What are you listening to? Cna be at the moment or current music interests. I got some Goose Creek on ATM. They have to be one of the best bands ever. They remind me of zeppelin. Not style wise. But for the fact any cd you get by them you can listen to it all the way through and there's not bad bad song on it.
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I've always been a big fan of Charlie Gearheart and Goose Creek. Charlie is the true hillbilly sage, what a great songwriter too.
Lately I've become extremely interested in Eddie James "Son" House, in his music and his incredibly interesting life. The guy was the true king and father of the delta blues. His influence on people like Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Willie Brown, and even Robert Johnson is undeniable. Johnson followed House and Brown (who were a duo) around the Robinsonville Mississippi area and clearly modeled much of his style after House, even "borrowing" lyrics and near complete songs.
It was Johnson's desire to be as good as Son that led him to disappear for close to a year and return with a similar skill level, which along with some other stories led to the crossroads legend. Son was the Ying to Johnson's yang, the good to Johnson's "evil" the light to Johnson's darkness.
In later years even Jimi Hendricks sought Son out, what he got was a 90 minute sermon from the old man.
Offically he died at the age of 86, anyone who knows his real life story knows that he was actually 102, and most of the film we have of him today was made when he was around 80, and he still kicked ass.
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I am into nickleback and linkin park right now. Going to see nickleback soon. already seen linkin park.
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Yeh Gearheart is awesome. What is the story about Hendrix and Eddie James "Son" House? I never heard of the guy but I will check him out.
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A lot of people never heard of him, but he was actually a more important figure historically than Robert Johnson.Originally Posted by MikeJones
Hendrix (sorry I misspelled his name earlier) sought Son out in Rochester New York in 1968. No one seemed willing to point out Son's home. Finally he was directed to a man named Waterman who took Hendrix to Meet Son. After a while Hendrix asked about Robert Johnson and Son repeatedly denied remembering any such person (which he was known to do). Finally after being reminded of Johnson's nickname (Dusty) he smiled and confirmed having known him, saying something like "poor old Dusty..." He then changed the subject to religion and basically preached to Hendrix.
Among the stories surrounding House was that he, Willie Brown and Robert Johnson were walking on highway 61 near Clarksdale when Brown teased Johnson about waiting at the crossroads of 61 & 49 and selling his soul to be better than Son. According to the story Johnson did in fact stop there and Son became angry at Willie for bringing it up. They all stayed the first night because Son refused to leave him there alone but the next day he and Willie had to get to a show and Johnson did stay behind.
Son said that the next time he saw Johnson was about 6-8 months later and he was a guitar master all of a sudden, Son supposedly confronted him about it. Son was also the source that directed Blues Historians to investigate Ike Zinnerman, a little known but highly talented Bluesman from Arkansas, who according to House is the one who tutored Johnson for that 6-8 months.
Historians located zinnerman's daughter who confirmed what House had said. She also told them that her dad and Johnson practiced every night...in the graveyard.
At least one Blues historian claims that whenever House and Johnson were playing the same venue that Johnson refused to face House, he would always play with his back turned. Some people theorize that this was to protect his licks,but he had taken many of them from Son. Some oldtimers claimed it was because he was ashamed and or afraid to face Son.
Anyway, the whole story is fascinating. Then you have the fact that Muddy Waters admitted that Son House was his mentor as well. The story just goes on and on.
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That is really interesting. Zinnerman N Waterman are both Jewish sounding names. Which from what I have read a lot of black musicians felt exploited by Jewish business men.
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Zinnerman was black and not Jewish. Waterman was Jewish,
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Never got into Nickle back. Was a huge Linkin Park fan. I love the year NASCAR came on and they played I tried so hard with clips for the first race.
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I know what you mean. Hey you should have seen linkin park in concert. man they where awesome. I saw them in charlotte nc it was an all day thing. went to ohio to see acdc a few months ago. that was the best concert i seen in a long time. Poison and sabastin bach was in pikeville they where great also.
"Take em one at a time and everything else will take care of itself"...Ole Tob
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