Biography Early life Mississippi State Penitentiary, where House was confined In 2017, his single "Preachin' the Blues" was inducted in to the Blues Hall of Fame. He recorded several albums, and some informally taped concerts have also been issued as albums. With their encouragement, he relearned his repertoire and established a career as an entertainer, performing for young, mostly white audiences in coffeehouses, at folk festivals and on concert tours during the American folk music revival, billed as a " folk blues" singer.
In 1964, a group of young record collectors discovered House, whom they knew of from his records issued by Paramount and by the Library of Congress. The following year, he left the Delta for Rochester, New York, and gave up music. Work for the Library of Congress and Fisk University. In 19, House and the members of his band were recorded by Alan Lomax and John W. There he was a formative influence on Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. Locally, House remained popular, and in the 1930s, together with Patton's associate Willie Brown, he was the leading musician of Coahoma County.
Issued at the start of the Great Depression, the records did not sell and did not lead to national recognition. 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 Paramount Records.
He quickly developed a unique style by applying the rhythmic drive, vocal power and emotional intensity of his preaching to the newly learned idiom. (Ma – October 19, 1988) was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist, noted for his highly emotional style of singing and slide guitar playing.Īfter years of hostility to secular music, as a preacher and for a few years also working as a church pastor, he turned to blues performance at the age of 25.
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