Audio file

Title: Special Rider Blues
Date recorded: July 17, 1942
Contributor(s): Performer: House, Eddie (Son); Recordist: Lomax, Alan; Recordist: Jones, Lewis
Genre: blues
Instruments: voice, guitar
Language: English

Subject(s):

Note: Followed by brief discussion of song, which House said he learned in 1928 from Willie Williams in Matson, Miss., and by the tuning (Spanish A).

Location: Robinsonville, Tunica County, Mississippi, United States

Archive ID: 6606B3

Tape number: AFS6606
Track: 3

Part of: Robinsonville 7/42

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