18/03/22
Edward James "Son House" Jr. was one of the most powerful and influential figures in the Mississippi Delta blues style and was noted for his highly emotional singing and vivid steel 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. House, who lived in the Robinsonville-Lake Cormorant of the Mississippi area in the 1930s and early 40s, was a major influence on both Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters and, in turn, all of the blues and is considered by many to be the greatest bluesman of all time.
