To the African American folks in this thread, believe it or not, us white folks get our hearts broke too. Since you are into labels I include my race.
Pain doesn't see in colors..I think it's ridiculous that some African Americans, posting on this thread are still riding the coat tails of something that never happended to them. Maybe it happened generations ago, and frankly, you were not there either. So stop cradling this "you can't possibly understand" mentality you are nursing. Everyone hurts.
This is the Blues people. If some little kid from Osaka or Paris or Sydney sits down and hears this song then becomes as mezmorized as I was the first time I heard it then they've caught the blues. It's like the best infection you can catch. Some people get it and some people don't. I've learned that culture means little these days and skin color means even less. The Blues started as a folk art by my Black ancestors, but its so much more than that now. It belongs to anybody who enjoys it.
@Odin029 Well said!! When something is this beautiful, this pure, it belongs to humankind. It represents the best in humanity. We will always remember where it started, and we will always thank your black ancestors for Blues and Jazz (A testament to their pain, strength to overcome injustice, their love for live, and their artistic greatness).
Puissance du blues... Qu'il soit joué par un black ou un blanc-bec.... C'est une musique spirituelle, elle explose du coeur, passe par une bonne guitare accordée en open... et fait danser l'esprit de l'auditeur en manque de rythme !
These delta blues musicians are so AWESOME! Charlie Patton, Willie brown, Bukka White, Skip James, Son House, Robert Johnson, John Lee hooker, If we could bring them again to live Justin beiber and lady gaga fans would crap thieir pants!
Not sure if I'm preaching to the choir here, but Lonnie Johnson was Robert J's biggest influence. Lots of great Lonnie Johnson music is available. Great sounding recordings too. That guy was like butter.
I guess now I'll go see if I can find any Lonnie Johnson on you Tube:) Hope so.
back then black people were put in jail all the time on false charges and forced to work on chaingangs. If they talked back looked at a white women or were to tired or sick to keep working they were whipped like animals. The scars are from the lashing of a bull whip.
Killer. What are the antecedents to his style of playing, if any? Crazy as this sounds, he reminds me of Jimi Hendrix in the way he takes total domination of the instrument.
@trignoriver1 Son House played a lot with Charlie Patton, even recorded with him, and was influenced by Patton's style. Acoustic blues guitar evolved throughout many areas of the south, the Mississippi Delta being the most famous and arguably the most prolific. Look for Lonnie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie McTell. Robert Johnsaon was a contemporary who also developed a killer guitar style.
@thailow117 Yeah it is. It's kinda everywhere in his music. If anything, he rips off from other bluesman. I don't know. It's kinda hard to avoid really. Maybe you're just listening to the wrong songs.
@tarlnak hip hop was derived from mostly reggae and ska type musics and rhythms. I believe I read in a book once somewhere that one of the first american djs of hip hop was actually from Jamaica involved in the Kingston music scene.
@xXsmileyyssXx hip hop comes from the breaks in soul,funk, and disco.
Kool Herc was Jamaican and began looping the breaks through mixing. To me my opinion, A modern progression of blues and hip hop fusion is Rich Boy's "Boy Looka Here"
Saddest blues ever. What a strong man to shoulder the burden of the generations of african americans in his music. i dont know how many people have the will power to real feel all that pain. surely, not many.
The blues is awsome! Its great to see the youth listening to the blues, because when I die I want other people to pass on the blues. Son House is my favorite blues artist. I took a class in college called folklore of the blues and I learned so much the instructor was an apprentice to Johnny Johnson who is the father of Rock-n-Roll from my home state of WV.
The blues is awsome! Its great to see the youth listening to the blues, because when I die I want other people to pass on the blues. Son House is my favorite blues artist. I took a class in college called folklore of the blues and I learned so much the instructor was an apprentice to Johnny Johnson who is the father of Rock-n-Roll from my home state of WV.
I broke down into tears today while thinking about this song today. How could the human race be so divided? How could they whip their fellow men and women? How could they beat and kill and own fellow humans? The hatred only saddens me.
@Mulwany Why is that sad? Maybe you don't appreciate Kanye's music, but hip hop is the only genre that adopted the spirit of the bluesman rather than to just steal their craft. To be perfectly honest, as much as I hate Kanye as an individual, he is just as much of a musical genius as son house. I love the blues AND its great grandson, hip hop. If you open your eyes, you'll see that the attitude and spirit is the same, it just speaks to a different generation.
@Benherrington In no way, shape or form does blues even remotely contribute to hip hop. I gotta agree with rinkichamkar- blues is a personal thing, anyone who has 10 or 15 years of just general life experience, can listen to blues and feel calm, understand and relate almost immideately with what the artist is putting out there. Hip hop is a kind of running joke, its designed to be relative to people born in urban society, but all it does is glorify crime, or greed, or corruption. It doesn't
@BleedCountry1 I don't think hip hop glorifies crime or greed anymore than blues glorifies getting drunk, shooting people and leaving your wife. It's story telling. Like all music. Some is good, some is bad. Rap's not really my taste either. But I dislike when people belittle it. Of course radio-friendly hip hop sucks. Most radio-friendly music sucks. That's why I'm on youtube watching Son House. If you want to hear good country, rock, rap, etc, you have to work to find it.
@Benherrington speak to a different generation, it influences young, and easily influenced individuals who eat it up and treat it as a fundamental truth. Blues speaks a truth anyone can relate to. Adults, people who have been through enough of life to recognize hip hop for what it is, and enjoy it as music are making a decision. Hip hop cannot save, or reach anyone, its just got an even flow, and an unrealistic lyrical base thats easy to swallow, and enjoyable to hear. It is not blues.
I believe black music (or rather music sung by blacks) went from a personal thing to social commentary. Son House or Skip James, the underlying theme was a magical mix of sadness, passion and (simply put) "soul". That element is forever lost.
Woah! Ain't black culture? It's damn near the backbone of black culture! I can feel some Celtic music, but it doesn't mean that it's not Irish culture. Appreciate, don't appropriate, please.
@Benherrington I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you, I think you misunderstood me. I'm only saying that we ALL get the blues, regardless of color. I'm a completely sold out blues lover, not tryin' to misappropriate anything from it's origin. We all know that black americans made blues and jazz what it is....
@toddallenhooper Hmm... Black people weren't the first group to collectively find themselves in a horrible situation. I can think of a Medieval English Serf feeling somewhat like a sharecropper in turn of the century Mississippi, but when that English Serf picked up a lute and sang... it didn't sound anything like Son House Charlie Patton or Blind Lemon Jefferson. The music is for everybody around the world to play and enjoy, but its origins have a time, a place, and a specific people
@toddallenhooper How is blues not black culture when it's born out of the historical experience of Black people? Struggle is not uniquely Black but how Black struggle manifested itself through art in America IS unique. Just because you appreciate Blues music, listening to it or even playing it, doesn't mean it's yours.
@toddallenhooper Was it Black culture when it was the sorrow songs and field hollers oF the slaves? Was it Black when it was the chants and songs of Africa? Yes. It was Black before the Blues existed and its Black now in its manifestations of Soul, R&B, Jazz, Rock and Roll and Hip-Hop. It's a part of a musical heritage and history that are not a part of.
@toddallenhooper Please stop claiming ownership of something that does not belong to you. As James Cone said in his book The Spirituals and The Blues, "Black music must be LIVED before it can be understood."
@archer1949 You can't lose claim to something that is part of your cultural and historical continuum. And Hip Hop isn't a minstrel show, what you're talking about is the result of corporations commodifying Black culture and selling in to surburband white kids, and that's not Hip Hop. Hip Hop is a part of the Blues tradition, the Black music tradtion that is "an artistic rebellion against the humiliating deadness of Western culture" that James Cone talks about. Blues and rap cant be seperated
@passthepick That`s true, although understood is the wrong term, too rational, felt would be the right expression. Some never feel it, because they never felt anything real.
@jcmangan I think you're being too abstract. What I'm saying, and what I mean by "felt" is that the Blues can't be truly understood unless it's understood from the context of the enslavement of African people in America. If you're not a part of the group that created the art form, your understanding of it will always be limited, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy it. I enjoy tamales, but that doesn't mean I can missapropriate mexican folk cuisine and lay claim to it just becuase I like it
@passthepick Yes now i got your ponit, but that would mean that their can`t be no great white blues players out there, but think of Johnny Winter, John Mayall or Seasick Steve... so it`s not a thing about the races, it`s still a thing - pardon me - about the feeling...
@jcmangan From my perspective, everyone you just named SING the blues well, which is fine. But that doesn't change the fact that theyre praciticing a Black at form even though they're White musicians. Just like there are whites who practice Vodoun, Santeria and Candomble, the fact that they are white doesnt change the fact that they're practicing African religions. Just because white bluesmen practice Black art dosent change the cultural matrix that birthed the art, which is slavery.
it's almost an transcendental experience watching this. Son House turns into a demon when he starts singing. I believe this session is/was the most intense thing you'll ever see in all blues. Could compare it to robert johnson performing preachin' blues wich would be the holy grail of the blues.
how the fuck did amazin music like this go to shit music of today ... fuck me its sad, im gonna write a blues song about it haha peace, cheers for postin
this is not "Levee Camp Blues" aka "Levee Camp Moan". This song is "I Had A Woman In Hughes" recorded for the Camera Three show from 1964 that Son did with Buddy Guy. Son played two tunes (with Jerry Ricks on second guitar) that was released on Vestapol DVD. This clip is the last tune and the credits for the show roll over them playing. This show was shot in color but the original tapes have not been found and all Camera Three had was a b/w kinescope.
@severlyn87 He would have chosen an other bad-ass 'authentic' blues-man to web into his image. musically there is no trace of blues influence in white's playing. garage bands, detroit bands in particular, obscure 60s sounds, and so forth. he is a record collector, so obviously he stumbled upon house. the record he refers to in the movie for example is house' recording for columbia in 1964.
@thailow117 True he wouldve found another blues artist but his style would have turned out completly different. I disagree when you say Whites music is not influenced musically by the blues, take Ball & Biscuit for example. You can definatley hear his true love for the blues in his live guitar solos and slide playing.
jack white IS nowhere today. someone like son house did not mind to be a poor tractor driver or to disappear from the music scene, but Jack White conforms to what the misdirected music industry expects of him. Deep down i like to believe that jack likes blues the most, but the poor reception for his first, mostly blues-inspired album made his latter albums become generic desperation
@TrohanB man, im not tryin to say jack isnt just out for money, or that the record industry is is 99% crap, but theres only so many son house covers jack can do. as a musician you gotta brach out and draw on your influences, but do your own thing. a great deal of his more recent music is heavily influenced by blues, and he cites Son houses "Grinnin in your face" as the song that inspired him to play music himself.
This is about way more than music. This man and all the blues men of his era where using music to communicate, to bare their souls. to let out the pain and suffering of their every day lives. None of you have, or ever will, feel the utter hoplessness that the black man of this generation felt. This is why most of you can't comprehend this music. You have to live the blues to play the blues (or understand it).
as a white guy, I can only say, listen to anyone black (sorry if that offends anyone) - that includes Keef, but not Mick Taylor, Ginger Baker but not Keith Moon. Follow the history from the Delta to Chicago to Motown... you'll get it really quick, I'm sure...
LustForHate Leave Son House alone this man was one of the best J.J. entertainer of his time people use to come from miles around just to hear this man perform on Friday and Saturday night in the old days .
So Muddy Waters didn't know what he was talking about when he called House the greatest blues guitarist of all time? Glad we could wait long enough to have LfH's thoughtful, considered opinion. Please, take all the "good singing" and wank along to American Idol.
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You listen to Santana and Stevie Ray Vaughan, you obviously have no taste in "music". Superficial technical guitar wanking with NO songwriting skills. These bozos never wrote a good song!
As for Son House, it just sounds like crap. Sloppy guitar playing and bad singing!
@LustForHate You can´t say that... it´s just a different music. Stevie Ray Vaughan as Santana are masters of music... playing guitar with soul, like this man.
Santana and Vaughan, masters of music? No. They are masters of technical guitar playing only. They are bad musician because they can't write good songs or music. It's not more than superficial technical music. Just because Son House sings like a whinner, and it's souless. His style is/was predictable and calculated.
@LustForHate I agree about Son House. But let me tell you that music is not only write good songs. And also playing blues you know that you dont need to be a great musician to compose something. You are just talking about youre preference... Santana and Vaughan arent bad musicians. They write good songs or music too. The way that you play the music is not superficial.. its the base of the song.The way you play its important... not just a superficial think. And if you like blues yo should agree.
@LustForHate You are so hot when you talk about how much you know about stuff. You are the coolest block of text ever. I'm glad that you watch videos you don't like and comment on them because it's something I find very attractive. Keep it up, you sexy troll, you :)
predictable?! Nobody played like he did before him. Try not to be time-centric. Vaughn a bad musician? Certainly not Miles Davis, Coltrane, Art Tatum or guitarists like Django or Metheny, but certainly not bad! As far as blues guitar goes he was one of the greats, displaying everything great about the genre; passionate, raw, lots of flair and amazing, tasteful technique. All great musicians are composers?! Armstrong vs Ellington? Hendrix vs The Beatles? Paganini vs Beethoven? I think not.
dont be hatin all rap now, mainstream rap is pretty much gibberish, but then so is most other mainstream stuff right? I dunno much about rap, but I like a rapper called k-os. peeps like him lets me have some hope for new music. why are you guys comparin this to rap anyways? cus its black?
One of the big differences between the music of folks like Son House and the artists of today is a thing called irony. The Blues is dripping with irony. This element along with technology is one of the reasons today's music come across kinda' sterile. Wouldn't you just love to hear rappers be ironic as oppose to mysoginistic?
Grew up in the south singing gospel in the church choir and playin sax in concert band. This man is the truth and also notice the native american tribal tones he produces also he layin his powerful hand on that damu guuuuuiiiiiiitarrrr.
Iam a steel guitarist.Cant think of antything worse than steel/slide playing without intornation.
But the way Son House drives that slide down the strings its so right.One of the most sceary and beautyful evil sounds i ever heard.Cant get enough of him.Been listening to him for 21 years.Its the same with Muddy Waters.The influece of Son House on muddy is even greater than Robert Johnson.This aint no flirty Rock music.This is the real thing
i dont think ill be able to ever listen to son house ever again. his music is just too dang sad. of all the blues ive heard nothing has hit me harder to the bone than son house. nothing.
L2tastebrah I didn't like blues and jazz when I was a teenager finding it rather ugly, as I've got older I appreciate it more -Al of Yahoo Group's Beat_Happening thread.
THESE REAL BLUES MEN ARE IMITATED BUT CAN NEVER BE DUPLICATED
fIRsTRATmAN 1 week ago
THIS IS THE REAL BLUES & THE REAL BLUES GUITARIST
fIRsTRATmAN 1 week ago
This isn't long enough.
I. Need. More
abcdlovexoxo 3 weeks ago
hahahaha, hell yeah
igorgirotto 1 month ago
wow1what agreat performance,this makes me shake down in my bones
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wanna know the blues, try Son House!!!
slapbush 2 months ago
Quien fue el anormal que vio este video y puso que no le gustaba???!!!
chimpson1993 2 months ago
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TheMadCaptainMusic 3 months ago
anyone know the year this was recorded?
1234Bcbc 3 months ago
1:30 - nonsense, it's very easy to love someone that [don't] love you. It's just painful.
disneypassholder 3 months ago
this is SO great
robgungor 4 months ago
he's amazing
robgungor 4 months ago
P.S. Slavery sucked.
davelvetcatfish 4 months ago
To the African American folks in this thread, believe it or not, us white folks get our hearts broke too. Since you are into labels I include my race.
davelvetcatfish 4 months ago
@davelvetcatfish what do you mean by "labels"?
BongJuice1 1 month ago
Pain doesn't see in colors..I think it's ridiculous that some African Americans, posting on this thread are still riding the coat tails of something that never happended to them. Maybe it happened generations ago, and frankly, you were not there either. So stop cradling this "you can't possibly understand" mentality you are nursing. Everyone hurts.
davelvetcatfish 4 months ago
This is the Blues people. If some little kid from Osaka or Paris or Sydney sits down and hears this song then becomes as mezmorized as I was the first time I heard it then they've caught the blues. It's like the best infection you can catch. Some people get it and some people don't. I've learned that culture means little these days and skin color means even less. The Blues started as a folk art by my Black ancestors, but its so much more than that now. It belongs to anybody who enjoys it.
Odin029 5 months ago
@Odin029 Well said!! When something is this beautiful, this pure, it belongs to humankind. It represents the best in humanity. We will always remember where it started, and we will always thank your black ancestors for Blues and Jazz (A testament to their pain, strength to overcome injustice, their love for live, and their artistic greatness).
Edu1963ful 3 weeks ago
I am moved by his true passion!! Real soul!
CherylSmithOriginals 5 months ago
Only one word: BLUES
SebaJB82 6 months ago
Astonishing!
OperaOfViolence 6 months ago 4
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ratstompmusic 7 months ago
I feel it.
Gerling007 8 months ago
BEAUTIFUL!!!
MrBillHicks1 8 months ago
Son House is the man.
wojack1000 8 months ago
that is one hell of a paradise
mvelvet100 8 months ago
It was the year of real music.
onesadsong 9 months ago 6
Anybody know what year this was?
oldschooljamz87 9 months ago
Puissance du blues... Qu'il soit joué par un black ou un blanc-bec.... C'est une musique spirituelle, elle explose du coeur, passe par une bonne guitare accordée en open... et fait danser l'esprit de l'auditeur en manque de rythme !
Ghaal666 9 months ago
He should be the icon of Delta Blues. NOT Robert Johnson!
rfw45 9 months ago
@rfw45 icon of Delta Blues?? WTF brother?
Thesavagerebel 9 months ago
This is so amazing!!
adamjhulk 9 months ago
What's this video from? Some documentary or what?
2109MI 9 months ago
THE house!!!
sttemami 10 months ago
@Thunderfingers999 Well, the blues and classical.
AEFic 10 months ago
There'd be no rock, no punk, no alternative, no rap and no anything if it weren't for the blues
Devilsblood 11 months ago
Depression, misery, and anger, this is the blues.
panbread89 1 year ago
These delta blues musicians are so AWESOME! Charlie Patton, Willie brown, Bukka White, Skip James, Son House, Robert Johnson, John Lee hooker, If we could bring them again to live Justin beiber and lady gaga fans would crap thieir pants!
voodoochild53 1 year ago 2
@MILWAUKEEthriller08
Just thought I would mention this.
Not sure if I'm preaching to the choir here, but Lonnie Johnson was Robert J's biggest influence. Lots of great Lonnie Johnson music is available. Great sounding recordings too. That guy was like butter.
I guess now I'll go see if I can find any Lonnie Johnson on you Tube:) Hope so.
bumpthumper 1 year ago
so much better than the K-Pop playing ALL OVER THE DAMN CITY! Not the kind of music on my mp3 player, but authentic shit always kills
Rahavin1 1 year ago
He's fucking shredding on that guitar.
lulztr0n 1 year ago 2
The most emotional bluesman among Robert Johnson i ever seen or heard
feverrecords 1 year ago
Son House plays gitar like a man
fIRsTRATmAN 1 year ago
@fIRsTRATmAN
Mr. House was cooler than shit !
(Pardon the crude expression)
NorthTulsaBoy 1 year ago
5 dislikes?... must be justin bieber fans
butters496 1 year ago 23
@butters496 and the other two where lookin a little fly like a G-6..
thanotron1222 10 months ago
@butters496 Or In flames fans maybe?
OneyedWhiteOwl 5 months ago
jack white was the one wielding the whip is the rumour
beatvampire 1 year ago
could someone tell me please what happened to that guy's back at 1.40?
nickersthekid 1 year ago
@nickersthekid
back then black people were put in jail all the time on false charges and forced to work on chaingangs. If they talked back looked at a white women or were to tired or sick to keep working they were whipped like animals. The scars are from the lashing of a bull whip.
drifterdoo 1 year ago
incredible.
philserious 1 year ago
@islandblueser u r a fag...
NeverGoFullRetard 1 year ago
@NeverGoFullRetard i love your username
nymetsrock 1 year ago
Killer. What are the antecedents to his style of playing, if any? Crazy as this sounds, he reminds me of Jimi Hendrix in the way he takes total domination of the instrument.
trignoriver1 1 year ago
@trignoriver1 Try searchin for the video "Islam and Blues - Muslims got the blues" Pretty much tells it.
islandblueser 1 year ago
@trignoriver1 Son House played a lot with Charlie Patton, even recorded with him, and was influenced by Patton's style. Acoustic blues guitar evolved throughout many areas of the south, the Mississippi Delta being the most famous and arguably the most prolific. Look for Lonnie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie McTell. Robert Johnsaon was a contemporary who also developed a killer guitar style.
speedbagkorea 1 year ago
THIS IS THE BLUES I MEAN THEE BLUES!!!!!!! One and only that down and out bathing in a foot tub on the carport blues.
blackmale78 1 year ago
Old Son House singin the blues...killer stuff!
SECtennesseeSEC 1 year ago
Do you get were the rolling stones took their version of little red rooster from,
southerncelts 1 year ago
An artist with this type of feeling-Blues or not-is very rare indeed.... Incredible!
boxingin 1 year ago
A FUCKING MEN
jashuwah 1 year ago
Thanks for uploading! I love Son and the Delta Blues.
SECtennesseeSEC 1 year ago
@thailow117 Yeah it is. It's kinda everywhere in his music. If anything, he rips off from other bluesman. I don't know. It's kinda hard to avoid really. Maybe you're just listening to the wrong songs.
MultiSagitta 1 year ago
@Mulwany damn right...
archVille1979 1 year ago
Son is singing about the backside of The American Dream. About the deep south, not so many years ago.
tontokurt 1 year ago
Thank you Son House...........you give it truth!
budmuth 1 year ago
Stunning, only word i can seem to type
5thcorps 1 year ago
@tarlnak hip hop was derived from mostly reggae and ska type musics and rhythms. I believe I read in a book once somewhere that one of the first american djs of hip hop was actually from Jamaica involved in the Kingston music scene.
xXsmileyyssXx 1 year ago
@xXsmileyyssXx hip hop comes from the breaks in soul,funk, and disco.
Kool Herc was Jamaican and began looping the breaks through mixing. To me my opinion, A modern progression of blues and hip hop fusion is Rich Boy's "Boy Looka Here"
alabamamichimeko 1 year ago
Saddest blues ever. What a strong man to shoulder the burden of the generations of african americans in his music. i dont know how many people have the will power to real feel all that pain. surely, not many.
shalabi84 1 year ago
The blues is awsome! Its great to see the youth listening to the blues, because when I die I want other people to pass on the blues. Son House is my favorite blues artist. I took a class in college called folklore of the blues and I learned so much the instructor was an apprentice to Johnny Johnson who is the father of Rock-n-Roll from my home state of WV.
bmccauley3 1 year ago
The blues is awsome! Its great to see the youth listening to the blues, because when I die I want other people to pass on the blues. Son House is my favorite blues artist. I took a class in college called folklore of the blues and I learned so much the instructor was an apprentice to Johnny Johnson who is the father of Rock-n-Roll from my home state of WV.
bmccauley3 1 year ago
im 15 yrs old and thought i knew what blues was...son house is a blues god!
japanesethunder 1 year ago
boy, that right there is some real down south muthafuckin music.
treymartin3334 1 year ago
I broke down into tears today while thinking about this song today. How could the human race be so divided? How could they whip their fellow men and women? How could they beat and kill and own fellow humans? The hatred only saddens me.
RBBlues 1 year ago
Son House man blues king.
SonnyREast 1 year ago
@Mulwany Why is that sad? Maybe you don't appreciate Kanye's music, but hip hop is the only genre that adopted the spirit of the bluesman rather than to just steal their craft. To be perfectly honest, as much as I hate Kanye as an individual, he is just as much of a musical genius as son house. I love the blues AND its great grandson, hip hop. If you open your eyes, you'll see that the attitude and spirit is the same, it just speaks to a different generation.
Benherrington 1 year ago
@Benherrington In no way, shape or form does blues even remotely contribute to hip hop. I gotta agree with rinkichamkar- blues is a personal thing, anyone who has 10 or 15 years of just general life experience, can listen to blues and feel calm, understand and relate almost immideately with what the artist is putting out there. Hip hop is a kind of running joke, its designed to be relative to people born in urban society, but all it does is glorify crime, or greed, or corruption. It doesn't
BleedCountry1 1 year ago
@BleedCountry1 I don't think hip hop glorifies crime or greed anymore than blues glorifies getting drunk, shooting people and leaving your wife. It's story telling. Like all music. Some is good, some is bad. Rap's not really my taste either. But I dislike when people belittle it. Of course radio-friendly hip hop sucks. Most radio-friendly music sucks. That's why I'm on youtube watching Son House. If you want to hear good country, rock, rap, etc, you have to work to find it.
JohnRC4 1 year ago 3
@Benherrington speak to a different generation, it influences young, and easily influenced individuals who eat it up and treat it as a fundamental truth. Blues speaks a truth anyone can relate to. Adults, people who have been through enough of life to recognize hip hop for what it is, and enjoy it as music are making a decision. Hip hop cannot save, or reach anyone, its just got an even flow, and an unrealistic lyrical base thats easy to swallow, and enjoyable to hear. It is not blues.
BleedCountry1 1 year ago
he really was on fire this very very day! check out the death letter blues version!
SirFrancisBurton 1 year ago
@Mulwany,
True dat.
I believe black music (or rather music sung by blacks) went from a personal thing to social commentary. Son House or Skip James, the underlying theme was a magical mix of sadness, passion and (simply put) "soul". That element is forever lost.
rinkichamkar 1 year ago
"The Son House Movie," starring Morgan Freeman... pass it on...
meadowmarc89 1 year ago
talk about Kurt Cobain being a tortured soul!!...this guy was screwed up man...but still amazing
WeRockHard3211 1 year ago
blues ain't black culture, it's bein' in touch with your own soul, and lettin' hardship, heartache, and life, come out of you....
toddallenhooper 1 year ago 25
@toddallenhooper
Woah! Ain't black culture? It's damn near the backbone of black culture! I can feel some Celtic music, but it doesn't mean that it's not Irish culture. Appreciate, don't appropriate, please.
Benherrington 1 year ago
@Benherrington I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you, I think you misunderstood me. I'm only saying that we ALL get the blues, regardless of color. I'm a completely sold out blues lover, not tryin' to misappropriate anything from it's origin. We all know that black americans made blues and jazz what it is....
toddallenhooper 1 year ago
@toddallenhooper Hmm... Black people weren't the first group to collectively find themselves in a horrible situation. I can think of a Medieval English Serf feeling somewhat like a sharecropper in turn of the century Mississippi, but when that English Serf picked up a lute and sang... it didn't sound anything like Son House Charlie Patton or Blind Lemon Jefferson. The music is for everybody around the world to play and enjoy, but its origins have a time, a place, and a specific people
Odin029 9 months ago 3
@toddallenhooper How is blues not black culture when it's born out of the historical experience of Black people? Struggle is not uniquely Black but how Black struggle manifested itself through art in America IS unique. Just because you appreciate Blues music, listening to it or even playing it, doesn't mean it's yours.
passthepick 8 months ago
@toddallenhooper Was it Black culture when it was the sorrow songs and field hollers oF the slaves? Was it Black when it was the chants and songs of Africa? Yes. It was Black before the Blues existed and its Black now in its manifestations of Soul, R&B, Jazz, Rock and Roll and Hip-Hop. It's a part of a musical heritage and history that are not a part of.
passthepick 8 months ago
@toddallenhooper Please stop claiming ownership of something that does not belong to you. As James Cone said in his book The Spirituals and The Blues, "Black music must be LIVED before it can be understood."
passthepick 8 months ago
@passthepick I don't know. It seems to me Blacks lost claim to this music, REAL music when they started preferring that phony Rap Minstrel show crap.
archer1949 7 months ago
@archer1949 I mean, are you seriously comparing T-Pain to this?
archer1949 7 months ago
@archer1949 You can't lose claim to something that is part of your cultural and historical continuum. And Hip Hop isn't a minstrel show, what you're talking about is the result of corporations commodifying Black culture and selling in to surburband white kids, and that's not Hip Hop. Hip Hop is a part of the Blues tradition, the Black music tradtion that is "an artistic rebellion against the humiliating deadness of Western culture" that James Cone talks about. Blues and rap cant be seperated
passthepick 7 months ago
@passthepick That`s true, although understood is the wrong term, too rational, felt would be the right expression. Some never feel it, because they never felt anything real.
jcmangan 7 months ago
@jcmangan I think you're being too abstract. What I'm saying, and what I mean by "felt" is that the Blues can't be truly understood unless it's understood from the context of the enslavement of African people in America. If you're not a part of the group that created the art form, your understanding of it will always be limited, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy it. I enjoy tamales, but that doesn't mean I can missapropriate mexican folk cuisine and lay claim to it just becuase I like it
passthepick 7 months ago
@passthepick Yes now i got your ponit, but that would mean that their can`t be no great white blues players out there, but think of Johnny Winter, John Mayall or Seasick Steve... so it`s not a thing about the races, it`s still a thing - pardon me - about the feeling...
jcmangan 7 months ago
@jcmangan From my perspective, everyone you just named SING the blues well, which is fine. But that doesn't change the fact that theyre praciticing a Black at form even though they're White musicians. Just like there are whites who practice Vodoun, Santeria and Candomble, the fact that they are white doesnt change the fact that they're practicing African religions. Just because white bluesmen practice Black art dosent change the cultural matrix that birthed the art, which is slavery.
passthepick 7 months ago
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igessthsisgrwnup 7 months ago
it's almost an transcendental experience watching this. Son House turns into a demon when he starts singing. I believe this session is/was the most intense thing you'll ever see in all blues. Could compare it to robert johnson performing preachin' blues wich would be the holy grail of the blues.
buffalobilly 1 year ago
how the fuck did amazin music like this go to shit music of today ... fuck me its sad, im gonna write a blues song about it haha peace, cheers for postin
satan666himself 1 year ago 2
what a voice , superb
sdenny 1 year ago
Oh don't be such a drama queen.
thebouleoffools 1 year ago
what a beautiful video, just soul-crushing
neilismyusername 1 year ago
I've never seen anyone show such emotion in my life...
MAhee 1 year ago
the real shit
yirmyahfox 1 year ago
blues with slides adds more character to the song. Very southern american style in it, I think.
totalmentemad 1 year ago
He must have the bloodiest fingers in blues
CanucksSuck 1 year ago
the pack with the devil greate
bigwillhenk 1 year ago
Happy birthday Son House!
Polde1243 2 years ago 2
this is not "Levee Camp Blues" aka "Levee Camp Moan". This song is "I Had A Woman In Hughes" recorded for the Camera Three show from 1964 that Son did with Buddy Guy. Son played two tunes (with Jerry Ricks on second guitar) that was released on Vestapol DVD. This clip is the last tune and the credits for the show roll over them playing. This show was shot in color but the original tapes have not been found and all Camera Three had was a b/w kinescope.
slashmc 2 years ago
this is way more than sounds coming out of this man. when this man holds a guitar, he is turned inside out. love it :P
musicyouri 2 years ago 4
agreed!
GeraldP1983 2 years ago
Jack White would be nowhere today if not for this man
severlyn87 2 years ago 49
@severlyn87 He would have chosen an other bad-ass 'authentic' blues-man to web into his image. musically there is no trace of blues influence in white's playing. garage bands, detroit bands in particular, obscure 60s sounds, and so forth. he is a record collector, so obviously he stumbled upon house. the record he refers to in the movie for example is house' recording for columbia in 1964.
thailow117 1 year ago
@thailow117 True he wouldve found another blues artist but his style would have turned out completly different. I disagree when you say Whites music is not influenced musically by the blues, take Ball & Biscuit for example. You can definatley hear his true love for the blues in his live guitar solos and slide playing.
severlyn87 1 year ago
@severlyn87 Who's that son of a gun?
Upinsmokemate 1 year ago
@severlyn87 a lot of musicians or so called guitarists would be nowhere if not for this man..
alterdion 1 year ago
@alterdion is jack white not a guitarist?
WhyIAm7 1 year ago
@WhyIAm7 of course he is...maybe among the best... Influenced by Son House but not stayed there.....that's
what makes him what he is and not Son House.
alterdion 1 year ago
@severlyn87
He's nowhere now.
NorthTulsaBoy 1 year ago
@NorthTulsaBoy I'm guessing he's in USA right now. But it's only a guess.
streetgeezer 1 year ago
@streetgeezer
Heh.
NorthTulsaBoy 1 year ago
Jack White would be the first to agree!
rodg1775 11 months ago
@severlyn87
jack white IS nowhere today. someone like son house did not mind to be a poor tractor driver or to disappear from the music scene, but Jack White conforms to what the misdirected music industry expects of him. Deep down i like to believe that jack likes blues the most, but the poor reception for his first, mostly blues-inspired album made his latter albums become generic desperation
TrohanB 10 months ago
@TrohanB man, im not tryin to say jack isnt just out for money, or that the record industry is is 99% crap, but theres only so many son house covers jack can do. as a musician you gotta brach out and draw on your influences, but do your own thing. a great deal of his more recent music is heavily influenced by blues, and he cites Son houses "Grinnin in your face" as the song that inspired him to play music himself.
coheed51679 10 months ago
Do any of you have a clue?
This is about way more than music. This man and all the blues men of his era where using music to communicate, to bare their souls. to let out the pain and suffering of their every day lives. None of you have, or ever will, feel the utter hoplessness that the black man of this generation felt. This is why most of you can't comprehend this music. You have to live the blues to play the blues (or understand it).
0912mnb 2 years ago 4
beautifully put but i believe good people CAN empathise with suffering especially when it is so wrong. and we can all appreciate the music.
Love Robin
robin195959 2 years ago 3
What have you gone through to understand this genre?
hipppiman 2 years ago
f**k me, I've been listening to the blues for more than 40 years, and I've only just turned on to Son House!
Genius...
gumbootuk 2 years ago 16
That, my friend, is one of the biggest shames I've ever heard.
REMimms 2 years ago
@gumbootuk can you recommend what you've listened to so far for 40 years?
im just a sophmore in college trying to lose my soul
lkjhgfdsa954 1 year ago
@lkjhgfdsa954
as a white guy, I can only say, listen to anyone black (sorry if that offends anyone) - that includes Keef, but not Mick Taylor, Ginger Baker but not Keith Moon. Follow the history from the Delta to Chicago to Motown... you'll get it really quick, I'm sure...
gumbootuk 1 year ago
@gumbootuk That's like rowing down a river your entire life and never finding the source.
Odin029 1 year ago
@Odin029 Yeah LOL, tho' not really the source - that's way back in Africa, but sure, a major major stepping stone...
gumbootuk 1 year ago
@gumbootuk Must not have been listening hard enough?
mailmanofdeth 1 year ago
I'm right there with you. Had some exposure but never fully explored. Awesome.
bumpthumper 1 year ago
@LustForGays...sorry i mean Hate
Clearly dropped when you where a baby, that's why you can't appreciate Son House's genius.
luvjakandned 2 years ago
LustForHate Leave Son House alone this man was one of the best J.J. entertainer of his time people use to come from miles around just to hear this man perform on Friday and Saturday night in the old days .
ericackson 2 years ago
So Muddy Waters didn't know what he was talking about when he called House the greatest blues guitarist of all time? Glad we could wait long enough to have LfH's thoughtful, considered opinion. Please, take all the "good singing" and wank along to American Idol.
mvandenh 2 years ago
Seriously.
KevoBlues88 2 years ago
Great performance...very raw.
Anybody knows where this recording is from.
Love the movements off that right arm
silenus74 2 years ago
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Sounds like a drunk uncle trying to play guitar and sing on new years eve! Awful!
LustForHate 2 years ago
A drunk uncle TRYING to play guitar? Get your head checked you imbecile.
Nangus01 2 years ago
Idiot. You obviously don't know much about music.
KevoBlues88 2 years ago
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You listen to Santana and Stevie Ray Vaughan, you obviously have no taste in "music". Superficial technical guitar wanking with NO songwriting skills. These bozos never wrote a good song!
As for Son House, it just sounds like crap. Sloppy guitar playing and bad singing!
LustForHate 2 years ago
Wow you're clueless. Must have been dropped on your head as a baby...
KevoBlues88 2 years ago
@LustForHate You can´t say that... it´s just a different music. Stevie Ray Vaughan as Santana are masters of music... playing guitar with soul, like this man.
Stone1944 2 years ago
Santana and Vaughan, masters of music? No. They are masters of technical guitar playing only. They are bad musician because they can't write good songs or music. It's not more than superficial technical music. Just because Son House sings like a whinner, and it's souless. His style is/was predictable and calculated.
LustForHate 2 years ago
@LustForHate I agree about Son House. But let me tell you that music is not only write good songs. And also playing blues you know that you dont need to be a great musician to compose something. You are just talking about youre preference... Santana and Vaughan arent bad musicians. They write good songs or music too. The way that you play the music is not superficial.. its the base of the song.The way you play its important... not just a superficial think. And if you like blues yo should agree.
Stone1944 2 years ago
@LustForHate You are so hot when you talk about how much you know about stuff. You are the coolest block of text ever. I'm glad that you watch videos you don't like and comment on them because it's something I find very attractive. Keep it up, you sexy troll, you :)
Cassidyshadow 2 years ago
Thank you so much for the compliments!
LustForHate 2 years ago
predictable?! Nobody played like he did before him. Try not to be time-centric. Vaughn a bad musician? Certainly not Miles Davis, Coltrane, Art Tatum or guitarists like Django or Metheny, but certainly not bad! As far as blues guitar goes he was one of the greats, displaying everything great about the genre; passionate, raw, lots of flair and amazing, tasteful technique. All great musicians are composers?! Armstrong vs Ellington? Hendrix vs The Beatles? Paganini vs Beethoven? I think not.
matthewhenson1 2 years ago
dont be hatin all rap now, mainstream rap is pretty much gibberish, but then so is most other mainstream stuff right? I dunno much about rap, but I like a rapper called k-os. peeps like him lets me have some hope for new music. why are you guys comparin this to rap anyways? cus its black?
"everyone is brown" - bill nye the science guy
Son House is uncomparable.
suckmynoids 2 years ago
One of the big differences between the music of folks like Son House and the artists of today is a thing called irony. The Blues is dripping with irony. This element along with technology is one of the reasons today's music come across kinda' sterile. Wouldn't you just love to hear rappers be ironic as oppose to mysoginistic?
rievans57 2 years ago 2
i can feel his soul his heart and his love for the blues.aint nothing better than the blues love it .....
geribud 2 years ago 4
Amazing.... anyone have any idea what this is from, or if this is on an album somewhere?? This is the best version i've heard of this song by far
animalstudios 2 years ago 2
Grew up in the south singing gospel in the church choir and playin sax in concert band. This man is the truth and also notice the native american tribal tones he produces also he layin his powerful hand on that damu guuuuuiiiiiiitarrrr.
peanutbuttr1 2 years ago
Iam a steel guitarist.Cant think of antything worse than steel/slide playing without intornation.
But the way Son House drives that slide down the strings its so right.One of the most sceary and beautyful evil sounds i ever heard.Cant get enough of him.Been listening to him for 21 years.Its the same with Muddy Waters.The influece of Son House on muddy is even greater than Robert Johnson.This aint no flirty Rock music.This is the real thing
steinsteel 2 years ago 2
Giant of blues!
SonnyREast 2 years ago
man i love the slide guitar sound
walkingdead7 2 years ago 4
i dont think ill be able to ever listen to son house ever again. his music is just too dang sad. of all the blues ive heard nothing has hit me harder to the bone than son house. nothing.
sb6lb3 2 years ago 26
You're right.
ldnkid 2 years ago 3
@sb6lb3 It's the same with me. And the way he'll do a song like this - it's really slow but Chugs along so friggin relentlessly....
slideharp1 1 year ago
@sb6lb3 I can't STOP listening to him because of that very reason. This IS the blues through and through.....I love it....it's so real and raw
MrsSarb 1 year ago
don't you mind people grinnin in your face?
mufukucc 2 years ago
that would be john the revelator
6557andrewg 2 years ago
L2tastebrah I didn't like blues and jazz when I was a teenager finding it rather ugly, as I've got older I appreciate it more -Al of Yahoo Group's Beat_Happening thread.
Kerouac4fan 2 years ago
L2tastebrah get back to your dub step, hardcore trance nation, drum & base nonsense...
trilby2 2 years ago 2
Asshat
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