
I haven't seen a version here with only Son House's description of "the Bluse", so I put this up. Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. at the Newport Folk Festival, from the documentary Festival! arranged by Murray Lerner (1967). Buy Festival! at Amazon: www.amazon.com [the following was transcribed by "SMH" on blogs.myspace.com "...But now the Blues, what I try and explain all the time, the Real Old Blues, (me an' the reverend was talkin' it over this mornin', he knows it too), the Real Old Blues don't call for no, no jumpin'. If you go to jumpin'... that ain't the Blues. They can name it the Blues, but it ain't the Blues. "The Blues is just by itself. That's the Blues. When you done got lonesome and worried, don't know what to do. Thinkin' 'bout your loved ones, and people, that you wanna be nice to you, and you been nice to them but they ain't and you're deceived by 'em. "Now you got the Blues about 'em and you don't know what to do...you wants to see 'em, wonder where they at, wonder where they going, wonder why they deceive me. I trust 'em with everything I had, I done everything, I turn my heart to 'em with faith and belief in 'em, and then they get up and deceive me. "Now you don't know whether to cut their throat or to cry again. That's the Blues. BLUSE. "...You cry and you cry alone. Weep alone. Then you wanna shut up in the room someplace, you don't want no company too much -- you not mad with the other people but you wanna, lock your door and get in there where you can <b>...</b>
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