King of the Delta Blues Son House

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CD - Remastered

  • Release Date: 10/25/2005
  • Sales Rank: 64,051
  • Label: FUEL 2000
  • UPC: 030206151121

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King of the Delta Blues

1LISTENLevee Camp Blues 3:44
2LISTENGovernment Fleet Blues 6:49
3LISTENWalking Blues 6:43
4LISTENShetland Pony Blues 3:25
5LISTENCamp Hollers 2:27
6LISTENDelta Blues 5:19
7LISTENSpecial Rider Blues 0:40
8LISTENSpecial Rider Blues 3:08
9LISTENLow Down Dirty Dog Blues 4:55
10LISTENDepot Blues 2:58
11LISTENDemonstration of Concert Guitar Tuning (The Key of Minor) 1:31
12LISTENAmerican Defense 2:55
13LISTENAm I Right or Wrong 1:47
14LISTENWalking Blues 3:01
15LISTENCounty Farm Blues 2:10
16LISTENThe Pony Blues 4:12
17LISTENJinx Blues, No. 1 3:25
18LISTENJinx Blues, No. 2 4:25

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King of the Delta Blues is a single-disc set that collects Son House's Library of Congress sessions for Alan Lomax in 1940 and 1941, and House's huge rasping voice and vibrant slide guitar style are everywhere here, both on the solo selections and on a handful of African-American string band pieces that finds friends Leroy Williams (harmonica), Fiddlin' Joe Martin (mandolin), and Willie Brown (guitar) lending a hand. These intimate field recordings, which were tracked at Clack's Store near Cormorant, Mississippi, combined with House's complete Paramount recordings from 1930, which amounted to three double-sided 78s ("My Black Mama," "Preachin' the Blues," and "Dry Spell Blues"), form the true heart of House's legacy, since his rediscovery sides for Columbia in the 1960s catch him, quite honestly, with diminishing powers. Catfish got it exactly right by combining everything here with House's powerfully dynamic Paramount 78s for 2000's Preachin' the Blues, and it remains the only truly essential Son House purchase. Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

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