A Blues and Country Collection for Collectors A new CD gathers rare early blues and country records, ... 'Mississippi County Farm Blues,' by Son House. Toggle more options. Embed.

It is this meeting that begins Daniel Beaumont’s powerful biography of House, “Preachin’ the Blues; The Life & Times of Son House” (Oxford University Press, 206 pp., $24.95).

One prominent reflection of the racism that blacks faced in the South figures in House's song "Mississippi Country Farm Blues," recorded in 1930 ... Audio Blues: Following Son House.

In his book Deep Blues, Robert Palmer describes Eddie "Son" House as "a failed preacher, convicted murderer, solid if rudimentary guitarist, and extraordinary blues singer," and I think that ...

Parchman Farm was once one of the country's most notorious prisons ... John Lee Hooker, Son House and Robert Johnson. But life inside the Parchman prison colony was brutal. The institution ...

Son House Bio, Preachin the Blues: The Life and Music of Son House. Source: ... He was convicted and served his time at Parchman Farm prison in Mississippi. House then got a recording deal with ...