{"id":7856,"date":"2019-11-16T15:01:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T23:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=7856"},"modified":"2019-11-16T15:01:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T23:01:17","slug":"fifty-years-ago-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/11\/fifty-years-ago-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty years ago yesterday&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;on Nov. 15, 1969, Son House was recorded live, performing &#8220;Death Letter Blues,&#8221; &#8220;John the Revelator,&#8221; &#8220;Preachin&#8217; the Blues,&#8221; and &#8220;I Wanna Live so God Can Use Me.&#8221; House accompanies himself on guitar on the first and third songs; the other two are a capella. Since he was Son House, he did a little preaching too. All four songs are worth listening to, but the first song, &#8220;Death Letter Blues,&#8221; is my favorite. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qzdMj7V2xXs\">Listen on Youtube.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SonHouse-1024x780.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SonHouse-1024x780.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SonHouse-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SonHouse-768x585.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SonHouse.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;on Nov. 15, 1969, Son House was recorded live, performing &#8220;Death Letter Blues,&#8221; &#8220;John the Revelator,&#8221; &#8220;Preachin&#8217; the Blues,&#8221; and &#8220;I Wanna Live so God Can Use Me.&#8221; House accompanies himself on guitar on the first and third songs; the other two are a capella. Since he was Son House, he did a little preaching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/11\/fifty-years-ago-yesterday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fifty years ago yesterday&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area-calif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7858,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856\/revisions\/7858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}