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Bukka White and Son House - Masters of the Country Blues
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Biography: Bukka White
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| Bukka White was a delta blues guitarist & singer. He gave his more famous cousin B,B. King his first guitar, a Stella. Bukka himself is remembered as a player of National Steel guitars. He first recorded for the Victor label in 1930 & nine years later recorded for folklorist Alan Lomax. Bob Dylan covered his song Fixin to Die Blues, which aided his rediscovery & propelled him onto the folk revival scene of the 1960s.
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Biography: Son House
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Eddie James House, Jr., better known as Son House, was an influential blues singer & guitarist. His birth is a matter of debate. that he was middle aged during World War I, that he was 79 in 1965, that he was born in 1886. Certainly, the voice in his recordings for the Library of Congress in 1941 & 1942 was not one of a young man. He was born in Riverton, Mississippi. He played alongside Charley Patton, Willie Brown, Robert Johnson, Fiddlin Joe Martin & Leroy Williams. After killing a man in self-defense, he spent time on Parchman Farm. Son House made recordings for Paramount Records in 1930 & for Alan Lomax from the Library of Congress in the early 1940s. He then faded from public view until the country blues revival in the 1960s when he was re-discovered. He subsequently toured extensively in the US & Europe & recorded for CBS records. Like Mississippi John Hurt he was welcomed into the music scene of the 1960s & played at Newport Folk Festival in 1964.
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