hey guys the blues, we're back! mr blues with you today bringing the story of a guy who was responsible for spreading the story that robert johnson would sold his soul to the devil to get his fame , so ... - earn money - ** and did not win shit ... we're talking about : son house! son house was born in klarskdale mississippi in 1921 , and to 15 years the man converted to christianity - at 20, became a baptist minister but problems with alcohol and women ... - all have ! (laughs ) - who has not! (laughs ) - it's over, at 25, leaving the church and became a bluesman and writing your story blues in the annals - ( groan ) in the annals blues ! (laughs). playing with greats like charley patton , willie brown , robert johnson
" fiddlin ' " joe martin and leroy williams. - among others... from 1927 to 1928 he was in jail , arrested for a bar fight he claimed , claimed that in self-defense he ended up killing another man in that bar fight probably with a bottle - or , in the annals blues (laughs )... or a strangulation technique ... get it? (laughs) the boss of the family, because his family was working with all crops, and this boss this boss, the owner of the plantation, was a very influential man ... history tells a white man who owned the plantation pulled strings and got loose house
in a year, so he turned his night life again. in 1930, son house recorded for paramount records in rochester - new york , then he migrated from mississippi to new york to make these recordings for paramound records and, again in the 40 he recorded for alan lomax from the united states library of congress that ended becoming a great documentary about where son house blues participates and some other important names they gave its opinion on how it all began ... and son house is one of those guys who are in this video - talk a little about the history of the blues exactly! - of the annals of blues
as a bluesman mississippi delta blues, his slide exquisite technique prevailed. of course, we can not but speak of his compositions, his lyrics ... they often talked about women - yes ! - about women , about drinking (alcohol ) on the night ... but his technique is a technique that, for the time ... people ( other musicians ) started to pay more attention and began to send it copying some of his licks at the time, licks made ​​with slide. although his songs have long slide, his music that we play today does not use slide technique let's do a version ... let's say , more ... ' ballad ' . but it is a ' tremendous ' a song . - yes!
and we must also remember that , in his compositions , son house does not have much commitment to the progress of the music you can see that he's doing ... - especially the melodic line ! especially the melody line! it works with normal range of blues but do not worry lot with her ​​progress of time, he comes when he wants, is the wording the way you want just as the delta blues is ... a lot of commitment and ... i believe that most of the time these guys created to the same well ... yeah, they wanted to tell the story , they were not too concerned is sometimes the melodic line of the voice was not so perfectly fitted in music compass times. they were more concerned about telling a story. - yes!
during the decades of 30 and 40 , what happened was that son house made ​​few appearances because the us had been recovering from the depression of the 20's and ... these two recordings of the 30 and 40, what happened was not sold ... there was a contract between style label and blues mans that was something like this : ' we paid $ 40 per song , and that's ' buddy ' either - or do not want ... or ... you get nothing , come here and we'll sell records ... and you earn a share ( profits) of these recordings. there are other blues names including that recorded some songs for some of these record companies - will not specifically mention names but ... to record some of the time, they did not see a penny of your songs ...
most of the time blues mans died poor ... - yes ! they played in the evening and working day in the fields in order to defend their really did not give money ... it was done by, the soul, the desire to sing and express their pain to express their ideas and finally ... in 1940, again, son house turns and leaves the blues ... just because he was not giving any money, i had no future, then it comes back to church ... the story does not tell if he returns to pastor, probably not because he had burned his film, burned face there with the 20 year old but he now 40, a more mature man, converted again ...
' -must have got a sister there and good ... " - " he's gone ... " and the story says that when the 1960 documentary, which was the great 'explosion' of the blues ... which brought some of these new pro guys ... ... - for the music scene of the blues ? ... ...- i wanted to use another term ... for the circuit! for the blues circuit! there in the 60s with that documentary we said ... son house found working as doorman ...
" - from a whorehouse ? ' no! he worked at ... no, no whorehouse . (laughs) it was quite the ' face ' it could be ... but it was not ! " that train bid , what is it ? " - station? ... a train station... he was head of a train station ... in the 60 found son house , was already head of an american train station ... ... the place is not quite right but through other mans blues
he heard : "man has the son house , which is ' just ' place and this guy also done a lot with us it's cool he give his testimony ... - and then he turned again blues pro! and then he went back to blues again! yes! because until then, in the 60s , what happened was the boom of the blues that was when bands like led zeppelin , cream , the rolling stones ... were drinking at source in large festivals blues. one of them: the newport folk festival in 1964, the newport folk festival, 1964 ... it was very well received, and there was that 'explosion' , where great bands come drink from the fountain ... we can not forget that in this period there
along with robert johnson also in history, we can not forget willie brown ... - it is true! that was a guy who often was not in front , but always in the background, holding the bases for others to show their talents ... i would rather stay more in the background ... including the song "crossroads blues" , robert johnson makes a mention himself when he says : "you can run, you can run , tell my friend boy willie brown" it is precisely this willie brown that he refers ... a great friend of theirs ... he participated too with these guys, it's part of history as a musician who helped more bases in holding time ... - that's right! a guy who was more in the background ... - it's true!
willie brown even left the blues in the 40s, along with son house. because was no longer ' yielding' , then it was also a blues man who walked away what happened, was that willie brown died before that the blues reheat in the 60 ... ... and can not see what is over ... the blues becoming ... what is sad! - seen from heaven ... - if he was to heaven right? "heaven of bluesmen!" - 'heaven of bluesmen ...' (laughter) it has some famous names here, these bands were drinking at source, these festivals :
cream, as we talked ... fleetwood mac, rolling stones, led zeppelin... - creedence! creedence, yes ! because american bands also came to drink from this source ... " - the doors ! " - the doors ! it's a great band ... janis joplin! ohhh!!! bob dylan! - the very jimmi hendrix ! - " and the very jimi hendrix ! "
ohhh, yes of course! who developed their own styles based on blues fundamentals. in the annals of the blues ! (laughs) musicians such as albert king, freddie king and buddy guy started to change the sound of the blues ... because they put a lot of things that had to remember what would be the rock n roll ... but we have to remember this : these guys did this change the ' face ' of the blues ... we have to remember this : ... to make him more with rock n roll face. and that led us to have said, has the muddy waters too! "-truth!"
that came in the same leads ... and others, you also will not be here talking to everyone because it is a right guys? and , because they have other chapters ... because we will not talk about everyone else ... go to f ... it's a lot of people ! (laughs). let's take the rest of my life talking about it ... then in 1970 he toured europe performing at the ' montreaux jazz festival ' difficult word : " montreaux jazz festival!"
and after that two more times in mid- 1974 ... even participated in a tv program there are some pictures that we have here at youtube of life ... that his presentation. accompanied, you know by whom? boddy guy! 'the guy', who plays today in active! he is bald but is playing! ohhh! son house died in 1988, very old, with various health problems ... but it is important to say that : his unique style eternalized up and paved the way for guys like: elmore james , which is considered the king of the slide! many licks of son house were copied by elmore james ...
... of course, after he created his own style ... - yes! but that started drinking fountain ... that's it, we prepared a a nice music of son house, which actually ... in the original recordings, he interprets as ' worksong ', which are the songs only sung songs that the slaves sang while working ... this song, son house sings basically with palms marking its rhythm with the feet and claps and that's it ... we will present this song for you!
i hope you enjoyed this chapter ... stand there watching to the next! let's make this sound to you! do not forget to give that 'like' ! go up there and falls in the channel! to watch the next , ok? a hug to everyone ! let's go blues roger? - come on! blues vein ...! ok, this song that we prepared for you, is called "john the revelator" talking about the apostle john wrote apocalypse ... it has to this question means ... so he was the pastor and tals ... it's part of his history ... it is this whole question of religion, and this song has several interpretations, but this
of son house 's pretty cool! and we'll play it for you! ok? ♫ tell me who's that writin', john the revelator... thanks, so do not forget to give that 'like' for the video, to help us to do more ... sign in the channel, and until next time! visit us! mr blues!!! ... see you later, folks!
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