How sweet is this...
"Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded." Jimi Hendrix.
Yeah, Son House had a very particular way for playing guitar. He appears in a couple of interviews in the documentary films produced by Scorsese on blues. His opinion on the what is the blues and how he explained it is great.
That was cool :D
Nice Dobro/National - probably his since the 30's.
Son was a contemporary of Robert Johnson.
You can sure see similarities in their sound.
And as complicated as Son was here - RJ took it even furthur.
With those riffs and bass lines and more complicated fills.
Too bad he didn't last long enough to leave us a visual record like this.
I have a double album of John Lee Hooker (actual vinyl) where he's doing all his songs in a style much like this...
solo with a guitar and sitting on a stool tapping his foot.
It's great.
Many associate JLH with the electric blues of Detroit and Chicago....
He was actually born around Clarksdale, Mississippi. The same Delta area that Son House and Robert Johnson were from.
It sure shows in his playing - although electric.
Thankx for the post
I really enjoyed it :D
Ken
"The man who has begun to live more seriously within
begins to live more simply without"
-Ernest Hemingway
"A genuine individual is an outright nuisance in a factory"
-Orson Welles
I saw an old Howlin Wolf documentary where they all go to England to play a festival. Howlin Wolf gets so mad at Son House for being a drunk. Its been a while so it may not be Son House, but i'm pretty sure it was.
