Death_Letter
Death Letter
Traditional Delta blues song
"Death Letter", also known as "Death Letter Blues", is the signature song of the Delta blues musician Son House. It is structured upon House's earlier recording "My Black Mama, Part 2" from 1930. House's 1965 performance was on a metal-bodied National resonator guitar using a copper slide. One commentator noted that it is "one of the most anguished and emotionally stunning laments in the Delta blues œuvre."[2] Of House's several songs titled "Walking Blues", the 1942 recording[3] is actually yet another version of "Death Letter".