The Original Delta Blues (1998) more music like this

by Son House

Columbia/Legacy's The Original Delta Blues is a fine distillation of the label's double-disc set Father of the Delta Blues, containing 16 highlights from that comprehensive overview of his '60s rediscovery recordings. Curious listeners who are intimidated by the size of the previous set are advised to pick up this terrific sampler instead. ...

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The Slide Guitar: Bottles, Knives, & Steel, Vol. 1 (1991) more music like this

by Various Artists

This CD is a hodgepodge sampling of blues records featuring mostly pre-war slide guitarists ranging from the simplicity of Barbecue Bob (who was much better-known as a pianist) and Sylvester Weaver to the sophistication of Blind Willie McTell (backing Ruth Willis on "Experience Blues") and Tampa Red. Among the highlights are Blind Willie Johnson's ...

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Father of the Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions (1992) more music like this

by Son House

After being rediscovered by the folk-blues community in the early '60s, Son House rose to the occasion and recorded this magnificent set of performances. Allowed to stretch out past the shorter running time of the original 78s, House turns in wonderful, steaming performances of some of his best-known material. On some tracks, House is supplemented ...

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Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Son House (2003) more music like this

by Son House

This collection spotlights the great Delta bluesman Son House at three distinct points in his life. Included here are three of his 78s issued in the 1930s by Paramount Records, several of the Library of Congress field recordings done by Alan Lomax in 1941-1942, and a sampling of rediscovered 1960s concert pieces, including a riveting version of ...

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Revisited (2002) more music like this

by Son House

Revisited is a double-disc of live Son House recordings from the Mississippi delta blues legend's twilight years on the folk revival circuit. Disc one is a mid-'60s performance at Oberlin College; after a scholarly introduction by his then-manager Dick Waterman, House starts out in fine form, prefacing each song with long, discursive monologues ...

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The Sound of the Delta (1966) more music like this

by Various Artists

Blues scholar Pete Welding assembled these 19 recordings -- most solo, all acoustic, most prominently featuring guitar and vocal -- between 1963 and 1965, just as the blues revival was gathering steam. This isn't the best Delta blues compilation, as an introduction or a general sampler. If you can't get enough of the stuff, though, it certainly ...

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Cryin' the Blues (2003) more music like this

by Davis Coen

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Live at Gaslight Cafe, 1965 (2000) more music like this

by Son House

Son House's earliest recordings, three two-sided 78s ("My Black Mama," "Preachin' the Blues," "Dry Spell Blues") recorded in New York on May 28, 1930, proved to be a hard act to follow, and House never really equaled these fierce, driving performances again, although he came close. The field recordings he did for Alan Lomax in 1941 and 1942 are ...

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Legends of Country Blues, Vol. 1 (2007) more music like this

by Son House/Mississippi John Hurt

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