This essential LP release opens with an early recording of Son House's signature song, the soulful "Death Letter Blues" - a lament by a man who received a letter one morning telling him of the death...
This album presents the distinctive blues born from the hardships of life-especially African-American life-in northern Mississippi. In addition to their music, this collection includes the men's...
Raimu has been ranked in the realms of the eternal due to his exceptional woice. A colorful voice that is known and cheriched by the French. This was a marvellous gift to the French nation when the...
Robert Petway is famous recording the first version of 'Catfish Blues', which has provided the template for innumerable versions ever since. The fourteen titles here reveal a strongly rhythmic...
Alan Lomax's historic sessions with Delta giants Son House and Willie Brown, recorded at Clack's Country Store near Lake Cormorant in Mississippi in '41 and again a year later. Painstakingly...