March 21: The Late Son House was (probably) born in 1902
“Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.”
~Muddy Waters
“People keep asking me where the blues started and all I can say is that when I was a boy we always was singing in the fields. Not real singing, you know, just hollerin’, but we made up our songs about things that was happening to us at the time, and I think that’s where the blues started.”
~Son House (1965)
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March 8: Mississippi John Hurt was born in 1893
“The Blues ain’t nothin’ but a good woman on your mind.”
~Mississippi John Hurt
No blues singer ever presented a more gentle, genial image than Mississippi John Hurt. A guitarist with an extraordinarily lyrical and refined fingerpicking style, he also sang with a warmth unique in the field of blues, and the gospel influence in his music gave it a depth and reflective quality unusual in the field.
~Bruce Eder (allmusic.com)
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