I saw him live ,at Penn State in 1967, with Waterman hovering over him, in a small auditorium, only about 25 guys attending,; I was so close to him, and what I heard and saw changed the musical and cultural arc of my life. If not a god, he is one of God's dearest prophets.
This performance is an excerpt from the documentary film "Devil Got My Woman, Blues at Newport" directed by folklorist Alan Lomax. At Lomax's request in 1966 the Newport Folk Festival Board set up a replica of a Southern juke-joint in which the older Blues performers could play and be filmed. For several, including Son House and Skip James, it was early in their return to live performance after decades of not playing music. The 61-minute film is available on DVD from Rounder/Universal. As it's a legitimate licensed release, it's possible that the various performers' estates may receive compensation.
This was the same show where House got very drunk and started Heckling Howlin Wolf as he was beginning to perform, i think that really messed with Wolf coz Son House was obviously a man he looked up to very very much. Dick Waterman talked about how he was very vigilant in controlling House's Alcoholism while he was his manager and this must've been one of the few times where Waterman lost control. curious to see all the footage from this film to see how that whole scene played out
I saw him in 1967 together with Skip James , Bukka White, Sonny Terry and Browny McGee in Amsterdam concert hall. And what is more; I recorded it with one of the first cassette decks “ borrowed” it from my father..still have those recordings..
Had the honor tonight of seeing this for the first time. Thank you for filming, whoever you are, long dead though you may be, and thank you for posting, mr vevo, and not giving me commercials. Besides stopping me in my tracks and blowing my mind with its naked powerful beauty, it reminded me of what keith once said about all guitar players just being singers at heart. And this guy is a singer.
This is so haunting, beautiful and rare at the same time. Robert Johnson was Definitely chasing this type of blues playing. First time ever heard a guitar cry in black and white footage!
Amen, no one plays like this anymore. Our loss, this is magnificent, I feel more from ten seconds of this than all modern music. We don't even have a good poser copying stuff like this. The torch was passed, and dropped on the side of the road in the ditch. And NOBODY has what it takes to pick it up and carry it on. RIP Son, thanks for the soul strafing blast of gut wrenching angst.
"no one plays like this anymore"and"We don't even have a good poser copying stuff like this",totally agree with you,we are far,very very far from that powerful,intense,moving and beautiful original blues stuff...not mentioning the voice style completely lost today,and maybe it is kind of natural:other times,other story, other music...to me this is forever in the Music Paradise,a kind of eternal and timeless place for our beloved players who bring tears in our eyes when we listen to them...and I find today we have fantastic players in all styles,they just do something different and,no doubt to me,great!
I would know from the start it was Most likely the ghost of Son, or I somehow drifted back in time because no one alive in modern days can play and sing with this pure feeling style and emotion.
@@freedomisntfree2089 jack white is the only person who even comes close IMO so its definitely no surprise that son was his first music inspiration lol
@@NR-ur1dn I like Jack White. But still Son had more aggression and more blues emotion in his playing in other words Jack loves it and plays it but there is a big generation gap of many years. Son lived it during his time. Different feelings
and that's what i call blues ! the truly blues music because he sang with his soul c'mon i'm only 30 years old, i'm a white dominican american man and how come u gonna call this gem a scary ? ( instead I would call it a rare gem)
@@mickfunny4185 FUNNY MICK NOPE!...CANT STAND DENTURES NEITHER..BOYS KINDA LOADED HERE I HAVE TA GET LIKE THAT TA REALLY GIT IT OUT. BUT HIS GUITAR SOUNDS AS SHIT FACED AS PO SON IS WELL WELL WELL..I DONT SOUND AS GOOD AS I THINK I DO WHEN LOADED..BEST PLAY IF POSSIBLE.... SOBER
He quit playing guitar for like 20 years apparently so he probably lost a lot of the technical act of playing blues, but his performance as a whole, if he was loaded or not, made it great.
I don't quite remember when I bought a brand new, shrink wrapped Son House LP record with this song on it; I think it was around 1976. It was right after I had bought a Mississippi Fred McDowell ("I Do NOT PLAY NO ROCK and ROLL) for $1.00 at the Foothill College Bookstore, back in 1975. I love the Blues & I love Son House on this particular song; among some others by Son House. In 2014, I started taking Blues Bass Guitar lessons for about 7 years; playing with Blues bands at a Downtown club in Sunday Jam sessions (until Covid came along & shut everything down, that is...). Oh well. I just want to say that the "REAL" 'Blues feeling' that I've been able to achieve or have with my own Bass-playing was acquired by my first listening to Son House & Guitar players who "influenced" Son House.
That's the best Fred McDowell record, and my favorite. And Son House, while not my favorite blues man, is the greatest of them all, I don't care what anyone says. Without him, there would be no idea of bottleneck slide. No Johnsons, no Howlin' Wolf's, no Leadbellys. It started with him and I am so happy it didn't die with him.
Would you sit right down and you can write to me, I said little girl if you ever get lonesome mind, I said you can sit right down and you can write to me I said I can read your little writing now baby, oh yeah I don't what in this old world it be. You know if i dont ever nomore see you honey, You will forever be on my mind I said what if I never no more, Oh honey you will forever be on my mind You know every time I think about you, Dear god i just cant keep from crying, You know it so hard to love Someone looking over you, I said its so hard to love Ah someone is over you You know it dont look like it be satifaction boy, Oh i dont care what in this ole world you do. You know the blues is nothing but an unwanted ole heart desease, I said is the blues nothing but a Ah but a an unwanted ole heart desease, You know look like the better one you be doggin around boy is so dog gone hard to please, You know somtimes i wish i had my whole heart in my hand, You know Somtimes i always wanted I had my whole heart in my hand, Then my suger somthin Wouldve known how to treat a man.
I don't know how Vevo operates, but Son House died in 88, which means his music is still in copyright. Therefore, if there is an estate of Son House (relatives and so on), they should be receiving royalties from this. If so, it's preferable to the unofficial uploads from which they will receive nothing at all.
I just recently discovered him at a African American music historical museum in Nashville, TN when I saw him I immediately had chills. He looks identical to my grandfather and his brothers. I believe he is a ancestor of mines. ♥️ I feel blessed to experience these live performances of him. Blessing on to him ♥️
Yeah he was a heavy drinker. But intoxicated or not your soul controls you and not the drink. He's soul felt bluesy on this this particular day many moons away. I can hear him missing notes yeah but it was the spirit had it's day.
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I saw him live ,at Penn State in 1967, with Waterman hovering over him, in a small auditorium, only about 25 guys attending,; I was so close to him, and what I heard and saw changed the musical and cultural arc of my life. If not a god, he is one of God's dearest prophets.
Here's Bud's story about seeing Son House live in 1967, at a new blog, deltadownload.com. deltadownload.com/1967-i-was-there-1
ong even robert johnson was influenced by this man here
WOW ‼️
Speaking of god, I'm so very jealous. There are men, myths, and legends.... Son house is the man the are talking about
How old are you my old man!?? I'm 20 and it's pretty cool to read that!!
Son House plays like a broken man. He is the best to ever personify the blues.
His body may have been broken because of a hard life, but not his spirit. That is what the Blues is really all about.
We NEED A REAL, HIGH QUALITY BIOPTIC MOVIE about him...like we had "Ray" a few years ago...Son-House = NATIONAL HISTORIC TREASURE !!!
Who you think would be a good actor to play him?🤔
You can feel his soul in his music. Truly a legend.
This performance is an excerpt from the documentary film "Devil Got My Woman, Blues at Newport" directed by folklorist Alan Lomax. At Lomax's request in 1966 the Newport Folk Festival Board set up a replica of a Southern juke-joint in which the older Blues performers could play and be filmed. For several, including Son House and Skip James, it was early in their return to live performance after decades of not playing music. The 61-minute film is available on DVD from Rounder/Universal. As it's a legitimate licensed release, it's possible that the various performers' estates may receive compensation.
Dick Waterman referred to all this footage as bootleg.
Thank you for the info.!!
This was the same show where House got very drunk and started Heckling Howlin Wolf as he was beginning to perform, i think that really messed with Wolf coz Son House was obviously a man he looked up to very very much. Dick Waterman talked about how he was very vigilant in controlling House's Alcoholism while he was his manager and this must've been one of the few times where Waterman lost control. curious to see all the footage from this film to see how that whole scene played out
Thank you so much
I saw him in 1967 together with Skip James , Bukka White, Sonny Terry and Browny McGee in Amsterdam concert hall.
And what is more; I recorded it with one of the first cassette decks “ borrowed” it from my father..still have those recordings..
Please upload them somewhere, you've got history in your pocket
Please upload this great stuff. Je hebt waarschijnlijk prachtig materiaal. :)
Wow as a kid during the seventies, i remember my Uncle Eugene talking about Son House. Thanks for this video.
Old, but gold.
I was fortunate enough to see him play live and he just blew you away!
He don’t play the blue he is living the blues
Realer than real.
I love this.
The blues. The soul. The real feeling. You hear your soul crying. The best of the best. How can one explain this dame feeling.
Beautiful art like this often comes from the soul's cry of despair.
Jesus Christ. Long live Son House. He’s getting every drip of emotion out of that slide. Never heard anything like it.
His strums are so expressive, too.
Son House I feel is the greatest bluesman in history?Yeah baby Son House ain't no joke.
in blues world there is no greatest
everyone is great in his own playing
Yeah huh! He's my fav, too. His voice is so powerful. Many can play guitar but few can generate that kinda' roar when he wants it.
@@getpeko54 he is the greatest conjoiner and Elmore james, howling wolf
@@johnsolis7631 Conjoiner and Conjurer! I'm gonna go listen to John the Revelator right now.
Charley Patton, Lead Belly, Son House, Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt are the OGs. Robert Johnson came after.
This is the greatest thing ever created. If emotion was a sound this would be it.
Best. Comment. Ever.
Amen that
JUST A FYI,,,,IT IS EXACTLY THAT,,,,,NO EMOTION,,NO BLUES,,,,RITE ON,BROTHER,,,,,YOU GOT IT ! ,,,,
As Son himself described it, "The B. L. U. E. S....."
As real as it gets.
Only one Son House. What a legend
Any young uns coming up today who want to learn to play the Real Blues, need to listen to Son House. He not only played the blues, he lived it.
that's the real old blues
He came before Robert Johnson.
Yes, but after charlie patton @@roberttaylor7064
This is real music with soul and feeling love it this is what a lot of rock and roll is based on but nobody plays with this much emotion now a days
Listen to Love Spreads by The Stone Roses
Respect to him and to his family
Pure, raw, beautiful, perfect.
Had the honor tonight of seeing this for the first time. Thank you for filming, whoever you are, long dead though you may be, and thank you for posting, mr vevo, and not giving me commercials. Besides stopping me in my tracks and blowing my mind with its naked powerful beauty, it reminded me of what keith once said about all guitar players just being singers at heart. And this guy is a singer.
This is so haunting, beautiful and rare at the same time. Robert Johnson was Definitely chasing this type of blues playing. First time ever heard a guitar cry in black and white footage!
Wow...top 10 blues ever...amazing..
Thanks sooo much for posting this piece of Blues History. Son House Rules.
This is magic.
This is voodoo magic
So glad Rory Gallagher mentioned Son House in the Guitar Player magazine interview. Had to check out this ol' blues master.
Son House and Rory Gallagher were awesome guitarists!
If it wasn't for Rory Gallaguer, I wouldn't have known Son House. Now I get his admiration and style.
Amen, no one plays like this anymore. Our loss, this is magnificent, I feel more from ten seconds of this than all modern music. We don't even have a good poser copying stuff like this. The torch was passed, and dropped on the side of the road in the ditch. And NOBODY has what it takes to pick it up and carry it on. RIP Son, thanks for the soul strafing blast of gut wrenching angst.
How about Jack White ?
Hozier does a pretty good job covering Skip James. Just sayin'.
"no one plays like this anymore"and"We don't even have a good poser copying stuff like this",totally agree with you,we are far,very very far from that powerful,intense,moving and beautiful original blues stuff...not mentioning the voice style completely lost today,and maybe it is kind of natural:other times,other story, other music...to me this is forever in the Music Paradise,a kind of eternal and timeless place for our beloved players who bring tears in our eyes when we listen to them...and I find today we have fantastic players in all styles,they just do something different and,no doubt to me,great!
Maybe your lookin in the wrong place - just sayin.
Yes,maybe,I am open to suggestions!
The Great Son House
He Is my friend and I never knew him.
Ohh... 🙂
This one is unexplainable this touch your whole soul.Thank you SONHOUSEVEVO for uploading,
performed with more heart than seen
Imagine hearing this out in the woods at night.
I would probably find him, them tell him how awesome he is. Probably while holding up a lit cigarette lighter and cheering.
I would know from the start it was Most likely the ghost of Son, or I somehow drifted back in time because no one alive in modern days can play and sing with this pure feeling style and emotion.
Lol! 🤣🤣
@@freedomisntfree2089 jack white is the only person who even comes close IMO so its definitely no surprise that son was his first music inspiration lol
@@NR-ur1dn I like Jack White. But still Son had more aggression and more blues emotion in his playing in other words Jack loves it and plays it but there is a big generation gap of many years. Son lived it during his time. Different feelings
King Of The blues
Scary. Because real emotions are scary. Nobody feels a song like Mr. House. Thanks
and that's what i call blues ! the truly blues music because he sang with his soul c'mon i'm only 30 years old, i'm a white dominican american man and how come u gonna call this gem a scary ? ( instead I would call it a rare gem)
Very stoic audience love the vintage video footage!
this is what we call singing with feel
That EMOTION! Fantastic
Son House - Forever on My Mind. (correct title).
Cody Moraga No, Forever on My Mind is not the correct title. The correct title is Levee Camp Moan, from the 1965 sessions.
Thanks
Jazz is one long escape from the blues.
poetcomic1 love some Miles Davis, Paco, Frank Sinatra SRV Nirvana Country. Pretty diversified and can play all including Hendrix on guitar
son fucking house, impossible to listen to without getting goosebumps.
Fantastic! Legend!
This is the BLUES
not named Scary Delta Blues, plus video started after actual original video starts. but it shows the sho nuff, raw genius of SonHouse
no one plays like this anymore
Steven Blankfield do you still have your front teeth,
Why not i do
@@mickfunny4185
FUNNY MICK
NOPE!...CANT STAND DENTURES NEITHER..BOYS KINDA LOADED HERE I HAVE TA GET LIKE THAT TA REALLY GIT IT OUT. BUT HIS GUITAR SOUNDS AS SHIT FACED AS PO SON IS WELL WELL WELL..I DONT SOUND AS GOOD AS I THINK I DO WHEN LOADED..BEST PLAY IF POSSIBLE.... SOBER
He quit playing guitar for like 20 years apparently so he probably lost a lot of the technical act of playing blues, but his performance as a whole, if he was loaded or not, made it great.
I at least try to
Thanks for this. One of the Elements.
Beautiful comment
I don't quite remember when I bought a brand new, shrink wrapped Son House LP record with this song on it; I think it was around 1976. It was right after I had bought a Mississippi Fred McDowell ("I Do NOT PLAY NO ROCK and ROLL) for $1.00 at the Foothill College Bookstore, back in 1975. I love the Blues & I love Son House on this particular song; among some others by Son House. In 2014, I started taking Blues Bass Guitar lessons for about 7 years; playing with Blues bands at a Downtown club in Sunday Jam sessions (until Covid came along & shut everything down, that is...). Oh well. I just want to say that the "REAL" 'Blues feeling' that I've been able to achieve or have with my own Bass-playing was acquired by my first listening to Son House & Guitar players who "influenced" Son House.
That's the best Fred McDowell record, and my favorite. And Son House, while not my favorite blues man, is the greatest of them all, I don't care what anyone says. Without him, there would be no idea of bottleneck slide. No Johnsons, no Howlin' Wolf's, no Leadbellys. It started with him and I am so happy it didn't die with him.
No one plays like this wich is a big loss cause i love this💕✌️😓😫
Gives me chills the whole time
Would you sit right down and you can write to me,
I said little girl if you ever get lonesome mind, I said
you can sit right down and you can write to me
I said I can read your little writing now baby, oh yeah
I don't what in this old world it be.
You know if i dont ever nomore see you honey,
You will forever be on my mind
I said what if I never no more,
Oh honey you will forever be on my mind
You know every time I think about you,
Dear god i just cant keep from crying,
You know it so hard to love
Someone looking over you,
I said its so hard to love
Ah someone is over you
You know it dont look like it be satifaction boy,
Oh i dont care what in this ole world you do.
You know the blues is nothing but an unwanted ole heart desease,
I said is the blues nothing but a
Ah but a an unwanted ole heart desease,
You know look like the better one you be doggin around boy is so dog gone hard to please,
You know somtimes i wish i had my whole heart in my hand,
You know
Somtimes i always wanted I had my whole heart in my hand,
Then my suger somthin
Wouldve known how to treat a man.
The shit just got real. Son House amazing. The 2 dislikes...what is wrong with you, bro?
When Adam met Eve in paradise that's when these BLUES started 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🍀🍀🍀🏝️🏝️🏝️
By god, he could play..........
This song is actually called "Forever on my mind" I'm not totally sure why vevo named it "scary delta blues" Did he ever refer to this song as that?
It gets people's attention would be my guess.
not the name of the song. just a title for the clip. "scary" as in "amazing" in modern parlance.
Love it.
Godamn this so sooooooo good!!!!
he got the blue's ant he boys
Great God Almighty
'one with the song' like a boss!
Legend !!!
There is FINALLY a HOW TO PLAY SON HOUSE GUITAR DVD available. I think it's from Stefan Grossman.
I don't know how Vevo operates, but Son House died in 88, which means his music is still in copyright. Therefore, if there is an estate of Son House (relatives and so on), they should be receiving royalties from this. If so, it's preferable to the unofficial uploads from which they will receive nothing at all.
Quentin Crisp the video isn't monatised (ive watched it dosens of times and never seen an ad) so I'd have to imagine they havent made money off it
Regardless, I'm very glad that they posted it!
Quentin Crisp this isn’t a legit VEVO page y’all are slow
Like I said earlier, Dick Waterman refers to all this Off-hours video at Newport 66 as bootleg.
Honesty is what commercial music dont have. Real Blues can't tell lies. Just the ugly truth.
Son House VEVO? :facepalm:
ill take it any way i can get it
Lol! Oh man. Didn't notice till I read your comment. Yikes.
SON HOUSE ET BUDDY GUY!!! DVP
Maaaaaan, Jack White has this guy all in his spirit.
PURE DIRT ,MAN!
The Scary Part Is This Type Of Music Come From Da Soul
The dude in the audience and the chick with the cigarette... awesome!
The sound of America!
Love it! ❤
Fantástico!
The key to the blues is not to put a performance but play to heal the hurt
I watch him too also Johnson. And beatdown smith...great player
Goddamn that is badass. I got goosebumps.
He sure is scary this sounds powerful.
All I can say is thanks a million for posting this. Damn.
Isso sim é uma relíquia 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
I just recently discovered him at a African American music historical museum in Nashville, TN when I saw him I immediately had chills.
He looks identical to my grandfather and his brothers. I believe he is a ancestor of mines. ♥️ I feel blessed to experience these live performances of him.
Blessing on to him ♥️
The 8 people who disliked this have no soul.
Justin bieber fans
Vevofans
The devil took them!
@@Africa1000
You beat me to it.
Hahahahahaa
A crossroads deal gone bad (as they all do).
left em at crossroads
Ah Son House what a GOD!
You got to feel it
ANOTHER WOMAN'S AFTER MY MY WOMAN
Amen
Feel it !
This lady with cigar, with open legs drives Son House to madness (at 3:53)
She was Son's longtime friend, you can see her in a later footage while watchin - and arguing- Howlin Wolf playin how many more years live in 1966
Me encanta
The best there ever was.
Blue de profundis
GOD JESUS N ST.JOHN R sharing a bottle of wine as they watch "THE MAN OF THE HOUSE JAM"! YA I SAID IT!
Great effects
Hello, nice meeting you
Amazing
THAT VERY LAST NOTE THOUGH. JESUS
Hell yeah
SOMEONE JUST POST A PHOTOGRAPH OF THIS MAN ON FACEBOOK, AND I HAD TO LOOK HIM UP, IT WAS SOMETHING ABOUT HIM, HE WAS AMAZING"
I think Son House was extremely intoxicated at this point. Didn't matter, this is wonderful!
I doubt it.
You may have been extremely intoxicated when you posted this, not sure but I know he would not been able to play at this level if he was intoxicated.
@@deanphelps10
m.th-cam.com/video/xza8J9DZUv4/w-d-xo.html
Yeah he was a heavy drinker. But intoxicated or not your soul controls you and not the drink. He's soul felt bluesy on this this particular day many moons away. I can hear him missing notes yeah but it was the spirit had it's day.
Shittt! Its gonna be my favourite song
perfect
3:32 if you don't understand THAT look you will never understand this sound.
Hot stuff: Dis is the BLUES, man!