Son House Blues Club

Thanks: Cool Blues for the Homeless IV

We’d like to say a big Thank You to all the people who came out to support the fourth Cool Blues for the Homeless. The Catholic Family Center estimated there were about $1000 in donations of cash, clothing and food, all of which will go to help people in the Rochester area.

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Cool Blues for the Homeless IV
March 4th

The 2012 Edition of Cool Blues for the Homeless is shaping up for Sunday afternoon, March 4, at the Beale in Rochester.

This is the fourth installment of the winter clothing drive. All food, clothes and $5.00 donations will go to Catholic Family Center of Rochester.

The tentative schedule:
3:00 Ernie Lawrence
3:30 Wales Road
4:00 Fred Vine
4:30 The Tabletop Three
5:00 The Crawdiddies with Tim Brinduse
5:30 Joe Beard

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The Mission: Preservation and celebration of Delta Blues and subsequent American styles. This includes honoring Delta Blues legend Eddie James (Son House) who was rediscovered in Rochester NY in the late sixties.

Most blues musicians know the name Son House. Most people however don’t realize what a huge role he played in American music.

This website is devoted to the celebration and therefore preservation of an indigenous American style of music: The Delta Blues.

This style began by mixing earlier folk principles from the British Isles. Black folks jammed with their white brethren down south. Live dances and living room parties fueled the jams. The blues took off, by mixing the three chord triad with even more ancient, scales and snake charming rhythms. Just as often, a soloist would play for the party as a one man band. This is where Son House, Charlie Patton and Skip James are found in some of the earliest and most influential recordings.

The delta was part of the earliest Jazz styles. Country music is seeped deep in the Blues. When it’s done lean and mean, chances are there’s a lot of blues going on in there. It influenced most American music.

However many folks have never even heard of Son House. Although he was one of the first, of only a few blues people whose style influenced Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, and others better known, like BB King and the Rolling Stones.

The relatively untapped treasure of the blues roots recordings continues to be fresh source for both listener and musician. The textures are untainted because of these folks comparative isolation. They followed the blues style rules but bent and broke them as well.

The Crawdiddies

Founder and host Gordon Munding