Forum Index > Blues News and Theories > Amazing! Son House was influenced by Blind Lemon Jefferson
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therailroadguy 28 months ago
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This is a great find pedrorm2000 and a big thanks your way for sharing it here.
I know that Blind Lemon Jefferson had a direct influence on a young Lightnin
Sam Hopkins and T-Bone Walker,along with Jefferson being friends with Huddie
Ledbetter.But never knew of Jefferson's influence on Son House,with this mp3
providing some direct recorded evidence of this influence
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Pedro Mendes 28 months ago
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This just adds to the importance of Lemon Jefferson in the whole blues
scenario. I'm reading this great book The Land Where The Blues Began, by Alan
Lomax, and there's a part a related discovery is made. From the book: (Son
House being interviewed) "How it come about that he [Robert Johnson] played
Lemon's style is this -- Little Robert learnt from me, and I learnt from an old
fellow they call Lemon down in Clarksdale, and he was called Lemon because he
had learnt all Blind Lemon's pieces off the phonograph." Now I felt like
shouting. Son House had laid out one of the main lines in the royal lineage of
America's great guitar players -- Blind Lemon of Dallas to his double in
Clarksdale to Son House to Robert Johnson.
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Jamian 27 months ago
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I actually just recently read the origin of that song. Art Laibly of Paramount
Records had asked House, Charlie Patton, and Willie Brown to write a song to
the beat of See That My Grave is Kept Clean. House wrote it in his hotel room
and played it for Patton. House talks about it here:
http://paramountshome.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=112:son-house-interview-1965-&catid=47:new-york-recording-laboratoriesoral-histories&Itemid=54
Dan Beaumont talks about it somewhere around the middle:
http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wxxi/local-wxxi-841661.mp3
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jrewald 24 months ago
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Jamina, Thanks for letting us know! That's pretty cool stuff!
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