The Essential Son House

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1
• 1
  Death Letter Blues
  4:19
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Pearline
  4:31
• 3
  Louise McGhee
  6:11
• 4
  John the Revelator
  2:29
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Empire State Express
  3:39
• 6
  Preachin' Blues
  5:43
• 7
  Grinnin' in Your Face
  2:06
• 8
  Sundown
  6:12
• 9
  Levee Camp Moan
  9:27
• Digital Media 2
• 1
  Death Letter Blues
  5:51
• 2
  Levee Camp Moan (alternate take)
  4:50
• 3
  Grinnin' in Your Face (alternate version)
  3:12
• 4
  John the Revelator (alternate take)
  2:14
• 5
  Preachin' Blues (alternate take)
  5:27
• 6
  President Kennedy
  3:42
• 7
  A Down the Staff
  3:41
• 8
  Motherless Children
  4:27
• 9
  Yonder Comes My Mother
  3:38
• 10
  Shake It and Break It
  2:41
• 11
  Pony Blues
  5:22
• 12
  Downhearted Blues
  7:08

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Release credits

• Alan Wilson
  guitar [1.5, 2.9], harmonica [9]
• Frank Driggs
  producer
• John Hammond
  producer
• Son House
  guitar [2], lead vocals, steel guitar [1.1-3, 1.5-6, 1.8-9, 2.1-2, 2.5-12], vocal [2]

Issues

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  The Essential Son House

  2x Digital Media
  4 February 2014