the words he's singing; is it because I'm Southern, or because I'm old?
"I'm gonna change my way of living, so I don't have to cry no more"
Can you get any plainer than that?
bangwezl 1 year ago
both. :D
josht619 1 year ago
I reckon you're right.
bangwezl 1 year ago
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if you turn the volume off it looks like he cant play for shit
Gageisrasta 2 years ago
@Gageisrasta You folks that are negging Gagelrasta ain't really READING his comment, the upshot of which is 'when you turn the volume ON, he sounds like he plays for the angels'
bangwezl 1 year ago
Killer
LauryWard 2 years ago 2
great video!!!and i think that the white stripes made very nice cover of this song
osunlade86 2 years ago 7
Eddie "Son" House on " DEATH LETTER BLUES" absolutely proves beyond a shadow of a doubt , WE don't come up with these incredible ideas that happen. Sometimes though WE are blessed enough to be the conduit or medium through which they flow. The raw emotion & real conviction in his voice has and will continue to make me believe when you get it "right" , MUSIC CAN BE MAGIC, sometimes haunting, but STILL MAGIC!
MrDirtbagdean 2 years ago 4
I also believe that beyond a shadow of a doubt. Most people dont though, even many musicians, i know.
loren1283 2 years ago
This is Robert Johnson's area, but you don't hear enough about him. I heard him first through of all people, Eric Clapton. He's been long gone. Time takes all of us at some point. The research shows him being born early 20th century. Probably be well over 100 if alive today...At any rate. Great roots/blues music.
lovebeinamommy07 2 years ago
this guy is a god
Manglur 2 years ago 15
I play it in open G
Fififlan 2 years ago 4
actually, I think it's an open A, but you can get the same sound with an open G and capo up to the 2nd fret
wemblyfez 2 years ago
Low to high, DGDGBD is how I play it.
lulutalkingdolphin 2 years ago
That's all right, man!
cookmoore 2 years ago
what strumming technique is that??
dropxdeadxalex 2 years ago
its his technique.
hugleberthumperdink 2 years ago
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panchamkauns 2 years ago 2
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All he needs is a sexy drummer
MOJONIXION 2 years ago
Butterfly don't need no little propeller
snake don't need no legs
Blues don't need no drums.
raiun42 2 years ago 71
LOL :)
TheThroney 2 years ago
@raiun42 Blues just needs, the blues
dont need no microphone, dont even need a guitar, just a man with the blues, DEFINATLY dont need no autotue bullSHIT
thtmusicloser 1 year ago
Son House seems to accomplish the same warbling punctuation with his voice as he does on the guitar at the end of each musical phrase. Amazing blues artist, a real national treasure.
metacodger 2 years ago 3
Maybe sombody could tell me what tunning hes in?
loren1283 2 years ago
GBDGBD I think!
zackamundo22 2 years ago
Could be DADF#AD
Chernolapkin 2 years ago
It could be, but it's very unlikely, most delta blues was played in GBDGBD. DADF#AD is more of a contemporary tuning. Plus, he plays a b root, and it looks like it's on the open string, so.... One of the lower strings needs to be tuned to a b.
zackamundo22 2 years ago
Thank you.... I used to use DGDGBD for Open G and wsa never really happy with it.
Chernolapkin 2 years ago
Its DGDgbd a.k.a Spanish tunning, your describing a normal G chord (exept for the D on the trebble string) how you would make it when playing in standard tunning but thats not open G tunning.
FraJa1980 2 years ago
open g
musicjunkie1221 2 years ago