Son House Lesson
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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Eddie James House, later known simply a son house, was born on March 21st 1902 in Lyon, Mississippi. He married at the age of 19 and moved to New Orleans to help his much older wife's father. With their farm house, would quickly developed a hatred for menial labor. Feeling used and disillusioned by his wife, he would later recall quote. I left her hanging on the gate post with her father, telling me to come back so we could plough some more. His resentment of any menial work led him to the church and became a pay preacher and church pastor openly hostile to secular music. During this time, he began falling, though to all the said evils of such music, which included alcoholism and womanizing. But in 1927 House heard a drinking companion playing bottleneck guitar, and he immediately changed his attitude about music. Two weeks later, he was performing on stage, and he quickly developed his own sound, which included his bottleneck guitar in a religious style of singing. House was playing a juke joint 1927 when a man went on a shooting spree, shot house in the leg and house and retaliation shot the man dead that landed him in the Mississippi state pen. About two years later, he was released. When House was released, he made his living playing with artists like Charley Patton and Willie Brown. He famously recorded with Paramount Records in Grafton, Wisconsin. But the recording was considered a commercial failure, and by 1943 he had faded from public view. But slowly that recording crept into the public consciousness. In the 1964 Nick Pearls and **** Waterman went on a nationwide search to find Sun House. They located him in Rochester, New York The 19 sixties folk blues revival brought Son House back out of retirement, and he would. Two were extensively until 1974 when he became ill. Son Houses Style Would would influence other great blues legends like Robert Johnson, Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters, who said that man was the King son House influenced many of today's legends. Jeff Back, John Mooney and Jack White all described son houses being a major influence in those today, we cannot ignore the impact, his style, his head on, every generation of guitarists, Son House is a legend amongst musical legends. This is out of the garage