Collections include the unique contemporary compositions and performances found in the other minds collection, the hundreds of popular songs from the early 20th century found in the 78 rpm collection and oral history projects. Please support the mississippi john hurt blues foundation objectives. Mississippi john hurt you got to walk that lonesome. John sebastian and happy traum, whose friendship goes back to the sixties, had the privilege of. John smith hurt, better known as mississippi john hurt july 3, 1893 or march 8, 1892. This concert has a handrecorded sound about it, but nonetheless hurts playing and singing are wellcaptured and up to his usual high standards. Mississippi john hurt guitar tab books, instruction dvds. You can hear the influence that hurt had on legions of musicians, particularly in the 60s and 70s. Mississippi john hurt was an early country blues legend whose warm, amiable sound and longevity also made him a major figure during the 60s blues revival. As a young man, he recorded a few albums, but the gentle artistry of his playing and singing were not appreciated at the time, when blues was what rock is. Mississippi john hurt avalon blues the complete 1928 okeh recordings. The complete studio recordings mississippi john hurt. One of the best albums of country and folk blues ever recorded. Listen to your favorite songs from mississippi john hurt revisited by mississippi john hurt now.
To preserve the family and musical history of mississippi john hurt. Mississippi john hurt revisited by mississippi john hurt. Mississippi john hurt the complete studio recordings mississippi john hurt. Mississippi john hurt, american countryblues singer and guitarist who first recorded in the late 1920s but whose greatest fame and influence came when he was rediscovered in the early 1960s at the height of the american folk music revival. Everything on here from mjh is a must download for the bluesminded ipod owner. He is not widely known, but his music is soft, melodic, and amazingly gentle. On the best of mississippi john hurt his crowd interactions are brief and on point and he sounds like he had more fun at the oberlin cafeteria than he did working on any of the four studio albums.
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He worked as a sharecropper and began playing at dances and parties, singing to a melodious fingerpicked accompaniment. The gospel of when i lay my burden down is as uplifting as any hymnal, moaning the blues lays an accent on a low bass note that brings out the swamp in hurts delta. After poring over with davis for eightspot long time in high school school and college, he erudite and studied with other body politic vapours guitarists. Contents aint no tellin 3 avalon blues 4 baby whats wrong with you. Today is mississippi john hurts first and finest studio release since his rediscovery on his. Mississippi john hurt avalon blues the complete 1928. John cale the roundhouse, london, england, january 17, 1971 way back in 1971, john cale made his first live appearance as a solo artist.
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