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Music CD - Son House: Son House & the Great Delta Blues Singers
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Music CD: Son House & the Great Delta Blues Singers
Artist: Son House
List Price: $16.98
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Manufacturer: Document
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1. My Black Mama, Pt. 1 - Son House, House, Son
2. My Black Mama, Pt. 2 - Son House, House, Son
3. Preachin' the Blues, Pt. 1 - Son House, House, Son
4. Preachin' the Blues, Pt. 2 - Son House, House, Son
5. Dry Spell Blues, Pt. 1 - Son House, House, Son
6. Dry Spell Blues, Pt. 2 - Son House, House, Son
7. Walkin' Blues - Son House, House, Son
8. M and O Blues - Son House, Brown, Willie
9. Future Blues - Son House, Brown, Willie [1]
10. Mississippi Bottom Blues - Son House, Bailey, Kid
11. Rowdy Blues - Son House, Bailey, Kid
12. Cottonfield Blues, Pt. 1 - Son House, Akers, Garfield
13. Cottonfield Blues, Pt. 2 - Son House, Akers, Garfield
14. Dough Roller Blues - Son House, Akers, Garfield
15. Jumpin' and Shoutin' Blues - Son House, Akers, Garfield
16. Fare Thee Well Blues - Son House, Calicott, Joe
17. Traveling Mama Blues - Son House, Akers, Garfield
18. Bedside Blues - Son House, Thompkins, Jim
19. Outside Woman Blues - Son House, Reynolds, Blind Joe
20. Nehi Blues - Son House, Reynolds
21. Married Man Blues - Son House, Reynolds
22. Third Street Woman Blues - Son House, Reynolds, Wille
23. Mississippi Jailhouse Blues - Son House, Lacy, Rubin
24. Ham Hound Crave - Son House, Lacy, Rubin
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0714298500226
Format: Import
Label: Document
Manufacturer: Document
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Document
Release Date: 1994-05-27
Studio: Document
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Summary: Son House and the Great Delta Blues Singers
Comment: 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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Summary: Son House was the grandaddy of 'em all!
Comment: 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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Summary: Great Stuff, Some Repeats
Comment: 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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Summary: Awesome
Comment: "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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Summary: A COLLECTION OF SOME OF THE FINEST DELTA BLUES
Comment: I absolutely love this CD and find myself listening to it over-and-over again. I ordered it for the Son House material but have found the Willie Brown and the Garfield Akers songs to be every bit as fantastic! Although I especially like the three musicians already mentioned, there is not a dud in any of the remaining tracks. If you like delta blues and don't have this CD you are missing one of the greatest musical treats you're liable to find.
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