Review: Son House :: “Forever On My Mind”

Previously unreleased tracks by the blues master

Encouraged by his mentor Charley Patton, Edward James “Son” House Jr., unlike blues legends of his generation like Skip James and Fred McDowell, died at the biblical age of 86. Although rediscovered like the latter in the early ’60s, his Paramount, Folkways and Columbia recordings didn’t influence the new generation of blues adepts as much as they did. sun…

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