Blues in the Round

Abstract

As Eddie Son House recalled it, traveling with Charlie Patton to his 1930 Paramount Records session was a lot of fun. Patton rounded up House and two other Mississippi Delta musicians, Louise Johnson and Willie Brown, and arranged to have singer Wheeler Ford (of the gospel group the Delta Big Four) drive them to Paramount Records in Grafton, Wisconsin, for Patton's third recording session. Boosting themselves with corn liquor bought early in the trip, the musicians (except for the abstaining Ford) had a raucous time on the road. At one point Johnson and Patton, former lovers, got into a heated argument in the front seat of the car; Johnson put an end to their quarrel by joining House and Brown in the back seat. On their arrival in Grafton, Johnson chose House as her new lover (Perls 1967, 61).

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