Son House – Walking Blues

This version of Walking Blues, perhaps the most recorded blues song ever, features Son House (its original writer) with Willie Brown on a second guitar, Fiddlin’ Joe Martin on mandolin, and Leroy Williams on harmonica. It was recorded in 1941 by Alan Lomax at Klack’s Store, Lake Cormorant, MS for the Library of Congress. Alan Lomax stated this was the greatest thing he ever recorded. It benefits from Son’s still-strong voice, which diminished greatly in the following decades. It features what seems to be “the” Son House riff.

Robert Johnson learned Walking Blues from Son House, and Muddy Waters learned it from Robert:

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