Imagine a 14 year old kid circa 1974 spending a portion of his paper route earnings to buy the 6 LP box set to hear solos by Tenor Saxophone solos by Illinois Jacquet and Flip Philips and Dizzy Gillespie and Howard McGhee who appear on his father's Jazz At The Philharmonic records and knowing a few other Jazz Musicians like Sonny Stitt and Dexter Gordon and Milt Buckner, then hearing Rahsaan Roland Kirk for the first time! This was the first Kirk solo I ever heard! He instantly replaced Illinois Jacquet as the kids favorite Tenor Sax player. That kid was me, a fat kid who read Science Fiction and listened to Jazz. I never found a Tenor Sax player I liked better than R. R. Kirk. Not even John Coltrane or Johnny Griffin.
I wholeheartedly disagree with your statements that Stone House was not a good technical guitar player. Is early recordings were phenomenal. Don't compare them with his we discovered recordings after all those years of not playing and being an alcoholic.
That live version of Say a Little Prayer has to be the most mind altering experience to hear and watch, it is outstanding. He must have been an incredible person, such a musical polymath.
I don’t get this guy’s repeated emphasis on how Son House wasn’t a technically good guitar player. He is right that the “soul” of the singing and performance is what really matters, but in my view, House’s guitar playing is perfect. I mean what really is “good” guitar playing, ultimately? With House, there’s a singular genius of musicality in the entire package of his playing and singing and energy. It all goes together and it is brilliant and absolutely unduplicatable.
This RU-vid video shows what’s left of the old town where Son House met Charley Patton in 1930. m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-10_tEjyNuNc.html
Wow I saw him in Montreal at this little club…early 1970… I was only 16 years old… I heard he was awesome …still have the red pamphlet with his name on it in my diary….so I beg the guy at the front door to let me in… since I didn’t drink alcohol… Montreal was a very safe place for a young beautiful teenager girl without parents… I had the time of my life… Kirk was young too then… simply super music… !!!!!🎷👏👏👏👏🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
I want to Thank You for mentioning at the end of your Video that you have to have soul, you have to have it running and coursing thru your veins. I'm a White Boy and have had many Black People look and say in shock when I played and sang "The White Boy's Got Soul". I just laughed because you gotta have been to hell and back. You got the blues, Charley Patton was doing things with the Guitar that people only seen Jimi Hendrix do
