HOUSE, EDDIE

HOUSE, EDDIE (SON). Bluesman (21 March 1902 in Lyon [near Clarksdale], Mississippi). He spent the early years of his life in Algiers, Louisiana, across the river from New Orleans. Although his father had a little dance band, he did not begin playing blues guitar until he was in his mid-twenties. He was an active churchman with primary concern for religious music. His interest in blues developed after he had moved back to Mississippi; he heard some blues performances in a...