Son House
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Edward James "Son" House Jr. was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist, noted for his highly emotional style of singing and slide guitar playing.
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Son House, Minneapolis, May, 1971
Mississippi State Penitentiary, where House was confined
Blues Trail Marker on Greig Street in Rochester, New York, where Son House and his wife Evie lived in the 1960s.
Charley Patton
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Charlie Patton, more often spelled Charley Patton, was an American Delta blues musician and songwriter. Considered by many to be the "Father of the Delta Blues", he created an enduring body of America
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…to the newly learned idiom. In a short career interrupted by a spell in Parchman Farm penitentiary, he developed his musicianship to the point that Charley Patton, the foremost blues artist of the Mississippi Delta region, invited him to share engagements and to accompany him to a 1930 recording session for…
Publicity photo for Paramount Records, the only confirmed extant photograph of Patton, c. 1929