Let me tell you about Son House (Documentary)

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  • @stuartknowles8206
    @stuartknowles8206 4 роки тому +49

    Son House was recording within approximately two years of picking up the guitar.... he was scouted by Charley Patton no less. Primitive? Primal more like and a force of nature. There’s more power in his right hand and vocal than Led Zeppelin in full flight......if he conveyed this much power in his older years imagine the power he unleashed in his early years in a Juke Joint! As far as questioning his guitar ability? His playing was imperfectly perfect!!!

    • @Beachboy-sg4qx
      @Beachboy-sg4qx 3 роки тому +8

      In the blues style you have the off beat style where you don’t go by the music you make the music catch up with you the singers telling his story they music is at a slow pace we call this style the off beat or the rare style a classic of it own lane they do it in today’s music the sing off beat and the people love it the people don’t want the same everyday 1980s style on the beat songs anymore 👍💵🤷‍♀️🤷🏽👨🏽‍💻👩🏼‍💻🤔😎

    • @awguitar-1
      @awguitar-1 2 роки тому

      Yea, this is British guy sounds like an ass

    • @jdrobinson3468
      @jdrobinson3468 Рік тому +4

      Imperfectly perfect I like that

  • @davidlister7447
    @davidlister7447 4 роки тому +24

    I am fortunate to have his autograph, he seemed to be amused by his new found fame after his "rediscovery." After all these years the Blues still touch my soul.

  • @004752
    @004752 4 роки тому +30

    I met Son house in Rochester, NY in 1972. It was not until years later that I fully appreciated the fact I shook hands with a man who shook hands with Robert Johnson!! He is the real deal!!

    • @GrxndDxD
      @GrxndDxD 3 роки тому

      Seriously? I'm from the ghettos of the RoC. Would LOVE TO KNOW were he lived. Point it out to my kids.

    • @YeeThirty
      @YeeThirty 3 роки тому +3

      Thats what you took away from the interaction???... oof...

    • @johnthemachine
      @johnthemachine 2 роки тому +2

      ​@@YeeThirty agreed, major cringe

  • @markmcmyn8967
    @markmcmyn8967 Місяць тому

    The song Death Letter Blues, vocal AND guitar, is a masterpiece!

  • @mattwalsh9413
    @mattwalsh9413 2 місяці тому

    hes an incredible guitar player. no one can play with feeling like that.

  • @billiverson9014
    @billiverson9014 Місяць тому

    13:34 Allan Wilson aka "Blind Owl" was the co-founder, lead guitar and co-singer w/ the original Canned Heat. He died in 1970 just 2 weeks before Jimi Hendrix, 4 weeks before Janis Joplin and 10 months before Jim Morrison. All were 27 years old.

  • @paradox7743
    @paradox7743 5 років тому +25

    Son House- A Force of Nature-He is the BLUES-Technique has it's place & you might be able to play a million notes a minute but Damn if you ain't got SOUL it don't mean shit.He was 4Real & yes thank you for this-Peace

  • @Bjornlundstrom
    @Bjornlundstrom 5 років тому +9

    Respect R.I.P.

  • @Nafeism
    @Nafeism 2 роки тому +2

    Let me tell you something about Son House... he's my favourite, a total legend. His voice IS the Blues. Thanks for bringing attention to him.

  • @danielreedmiller1209
    @danielreedmiller1209 2 роки тому +12

    I don’t get this guy’s repeated emphasis on how Son House wasn’t a technically good guitar player. He is right that the “soul” of the singing and performance is what really matters, but in my view, House’s guitar playing is perfect. I mean what really is “good” guitar playing, ultimately? With House, there’s a singular genius of musicality in the entire package of his playing and singing and energy. It all goes together and it is brilliant and absolutely unduplicatable.

  • @donaldenox6332
    @donaldenox6332 4 роки тому +3

    My favorite guy. I love blues. Everything about them. The more soul and feeling the better.

  • @buskerbrown9980
    @buskerbrown9980 2 роки тому +6

    The reason why Son House holds his slide here, in the way that he does, and at that angle, is because he had suffered severe frost bite to his hand a short time before that recording!
    He could only use some of his fingers on that hand and was very restricted.
    It's also the reason why he could only play in open tunings around this time.
    Eddie "Son" House is 69 years old here,
    Playing with a severely frost bitten hand and a 40 year hiatus from the instrument..
    I would say his playing is absolutely phenomenal!
    "Rough round the edges" gtf lol

  • @MrBonzopersonal
    @MrBonzopersonal 4 роки тому +10

    Great video, Son House was also a witness of Robert Johnson's crossroads, when Robert used to go his shows and ask to borrow his guitar and Son said no because he has no idea of play it then he disappear like for 10 months and when he came back he ask to borrow the guitar again and rest is history

    • @cyclesgoff9768
      @cyclesgoff9768 4 роки тому +4

      L P I thought it was an utterly unfair and ill educated hatchet job on house.

  • @radicalradioOz
    @radicalradioOz 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks for this doco mate.

  • @cozycherry1790
    @cozycherry1790 2 роки тому +1

    Hope you come back this type of story telling is great!

  • @reginaldd.paperstacks194
    @reginaldd.paperstacks194 3 місяці тому

    Love this

  • @anthonymessineo8804
    @anthonymessineo8804 2 роки тому +1

    I’m in , been playin blues, harp an guitar,,51 yrs.. stop by please..Tony 🎼😎👍

  • @risboturbide9396
    @risboturbide9396 2 роки тому

    Such a great docu. Thank you, man 🍻🍻🍻 Son House is the Man!

  • @keithbettag598
    @keithbettag598 6 років тому +12

    thank you for this vid and ur views on son house,,,,i dont care what people say, he is my favorite delta blues player of all time---like u said, not really a great musician, or a person for that matter, but he had the blues, he felt the blues, he was the blues

    • @davisworth5114
      @davisworth5114 3 роки тому

      not really a great musician WTF you are a fool.

  • @franzkafka77
    @franzkafka77 4 роки тому +9

    House was a force of nature. Patton WAS Nature.

  • @trojanhman8136
    @trojanhman8136 3 роки тому

    Fantastic. Thank you. I think your closing comments were perfect.

  • @zachend2750
    @zachend2750 7 місяців тому

    Thank you!

  • @geffcassuto
    @geffcassuto 3 роки тому +7

    listen to his early sides, he was an incredible technichian, the second photo is Ishmon Bracey not willie Brown

  • @markewings7525
    @markewings7525 4 роки тому +6

    Fantastic to see howling wolf ragging son house .. priceless stuff !

  • @jfreestacy
    @jfreestacy 3 роки тому

    Love that type of sarcasm and guidance

  • @wilshirewarrior2783
    @wilshirewarrior2783 4 роки тому +26

    I cry when I hear “Death Letter”

    • @mightyeye4624
      @mightyeye4624 4 роки тому +1

      I feel you 100% never lost a wife or Gf either lol.

    • @mickdevlin
      @mickdevlin 3 роки тому +1

      EVERYONE does, brother. All the best and keep listening to the great Son.

    • @theresapratt5213
      @theresapratt5213 3 роки тому

      Me too!

    • @Beachboy-sg4qx
      @Beachboy-sg4qx 3 роки тому

      I feel that one my soul was fell to the floor 🧐🤔👍he did that song letter of death is the one

    • @douglaspaterson5269
      @douglaspaterson5269 3 роки тому

      Then check out Fixin' to die blues by Bukka White.😉

  • @kenairockband
    @kenairockband 3 роки тому

    At 7:30 the fella on the right is Ishmon Bracey

  • @leschab
    @leschab 4 роки тому +3

    'perfect the technique , but make sure the technique is in the service of the soul" ... Like that ,Sound advice

  • @rodzfrater3767
    @rodzfrater3767 3 роки тому +1

    Love is guitar playing. I bought a resonator on strength of it. Think minimalist would be best way to describe it.

  • @jaynellioriginal5160
    @jaynellioriginal5160 3 роки тому +5

    My grandfather Joe Cooper taught him how to play the guitar ❤️

    • @allguitar887
      @allguitar887 2 роки тому +1

      So cool. Your Grandfather was awesome .thank you ...

    • @jaynellioriginal5160
      @jaynellioriginal5160 2 роки тому

      @@allguitar887 ❤️🙏🏽 thank u for your kind words 🙂

    • @frankmirra8243
      @frankmirra8243 Рік тому +1

      Excellent.. do you have any recordings of your grandfather's playing?

    • @jaynellioriginal5160
      @jaynellioriginal5160 Рік тому

      @@frankmirra8243 I wish I did 😞

  • @ermataz
    @ermataz 5 років тому +5

    in Walking Blues (1942) recordings, Fiddlin' Joe Martin plays mandolin instead of fiddle.
    Btw great Son House summary, A+ :D

  • @frankmirra8243
    @frankmirra8243 Рік тому +7

    I wholeheartedly disagree with your statements that Stone House was not a good technical guitar player. Is early recordings were phenomenal. Don't compare them with his we discovered recordings after all those years of not playing and being an alcoholic.

    • @TheBiggusdee
      @TheBiggusdee 4 місяці тому

      I have to agree, in his later years Son House was a 'primitive' guitar player, but that doesn't diminish his uniquely powerful style, nor his genius. The only thing 'wrong' with his playing is when he was sometimes painfully out of tune. I wish somebody had found a way to gently tune his guitar up for him!

    • @robford3211
      @robford3211 16 днів тому

      @Thebiggusdee
      Ever heard of Ornette Coleman a black sax player and composer out of Texas one of founding fathers of free jazz? No one would play with him because they claimed he played flat . But actually that’s his signature.
      Besides if you look the whole history of Western tuning like a Classic Piano is there anything in tune in it?
      The whole steps are completely un natural.
      Look up the history of Just intonation…

  • @lumberpilot
    @lumberpilot 2 роки тому

    Great intro to an early architect of the blues.

  • @malaquiasalfaro81
    @malaquiasalfaro81 2 роки тому

    Son House, Fred McDowell, RL Burnside, Rosa Lee Hill. I can live off of these alone.

  • @TRICK-OR-TREAT236
    @TRICK-OR-TREAT236 Рік тому

    LOOKS LIKE THOSE EYEBROWS HAVEN'T SEEN A BARBER IN DECADES ! 😂 🤣 😂

  • @lamper2
    @lamper2 4 роки тому +2

    make one of these about Tampa Red

  • @reneefreilich320
    @reneefreilich320 3 роки тому

    I cry when I hear Son house. I have a Sun House record. Not from the 30's

  • @jimmygray4072
    @jimmygray4072 4 роки тому +7

    Patton was part Native American indian

  • @burgerbeatz6293
    @burgerbeatz6293 4 роки тому

    Thank you so much for this and other amazing video essays - you deserve more subscribers!

  • @vincent5542
    @vincent5542 4 роки тому +2

    16:00 i never saw someone clapping like that

  • @Tina2024-v3z
    @Tina2024-v3z 6 років тому +3

    Third view, first like and now first comment! Thanks for the video. Your know your stuff, sir! I took a look at your guitar site. Might I suggest you do a copy of the Gretsch 5810 Bo Diddly guitar now no longer in production, but make it 80 cm long so it can go in hold luggage. I think it would sell as an interesting travel guitar! (er, if you do this you gotta give me one free, right?!) Best wishes Andy

    • @dr.marigaux7240
      @dr.marigaux7240  6 років тому +1

      Thanks for that! Cool idea for an 80cm guitar - only trouble is I have a dozen or so Les Paul scale necks, and a guitar made with one of those will be at least 100-120cm long.

  • @dacookmgnt
    @dacookmgnt 3 роки тому +4

    Son House first recorded "Ain't gonna trim deez brows!"

  • @farmhand6524
    @farmhand6524 9 місяців тому

    Guitar playing texture; mmmm for me just fine...

  • @tristangossman8910
    @tristangossman8910 5 років тому

    nice!

  • @matthewgrimm5383
    @matthewgrimm5383 5 років тому +2

    Heard tell once his left hand was badly injured.

    • @theresewalters1696
      @theresewalters1696 3 роки тому

      When I met him about 15 years ago they said he was shot in the south and that's why he had a horrible limp. Really short guy too. But a good sense of humor.

    • @richardbranton7396
      @richardbranton7396 Рік тому

      @@theresewalters1696 15 years ago ? He died in 1988

  • @myweeskoolie7504
    @myweeskoolie7504 2 роки тому

    👍

  • @rodzfrater3767
    @rodzfrater3767 3 роки тому

    Haha funny conclusion 👕 Good talk thanks

  • @HectorSpector
    @HectorSpector 5 років тому +3

    Wolf owned him bad. God damn.

    • @Gunners_Mate_Guns
      @Gunners_Mate_Guns 4 роки тому +3

      I hate to say it as a fan of Son, but Wolf was totally in the right, too.
      Son was known to take to drink way too much too often.
      Wolf was not known for that at all.
      He was a serious musician who believed in giving the best performances he could, and he expected a lot from his band.
      He also loved his family, and he took great care to show it everyday, a genuine family man.
      On top of that, he rewarded his band with great pay and even (almost unheard of at the time) benefits.
      I love Son House's music, but Wolf was a true professional, an awesome musician, and a great man, period.

    • @Gunners_Mate_Guns
      @Gunners_Mate_Guns 4 роки тому +1

      @@westsidesmitty1 Damn straight!
      Before he had his auto accident, he would have been a very serious force to reckon with.

  • @ajones9685
    @ajones9685 6 років тому

    Strangely enough I was having a discussion with someone, re: Willie Brown pictures. Can you expand at all as to why these are 'possible' Willie Brown pictures? You know anything else about them? A great tribute to one of the greats. Really enjoyed!!

    • @RoZaMedia
      @RoZaMedia 6 років тому +1

      Can't add anything much more - they could be photos of the somewhat famous blues player, or photos of other people named William Brown, they could be photos of random guitar players that someone has decided to palm off as Willie Brown photos. It's pretty much impossible to tell - there's a lot less scholarship on Willie Brown than there is on, for example, Robert Johnson.

    • @ajones9685
      @ajones9685 6 років тому

      Phil Davison Yes. I was aware that there is less scholarship, and the area is a grey one, ie: the Willie Brown who played with House and Patton may not have been the same one who recorded with Alan Lomax. Chances are it's not Willie Brown then... Thanks for your help.

  • @PFay
    @PFay 2 роки тому

    Perhaps closer to any other, during our boomer lifetimes, to the seminal Charlie Patton among the Dockery farm lineage. Son House somewhat overlooked I’d suggest due to the folklore built around Robert Johnson. Whom although rightfully worthy of his adulation, i think it might be underestimated how much Johnson’s iconic status is due to a recording quality more acceptable to modern ears than the likes of Son House, Charlie Patton or Skip James?

  • @kennyguitarallen5662
    @kennyguitarallen5662 4 роки тому +6

    it sounds as if he's on trial here? for being a blues man

  • @alvininnaples
    @alvininnaples 2 роки тому

    I want to Thank You for mentioning at the end of your Video that you have to have soul, you have to have it running and coursing thru your veins. I'm a White Boy and have had many Black People look and say in shock when I played and sang "The White Boy's Got Soul". I just laughed because you gotta have been to hell and back. You got the blues, Charley Patton was doing things with the Guitar that people only seen Jimi Hendrix do

  • @no59do56
    @no59do56 2 роки тому

    Is that Son House talking to Howling Wolf ...both back in forth. Scolding Son for drinking to much. Not making something of himself 🙏🏿🙏

  • @awguitar-1
    @awguitar-1 2 роки тому +2

    Now you're gonna comment on how he holds his slide?! This man had more soul in his pinky tip than your British ass has ever had. Who cares if the slide rattles a bit? Between his playing and singing he is more than you'll ever be.

  • @adsotbraz
    @adsotbraz 5 років тому +4

    Son House was the greatest and the most powerful. If he had published his music as much Robert Johnson, he would be more well-known. And no white person taught Son House how to play the guitar.

    • @Gunners_Mate_Guns
      @Gunners_Mate_Guns 4 роки тому +2

      I'm a huge fan of Son, but it's more complicated than that.
      As it turns out, when Dick Waterman and his friends finally located Son in the 1960s living in Rochester, NY, Son cheerfully explained that he hadn't played guitar since the 1940s, and he had essentially forgotten how to play.
      Enter Alan Wilson of the band Canned Heat, who spent quite a bit of time, who was brought in to "show Son House how to play like Son House," as it was put at the time.
      "Blind Owl" Wilson didn't exactly teach Son how to play, but his help was essential in getting Son to remember all that he had forgotten in those lost decades.
      Even then, Son didn't play with nearly the speed that he had back in those old recordings of him, especially with the likes of "Preachin' the Blues."

    • @KayEl58
      @KayEl58 3 роки тому +5

      @@Gunners_Mate_Guns I'm amazed there are people here who don't know that story, or they misunderstand, or resent it. Alan Wilson idolised these old blues musicians, he knew their work intimately.

    • @Gunners_Mate_Guns
      @Gunners_Mate_Guns 3 роки тому +2

      @@KayEl58 100% correct
      Alan considered it an honor to help one of his main influences, and he fully realized just what a legend Son was.
      We owe Alan a huge debt of gratitude for what he did giving Son a second act, thereby making it possible for a whole new generation to attend his performances and appreciate the man's contribution to 20th century American music.

    • @KayEl58
      @KayEl58 3 роки тому +2

      @@Gunners_Mate_GunsAlan 'Blind Owl' Wilson and those who inspired him to reach the heights he reached - may they never be forotten. Nice talking to you @PinkOld 😊

    • @Gunners_Mate_Guns
      @Gunners_Mate_Guns 3 роки тому +1

      @@KayEl58 Right back atcha.

  • @SonOfPsalms23
    @SonOfPsalms23 3 роки тому +2

    This dudes chapped lips and eyebrows are a distraction 😬😬

  • @andrewcharleton3951
    @andrewcharleton3951 3 роки тому +7

    Just what the world needs! yet another white "blues expert" talking about someone he has never met! Oh dear

  • @giaosplinter
    @giaosplinter 4 місяці тому

    Not a good guitarist? I've heard some idiotic quotes online but that might take the biscuit

  • @itsallaroundyou7085
    @itsallaroundyou7085 3 роки тому +1

    You are saying an awful lot as fact. No one knows how Robert johnson died. He was nobody when he died.
    You're full of it.

  • @dacookmgnt
    @dacookmgnt 3 роки тому +1

    He's an awful guitar player. Never would have made it in Nashville.