Well, Dave MacK... Judgin' from the lack of posts I'm not too sure lotta folks here know who Son House even was???

"Death Letter", fat B***rd, is also one of my favities... I do it pudry much the way I do "Preachin' Blues" so I'm sure to put one of those two sings in my set list at all of gigs... But I like them equally... Go thru periods, tho, where I'll do one fir awile then kinda rediscover the other and do it fir awile... BTW, I do it in open D on my cigarbox Lowebow...

As fir Son's geetar skills, Wes, no, it ain't purdy but it ain't all that easy to do it the way Son did either... He had that thump slap thing down and catch the treble strings on the way back up with alternatin' one or two fingers backpick... I have a video of him and Bukka White and it shows Son's pickin' hand... Took me long time to get that down... BTW, Son does "John The Revelator" on it along with a 5 minute monologue where he really is just ramblin' about the conflict between his relationship with God and being a bluesman... It's purdy eerie... I mean, Son was one God ***fearin'*** man and the blues was almost like an evil addiction he suffered with...

B~