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| | Son House & the Great Delta Blues Singers | | | Music Artist : | | Son House | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Document | | Release Date : | | 1994-05-27 | | Store Price : | | $16.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $16.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. My Black Mama, Pt. 1 - Son House
2. My Black Mama, Pt. 2 - Son House
3. Preachin' the Blues, Pt. 1 - Son House
4. Preachin' the Blues, Pt. 2 - Son House
5. Dry Spell Blues, Pt. 1 - Son House
6. Dry Spell Blues, Pt. 2 - Son House
7. Walkin' Blues [#] - Son House
8. M and O Blues - Willie Brown
9. Future Blues - Willie Brown
10. Mississippi Bottom Blues - Kid Bailey
11. Rowdy Blues - Kid Bailey
12. Cottonfield Blues, Pt. 1 - Garfield Akers, Joe Calicott
13. Cottonfield Blues, Pt. 2 - Garfield Akers, Joe Calicott
14. Dough Roller Blues - Garfield Akers
15. Jumpin' and Shoutin' Blues - Garfield Akers
16. Fare Thee Well Blues - Joe Calicott
17. Traveling Mama Blues - Joe Calicott
18. Bedside Blues - Jim Thompkins
19. Outside Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds, Blind Joe Reynolds
20. Nehi Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds, Blind Joe Reynolds
21. Married Man Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds
22. Third Street Woman Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds
23. Mississippi Jailhouse Blues - Son House
24. Ham Hound Crave - Reverend Rubin Lacy
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 The legend of legends
Submitted on: 2009-09-12 |
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Great vintage delta blues!
Being a Son House fan, I have to comment that all of his recordings found on this were superb, albeit marred by the inevitable crackles from deteriorated circa 1930 vinyl.
The three tracks that were particularly good to me were "My Black Mama," with its fantastic rhythm and slide ringing throughout.
This song was the forerunner to what later became House's signature piece, "Death Letter."
"Preachin' the Blues" is incredible, with House expertly weaving his guitar in and out, with that unmistakable field holler bass voice.
"Walking Blues" is wonderful and features a second guitarist, almost certainly none other than Willie Brown.
Both Willie Brown tracks are good, but "Future Blues" is especially good, standing right up next to those from House himself.
The other bluesmen found on this CD were very good, but I bought this for Son and Willie most of all, and their songs are truly worth it for a blues fan.
This is also - I believe - the CD to get if you want the complete Grafton, Wisconsin Paramount Records sessions.
For an even bigger treat (19 tracks!) for a Son House fan, get "The Complete Library of Congress Sessions, 1941-1942," found here:
The Complete Library of Congress Sessions, 1941-1942
Also, the one record of Son that had not been found turned up only back in 2005.
You can find the two songs from it (along with lots of other extreme rarities) here: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of |
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Son House and the Great Delta Blues Singers
Submitted on: 2008-11-12 |
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This is more of a question than a review. I discovered the Delta Blues over the last few years and can't get enough of it. Of the 30 or so CDs I've purchased I ocasionally get one where the recording is scratchy and the sound quality is less than good. This CD is one of those. I've read the reviews and no one talks about this. The other Son House recordings I have purchased have good quality sound. The question is three fold. First, why is the quality of the sound not mentioned in any of the reviews? Second, how can I know before purchasing future recordings that the sound quality will be good? Last, the cover of the CD I received is not the cover shown. This CD has the above title but also says 1928 ~ 1930 is black and white, and has Son sitting in a chair in front of a microphone. Why the different cover? Looking for help from Long Beach, Mississippi.
Jeff |
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Son House was the grandaddy of 'em all!
Submitted on: 2006-04-16 |
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| If you're interested in the blues roots of rock, you've come to the right place. Son House laid down tracks that have echoed down to this day, and he may have been the first true wellspring of what became rock. I've been a listener and collector of what's now called classic rock for more than 40 years, and I have never found an earlier or truer original source than Son House. With all the fuss being bestowed on Robert Johnson these days, here's a clue: Son House taught RJ how to play! Listen to this album and hear the foreshadowings of ALL the great music to come... Truly great guitar pickin', and a voice as rough, plain and honest as Mississippi dirt clods... You may not want to put this album on Infinite Repeat, but you will not walk away unimpressed or unmoved. IMHO, Son House truly deserves the title of Great Grandaddy of Rock! |
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 Great Stuff, Some Repeats
Submitted on: 2005-01-30 |
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| Son House is essential to any blues collection. And as is usually the case with pre-war blues artists, Son's early stuff is better than the 60's revival stuff. That said, the company put songs on here by other artists that already appear on Mississippi Masters--which I also highly reccomend, especially for Geechie Wiley's "Last Kind Words." This CD would be 5-star and beyond if it weren't for those repeated songs. |
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Awesome
Submitted on: 2003-12-10 |
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"Son House & The Great Delta Blues Singers" isn't entirely devoted to Son House. There are cuts by several other musicians, including Rube Lacy, Joe Calicott, and House's onetime playing partner Willie Brown, but this disc, which contains Son House's complete 1930 session, is the best place to get his earliest songs.
The sound quality is not excactly stellar, mainly due to the inferior quality of Columbia Records' original masters and horrible quality pressings, yet the power and intensity of Son House's huge voice and slashing slide guitar playing cuts through the pops and hisses like...well, a cutting thing.
Also, this CD is one of the very few which features both the previously unreleased test acetate of "Walking Blues" (the basis for Robert Johnson's song, not the other way around), and the second parts of House's three two-part singles. Listen to "My Black Mama part II", and you'll recognize it as the original version of "Death Letter Blues", complete with House's magnificent, wailing slide guitar riff.
House's seven songs are the highlights of this collection, but there is a lot of other stuff here which is certainly of interest to fans of classic Delta blues. The gruff-voiced Willie Brown's two cuts are almost as powerful as Son House's, particularly the great "Future Blues" (listen to Brown snapping the bass strings).
And fine waxings by Kid Bailey and Joe Reynolds in particular makes this a great collection of Delta blues as recorded by Paramount Records in 1929-30. |
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