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Legendary Delta bluesmans Columbia LP now a 200-gram 45 RPM 2LP set!
45 RPM 2LP set includes bonus track: Motherless Children
Lacquers cut by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the original master tape
Plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
Heavyweight glossy tip-on jacket by Stoughton Printing
Mississippis Son House was already legendary for a small collection of live field recordings made by folklorist Alan Lomax in 1941 and 1942, and for having taught some important licks to both Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters before he was rediscovered by a new generation of college-age fans in 1964.
The Father of the Delta Blues recorded this namesake LP for Columbia Records a year later in 1965. Its become, in the words of Living Blues magazine Essential recordings by one of the greatest bluesmen ever. And now, Analogue Productions presents a reissue unmatched in sonic quality and luxury presentation. For our version we turned to Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound to remaster the recording from the original master tapes. The freshly cut lacquers were then plated and pressed on 200-gram vinyl by our own Quality Record Pressings. The Hybrid Stereo SACD version was authored for SACD by Gus Skinas at the Super Audio Center in Boulder, Colo.
Son was born Eddie James House, Jr., on March 21, 1902, in Riverton, Miss. By the age of 15, he was preaching the gospel in various Baptist churches as the family seemingly wandered from one plantation to the next. He didnt even bother picking up a guitar until he turned 25; to quote House, I didnt like no guitar when I first heard it; oh gee, I couldnt stand a guy playin a guitar. I didnt like none of it. But if his ambivalence to the instrument was obvious, even more obvious was the simple fact that Son hated plantation labor even more and had developed a taste for corn whiskey. After drunkenly launching into a blues at a house frolic in Lyon, Miss., one night and picking up some coin for doing it, the die seemed to be cast; Son House may have been a preacher, but he was part of the blues world now.
Now, sit back and enjoy one of the generes greatest, on a reissue thats the best thats been made to date. So authentic, so real thats the Analogue Productions difference.
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