Browsing: Dick Waterman

Marshall Chess himself told me, “I always had deep respect for his knowledge and honesty and true love of the blues.”

The blues world lost another one of its disciples, Jesse Graves, whose real name was Michael Floyd. He passed away…

“Upon hearing it, I was haunted by this particular Son House song and lyrics and thought about rumination, being a trace of one’s self lost in the eroded and overgrown lands of the past.” – Video Director Robert Schober

‘Forever On My Mind’ by Son House was recorded in the fall of 1964 (ahead of 1965 “rediscovery” album) and never released. Features first-time-on-record title track “Forever On My Mind,” plus never-heard recordings of “Death Letter” and “Preachin’ Blues”

Like Forest Gump, Dick Waterman has always been where the tipping points are in blues.

Although he never heard blues music at home, he became one of the most influential figures in Blues during the twentieth century.

When young sportswriter and photographer Dick Waterman discovered the man known as Son House on a porch in Rochester, New York in 1964, he had no idea what he would find…