Eddie James 'Son' House

Instruments: vocals, National steel-bodied guitar
Lifespan: born March 21, 1902 Riverton, Mississippi, died October 19, 1988 Detroit, MI
Style : Delta blues and gospel

Arguably the most powerful and influential of blues singer. A contemporary of Charley Patton and Willie T. Brown, with whom he often performed, House was the primary inspiration for Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters.

DISCOGRAPHY
1964 Blues from the Mississippi Delta Smithsonian
1965 The Legendary Son House: Father of the Folk Blues Columbia
1995 Oberlin College Concert [live] King Bee
1995 Delta Blues and Spirituals Capitol
1996 In Concert [live] Magnum America
2000 Preachin' the Blues Catfish
2000 Live at the Gaslight Cave NYC 1965 Document
2002 Son House Revisited Varese
2003 Delta Blues Sony
Death Letter Edsel

COMPILATIONS
1969 At Home: Complete 1969 Recording Document
1990 1928-1930 Complete Recorded Works of Son House & The Great Delta Blues Singers Document
1991 Delta Blues [Biograph] Biograph
1992 Legendary 1969 Rochester Sessions Document
1992 Father of the Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions Columbia/Legac
1998 Original Delta Blues Columbia/Legacy
2000 The Complete Library of Congress Sessions, 1941-1942 Travelin' Man
2001 Delta Blues [Arpeggio Blues] Arpeggio Blues
2003 The Historical Blues Sessions, Vol. 1 P-Vine Japan
Son House & Blind Lemon Jefferson (1926-1941) Biograph
Son House: The Legendary 1941-1942 Recordings Folklyric
Masters of the Delta Blues: The Friends of Charley Patton Yazoo
Son House With Bukka White Shanachie (video)
Masters of the Country Blues Yazoo
2003 Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues : Son House