FATHER OF FOLK BLUES -HQ-Born in Mississippi in 1902, Eddie James House, Jr. known as "Son" throughout his life truly was, as many have called him, the Father of the Delta Blues. Of course, Son House did not personally invent either acoustic modal blues or bottleneck slide guitar. But it can be argued that he codified what his friends and forebears had been doing into the style that became known as Delta blues, thereby directly influencing such folks as Charley Patton, Robert