Actually, there is a video of Son House doin' this song a capello... I have it... I think it was done in '64 but it might have been '65...

What I love about what Son did in this filming isn't "John the Revelator" as much as Son's almost unintelligable ramblings about his cobnflicts in being not only a man of faith and a preacher but a bluesman as well...

Son was tormented his entire life because he had been told that playin' blues was playin' the "Devil's music"... This weren't no joke to Son... He believed it deep in his heart and was very repentant come Sunday morning after a Saturday night of playin' the blues... This video of Son is priceless and maybe goes toward exp0laining just how tormented he sounds when he does "John the Revelator"...

BTW, hunt around... I'm not too sure this is on DVD as yet but it is on older video medium...

Bobert