Son House, County Farm Blues I

Got the Blues | by gavagai | Thu, Jun 4

The song was recorded by Allan Lomax, for the Library of the Congress (Deep River of Song: The Blues Lineage). At the end of the recording, he asked Son House when he made “it”; House answered “About two years ago”, i.e. 1940. Yet the music was older. The initial musical theme was first recorded in...

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