Complete Recorded Works of Son House & The Great Delta Blues Singers
isn't entirely devoted to
Son House
-- there are cuts by several other musicians, including
Willie Brown
,
Garfield Akers
Rube Lacey
and
Joe Calicott
-- but this disc, which contains a complete 1930 session, is the best place to get his earliest songs (
"My Black Mama,"
"Preachin' the Blues,"
"Dry Spell Blues"
), which remain among his masterworks. ~ Thom Owens