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Son House
Also known as Sun House, Edward James "Son" House Jr., Edward James House Jr., Eddie J. House, Jr., Sonhouse, Eddie James House
American blues singer and guitarist (1902–1988)
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- Report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the truth of the information, that a son of General La Fayette, is now within the United States
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Acting · Lyon, Mississippi, USA
Edward James "Son" House Jr. was an American delta blues singer and guitarist, noted for his highly emotional style of singing and slide guitar playing. After years of hostility to secular music, as a preacher and for a few years also working as a church pastor, he turned to blues performance at the age of 25.
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- Blues at the BBC — Self2009
- The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969, Vol. 3 — Self2004
- The Blues — Self (archive footage)2003
- Blues Masters1999
- Devil Got My Woman: Blues at Newport 1966 — Self1996
- Blues Masters - The Essential History of the Blues — Self (archive footage)1993
- Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music — Self1993
- Festival — Self1967
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Son House, Minneapolis, May, 1971 Edward James "Son" House Jr. (March 21, 1902 – October 19, 1988) was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist, noted for his highly emotional style of singing and slide guitar playing.
After years of hostility to secular music while working as a preacher, he turned to blues performance at the age of 25. He quickly developed a unique style by applying the rhythmic drive, powerful delivery, and emotional intensity of his preaching to the newly learned idiom. In a short career interrupted by a spell in Parchman Farm penitentiary, he developed his musicianship to the point that Charley Patton, the foremost blues artist of the Mississippi Delta region, invited him to share engagements and to accompany him to a 1930 recording session for Paramount Records.
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1902 births1988 deaths20th-century African-American male singers20th-century American criminals20th-century American guitarists20th-century American male singers20th-century American singersAfrican-American guitaristsAmerican blues guitaristsAmerican male criminalsAmerican male guitaristsAmerican slide guitarists