House, Eddie Son

While playing in the Lula railway station, House caught sight of Charley Patton for the first time, and soon he and Patton were hanging out and playing music. Opinions differ about the extent to which Patton and House actually played together in juke joints in the Lula area. Be that as it may, despite their different temperaments—Patton being a blithe spirit compared to the saturnine House—they spent several months together in early 1930, having blues, corn liquor, and women as shared...