Gavin B.

I love this 1967 video of delta blues singer Son House performing at the American Folk and Blues Festival. Son House was born in 1888 on a cotton plantation in Riverton Mississippi where he played at juke joints with legendary musicians like Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson. He recorded a handful of singles for Paramount Records in the 1930s & then dropped out of sight.

In 1964, blues researcher Al Wilson (later known as Blind Owl Wilson of the band Canned Heat) rediscovered Son House living as a retired public works employee. Al Wilson recorded him; leading to sold-out appearances at the Newport Folk Festival and Carnegie Hall.

He performed frequently from 1964 until 1976 when Parkinson's disease made his hands to shaky to play guitar. He lived another 12 years and died at the ripe old age of 100 in 1988. He was truly the last of the delta blues singers.

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There are two types of music: the first type is the blues and the second type is all the other stuff.
Townes Van Zandt