Son House and the Blind Owl Double Team "Levee Camp Moan"

Alan ‘Blind Owl’ Wilson was the primary pillar in the musical resurrection of the King of the Delta blues, Eddie J. “Son” House, Jr. In 1964—sixteen years after Son quit music and a few years before Wilson would form Canned Heat—he tracked House down in Rochester, New York and re-taught him the guitar parts from his 1930s Paramount sessions and Alan Lomax’s Library of Congress recordings – basically teaching Son House how to play Son House.

As far as Delta Blues go, the John Hammond produced, Columbia released Father of the Folk Blues is the high water mark for blues recordings in the 60s. 21 tracks were recorded during the sessions, and nine were released as CL 2417. The song that the doctors and nursemaids can’t get enough of comes at the end of the platter’s flip-side, "Levee Camp Moan.” This mesmerizing 9-minute cut features House’s overpowering, lethal roar, which sounds eerily like rolling thunder as he uncoils with industrial-strength force on his steel National guitar. Blind Owl’s harmonica accompaniment is masterful - perfectly blowing flawless hair-splitting notes, never trampling House’s volatile delivery and blazing bottleneck.

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MP3: Son House – “Levee Camp Moan”

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