MONKEY JUNK

In this video, Son House explains the blues. Listen up, he taught Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Elmore James everything they know. Or knew, I guess. At any rate, he's the man.

Son House was born in in Mississippi at the turn of the 20th century. He grew up picking cotton until he began playing guitar. He killed a man in 1928 and was sentenced to the Parchment Farm. THEE Parchment Farm. When he was released, he met Charlie Patton and Patton took him under his wing.

Now, for those of you who don't know who Charlie Patton is, he IS Delta Blues. He INVENTED the blues. He makes Robert Johnson look like a jerk.

Anywho, it was through Patton that Son House got to record some sides for Paramount. Then like most geniuses, House disappeared into obscurity until being rediscovered by Alan Lomaxin the 1950s. And then all the Beatniks made him famous until he died in 1988. So sick...