SON HOUSE - Live in Seattle (1968) - Full Album

Son House - Live in Seattle (1968) - Full Concert.
Death Letter Blues
Goverment Fleet Blues
Empire State Express
I Want To Live (So God Can Use Me)
Preachin' Blues
Louise McGhee
Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. (March 21, 1902 - October 19, 1988) was an American delta blues singer and guitarist, noted for his highly emotional style of singing and slide guitar playing.
After years of hostility to secular music, as a preacher and for a few years also as a church pastor, he turned to blues performance at the age of 25. He quickly developed a unique style by applying the rhythmic drive, vocal power and emotional intensity of his preaching to the newly learned idiom. In a short career interrupted by a spell in Parchman Farm penitentiary, he developed to the point that Charley Patton, the foremost blues artist of the Mississippi Delta region, invited him to share engagements and to accompany him to a 1930 recording session for Paramount Records.
Issued at the start of the Great Depression, the records did not sell and did not lead to national recognition. Locally, House remained popular, and in the 1930s, together with Patton's associate Willie Brown, he was the leading musician of Coahoma County. There he was a formative influence on Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. In 1941 and 1942, House and the members of his band were recorded by Alan Lomax and John W. Work for the Library of Congress and Fisk University. The following year, he left the Delta for Rochester, New York, and gave up music.
In 1964, a group of young record collectors discovered House, whom they knew of from his records issued by Paramount and by the Library of Congress. With their encouragement, he relearned his repertoire and established a career as an entertainer, performing for young, mostly white audiences in coffeehouses, at folk festivals and on concert tours during the American folk music revival, billed as a "folk blues" singer. He recorded several albums, and some informally taped concerts have also been issued as albums. House died in 1988.
In addition to his early influence on Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters, he was an inspiration to John Hammond, Alan Wilson (of Canned Heat), Bonnie Raitt, the White Stripes, Dallas Green and John Mooney.
In 2017, his single, "Preachin' the Blues" was inducted in to the Blues Hall of Fame.
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[@jameskennedy721]

Living history when he was re-discovered and he found a new audience . He traveled with Blind Lemon and Robert Johnson and many other legends as a young man , trading songs and playing all over the South .

[@Charlie-fx9dp]

A legend still living in the 60'...

[@mst7155]

There are many blues Legends...... Son House is the most intense,his Death Letter Blues is heavy metal.

[@LoveOneAnotherHeSaid]

We don't know that, we hear only people who made records.

[@randomguyontheinternet7940]

Thank you

[@udemeaffia8964]

It's amazing how he patiently connects his sounds to the words he expressed out. "Thanks Blues Café "

[@stevenfloyd9284]

My God how I would have loved to know him.

[@bradhixenbaugh3627]

How can I ever begin to thank you

[@nalvadiodato4728]

Thank you blues café 👍from Brazil

[@JerryLee..]

*Gold!* Thank you!

[@thomasdungl8493]

Thank you so much for sharing of this great concert !!!

[@satellitesurfrockanthonyak5738]

Superb!

[@grants5554]

legendary

[@senseblossomxxx5260]

THANK YOU SO MUCH - THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!

[@kaecake9575]

Welcome to The Good Side of KZbin✨

[@keithmoses7052]

You can tell it was 1968 because I heard that car drive past. Lol!! Technology was so disrespectful back then.🤣🤣🤣

[@emmanuelsantana3369]

is it officialy released on record ?

[@carolmikofsky4976]

Thanks, love Son House, but this is NOT VIDEO.

[@michaeltoner1993]

no, it is "Full Album"

[@MorpheusOne]

The audio in this video is actually is actually pretty bad. One can hear the music & singing well enough; but, Son House's speaking voice is so low with audio quality so poor that it's next to impossible to understand fully what he is saying.

[@SeekTheWild85]

These old blues performers were notorious for talking and talking on stage while going away from the mic. They were from the time before they had mics and amplification. Dick Waterman, a manager of all these old bluesmen during the folk revival, would repeatedly have to tell Skip James, Bukka White and all those old guys to ''stay closer to the mic'' while they were performing lol

[@cngrinder9423]

The first tune is Levee Camp Blues/Levee Camp Moan!

[@cngrinder9423]

Wow, i thought i never saw this video and suddenly some wild comment of mine appears revisiting old stuff. Clearly the first tune is Death Letter Blues, i just thought that he kept on talking until around min 12

[@weaniebeaniebur5725]

@@cngrinder9423 I was about to say.... That's Death Letter if I ever heard it lol

[@cngrinder9423]

@@weaniebeaniebur5725 Yeah, definitely

[@PaulJohnson-yw9gi]

No; it's Death Letter Blues.

[@Vimtosh]

@@PaulJohnson-yw9giBit late, they corrected themselves.