The Delta Blues Giants

[Mister Obvious]

Son House, Skip James, and Bukka White shared the stage at the Newport Folk Festival...

Bukka's percussive use of the guitar body is what really drives it all home for me.

From the comments...

Son House is the only person who can get away with talking through an entire Skip James performance lol

4:40 indeed, it would seem Son is "feelin' it" while Skip plays Cherry Ball Blues. At first I was like, "WTF?" but then I saw the point some other commenters were making about Son adlibbing as sort of a "back up" vocal approach.

Still, like I said in my post about Robert Johnson...

There was a huge amount of jealousy surrounding Robert. I don't even believe that he was ever a "bad" guitar player at all. The only recordings of him are in the last 2 years of his life. I'm gonna need proof he was ever "bad" at playing, and if the only people who could attest to this concept were his competitors on the scene at the time... am I gonna trust them? Um, no. Whether he was "friends" with these people or not is irrelevant... some of life's biggest betrayals come from people who you thought were your friends.

That jealousy toward Robert ended up taking his life... it is believed he was poisoned (dissolved mothballs added to alcohol) by a jealous man who was in some kind of romantic competition with him over a woman.

https://www.npr.org/2011/05/07/136063911...ling-myths

In an interview included in the 1997 documentary Can't You Hear the Wind Howl, Son House recalls that the young Johnson would annoy audiences with his lousy guitar playing. "Folks they come and say, 'Why don't you go out and make that boy put that thing down? He running us crazy,' " House said. "Finally he left. He run off from his mother and father, and went over in Arkansas some place or other."

Now in no way am I trying to suggest Son House was a jealous person and somewhat intimidated by the other blues giants...

But, I mean, hey, he might have been.