Son House – Death Letter (VG+/VG+) – LP, UK 1985

Death Letter is an LP by Son House from 1985 released on the Edsel Records label.

About this album

Father Of Folk Blues is a landmark Delta blues album that reintroduced Son House as one of the form’s most commanding voices. Issued in 1965, it documents his late-career rediscovery and places his raw singing, bottleneck guitar and unadorned intensity back at the centre of the blues tradition. The album became an important link between the pre-war Delta sound and the 1960s folk and blues revival, helping younger listeners hear the power of songs such as Death Letter, John The Revelator and Grinning In Your Face in a new light. Its influence rests on its directness, authority and historical weight.