The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #53902   Message #832156
Posted By: Bobert
21-Nov-02 - 09:55 PM
Thread Name: Any Catfolk ever hear Son House live?
Subject: Any Catfolk ever hear Son House live?
Well now, over that last couple of years I have really gotten into Son House's music. I know that he quit playin' in '48 when Willie Brown dies and then went to work as a porter on the railroad. And I know that after some 15 years of not playin' that a few white kids tracked him down and persuaded him to get back into playing and that he played the Newport Folk Festival (64?). And I know he was a mentor to both a Young Robert Johnson and later to Muddy Waters.
And I know he lots of probelms with booze and the conflicts he perceived as a man of God with the "devil's music" but that's generally what I know of the man.

Any Catters see him? Any other comments about the man or his music?

Bobert