Título: Son House
Seção: Blues performer
Background: Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. (March 21, 1902 - October 19, 1988) was an American delta blues singer and guitarist, noted for his highly emotional style of singing and slide guitar playing. After years of hostility to secular music, as a preacher and for a few years also as a church pastor, he turned to blues performance at the age of 25. He quickly developed a unique style by applying the rhythmic drive, vocal power and emotional intensity of his preaching to the newly learned idiom. In a short career interrupted by a spell in Parchman Farm penitentiary, he developed 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.

Conteúdo: In 1927, at the age of 25, House underwent a change of musical perspective as rapid and dramatic as a religious conversion. In a hamlet south of Clarksdale, he heard one of his drinking companions, either James McCoy or Willie Wilson (his recollections differed), playing bottleneck guitar, a style he had never heard before. He immediately changed his attitude about the blues, bought a guitar from a musician called Frank Hoskins, and within weeks was playing with Hoskins, McCoy and Wilson. Two songs he learned from McCoy would later be among his best known: "My Black Mama" and "Preachin' the Blues". Another source of inspiration was Rube Lacey, a much better known performer who had recorded for Columbia Records in 1927 (no titles were released) and for Paramount Records in 1928 (two titles were released). In an astonishingly short time, with only these four musicians as models, House developed to a professional standard a blues style based on his religious singing and simple bottleneck guitar style.  Around 1927 or 1928, he had been playing in a juke joint when a man went on a shooting spree, wounding House in the leg, and he allegedly shot the man dead. House received a 15-year sentence at the Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman Farm), of which he served two years between 1928 and 1929. He credited his re-examination and release to an appeal by his family, but also spoke of the intervention by the influential white planter for whom they worked. The date of the killing an

user: What were the names of some of the songs he sang?

assistant: My Black Mama" and "Preachin' the Blues".

user: Were they his original songs or covers?

assistant: Two songs he learned from McCoy would later be among his best known: "

user: How did he become a blues singer?

assistant: He immediately changed his attitude about the blues,

user: How did his attitude change?

assistant: Another source of inspiration was Rube Lacey,

user: Who was Rube Lacey?

assistant: a much better known performer who had recorded for Columbia Records in 1927

user: What kind of blues was he known for?

assistant: House developed to a professional standard a blues style

user: Did he play an instrument?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: Anything interesting happen to him?

assistant: he allegedly shot the man dead.

user: Why did he shoot him?

assistant: he had been playing in a juke joint when a man went on a shooting spree, wounding House in the leg,