He didn’t have any stories or anything to go with it.”
This was just the man and his performance.
But these first shows in ’64 were the plain, naked, raw Son House.
“As he toured in ’65 and ’66 and ’67,” Waterman notes, “he developed stories - they were self-deprecating stories, with humor and things like that. It also reflects a sharp musical focus that diminished in House’s later concert appearances and recordings. In terms of power and intensity, it rivals, and in some cases surpasses, the Columbia album, cut five months later in a New York City studio. My dad had that album and would play it in the house when I was a kid, so I know all those songs by heart.”įorever On My Mind is the earliest issued full-length House solo performance recorded after his rediscovery, at an appearance captured on Novemat Wabash College, a small men’s school in Crawfordsville, Indiana. I was raised on his Columbia LP, Father of Folk Blues. It also is part of my history - some of the first blues music I heard was Son House. This record continues where we started off, with our artists Leo Bud Welch and Jimmy ‘Duck’ Holmes and Robert Finley. I thought that Dan Auerbach would treat the material with reverence and respect.”Īuerbach says, “Easy Eye Sound makes blues records, and not many people make blues records anymore. I had made a few entrees to record companies, but nothing had really come through. They were just here at my home, on a shelf. Waterman says, “I always knew that I wanted this body of tape that I had to come out together, as The Avalon Collection or The Waterman Tapes, as sort of my legacy. The collection is due out March 18, 2022. His collection of quarter-inch tapes - which are being restored to remarkable clarity by Easy Eye Sound - have gone unreleased until now.
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Within months of his rediscovery by Dick Waterman (who became House’s manager and handler), Nick Perls and Phil Spiro, the once-obscure 62-year-old musician was thrust into the public eye by a story in Newsweek magazine and a series of performances at folk music festivals and college campuses around the country.įorever On My Mind, the new album of previously unreleased Son House recordings from Easy Eye Sound, the independent label operated by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, is the premiere release from Waterman’s personal cache of ’60s recordings by some of the titans of Delta blues. But the re-release of his early work - commercial 78s issued by Paramount Records in 1930 and two field recordings by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941-42 - by Origin Jazz Library and Folkways Records had excited fresh interest in a growing community of blues aficionados. in Lyon, Mississippi in 1902, Son House at that time had not played music for more than two decades. The young men were following a trail of clues in their search of a legend, and they found him sitting on the steps of an apartment building at 61 Greig Street.īorn Eddie James House, Jr. On the evening of June 23, 1964, a red Volkswagen Beetle bearing three blues enthusiasts arrived in Rochester, N.Y.
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