Son House - Father Of The Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions

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1-1	Death Letter	4:21
1-2	Pearline	4:34
1-3	Louise McGhee	6:13
1-4	John The Revelator	2:32
1-5	Empire State Express	3:41
1-6	Preachin' Blues	5:45
1-7	Grinnin' In Your Face	2:08
1-8	Sundown	6:14
1-9	Levee Camp Moan Harmonica – Al Wilson	9:27
2-1	Death Letter	5:53
2-2	Levee Camp Moan Harmonica – Al Wilson	4:52
2-3	Grinnin' In Your Face	3:14
2-4	John The Revelator	2:17
2-5	Preachin' Blues	5:29
2-6	President Kennedy	3:44
2-7	A Down The Staff	3:42
2-8	Motherless Children	4:30
2-9	Yonder Comes My Mother Guitar – Al Wilson	3:40
2-10	Shake It And Break It	2:43
2-11	Pony Blues	5:24
2-12	Downhearted Blues	7:08

Companies, etc.

• Pressed By – Digital Audio Disc Corp.

Credits

• Arranged By – Son House (tracks: 1-4, 2-8, 2-9)
• Art Direction – Howard Fritzson
• Artwork [Cover Photo Hand-tinting] – Katsumi Kawamura
• Coordinator [Packaging Coordinator] – Hope Chasin
• Engineer [Digital Restoration And Engineering] – David Mitson, Mark Wilder
• Executive Producer, Supervised By [Project Director] – Gary Pacheco
• Liner Notes, Executive Producer, Reissue Producer [Roots N' Blues Series Producer] – Lawrence Cohn
• Producer [Original Recordings] – Frank Driggs, John Hammond
• Vocals – Son House (tracks: 1-4, 1-7, 2-3, 2-4)
• Vocals, Steel Guitar [Steel-bodied National Guitar] – Son House (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3, 1-5, 1-6, 1-8 to 2-2, 2-5 to 2-12)
• Written-By – Son House (tracks: 1-1 to 2-3, 2-5 to 2-7, 2-10 to 2-12)

Notes

Recorded in New York City, April 12-14, 1965.
Digital restoration and engineering at Sony Studios, Los Angeles, and Sony Studios New York.

Tracks 2-1 to 2-5 are previously unreleased alternate takes. Tracks 2-6 to 2-12 are previously unissued tracks.

The track durations listed on the release are in error; the actual durations are given above.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 0 7464-48867-2
• Barcode (scanned): 074644886726
• SPARS Code: AAD
• Other (Individual cat # of CD 1): CK 52704
• Other (Individual cat # of CD 2): CK 52705
• Matrix / Runout (CD 1, mirrored): E2 1A CK52704 01
• Matrix / Runout (CD 2, mirrored): E3 1A CK52705 01

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
CL 2417	Son House	Father Of Folk Blues ‎(LP)	Columbia	CL 2417	US	1965
ED 167	Son House	Death Letter ‎(LP, Album, RE)	Edsel Records	ED 167	UK	1985
C2K 48867	Son House	Father Of The Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions ‎(2xCD, Album, RE)	Legacy, Columbia	C2K 48867	US	1992
CL 2417	Son House	Father Of Folk Blues ‎(LP, RE)	Columbia	CL 2417	US	2001
889853172412	Son House	Father Of The Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions ‎(2xLP, Club, Ltd, Num, Cok)	Columbia	889853172412	US	2017