It is this meeting that begins Daniel Beaumont’s powerful biography of House, “Preachin’ the Blues; The Life & Times of Son House” (Oxford University Press, 206 pp., $24.95).

Geva Theatre Center will present a four-day celebration of Son House in August. The enigmatic bluesman lived his life battling between sin and redemption. Rochester is not through with Son House.

Four-day celebration of bluesman Son House set for Aug. 26 through Aug. 29. The iconic bluesman was discovered living in obscurity in Rochester in 1964. Opening night includes a reading of the new ...

Son House Bio, Preachin the Blues: The Life and Music of Son House. Source: Just Roots PR September 1, 2009. Guitarist/vocalist Son House was a powerful, impassioned performer and a pivotal figure in ...

In his book Deep Blues, Robert Palmer describes Eddie "Son" House as "a failed preacher, convicted murderer, solid if rudimentary guitarist, and extraordinary blues singer," and I think that ...

About Son House Son House was born approximately March 21, 1902 in Riverton, Mississippi. House’s life was one of “dramatic reversals.” Whereas a lot of blues musicians pick up preaching after they ...

Bluesman’s Son Gets His Due. By Ellen Barry . ... Even as plants poke up around its chassis, it seems the truck -- not the blues or the house -- is the thing that matters to him.

Son House (aka Edward James “Son” House Jr.) was born on March 21, 1902, and passed away on October 19, 1988. During his life, he helped define the Mississippi Delta blues tradition.

The recordings come from a Nov. 23, 1964 performance Son House gave at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana; five months later, the blues legend cut his seminal 1965 Columbia Records album ...

“Son House had this raw sound of the Mississippi Delta Blues that raised hairs on my chest, and I loved how he projected his voice,” Wodarski tells us. “I could name so many more but all ...

While not strictly a "blues film," director Craig Brewer's upcoming "Black Snake Moan" is suffused with the feeling of the blues and features Samuel L. Jackson slipping into the role of a troubled ...