Mississippi John Hurt is authentic southern "country blues". Born and raised in Mississippi in 1893, Hurt learned to play guitar at age 9. He spent much of his youth playing old time music for friends and dances, earning a living as a farm hand into the 1920s. He started trying music as a profesion in 1923 and made recordings in in the late 1920s. The recordings didn't sell and the record company failed and Hurt returned to Avalon Mississippi and obscurity, working as a sharecropper and playing local parties and dances. In 1963, however, a folk musicologist, Tom Hoskins, heard his old recordings and was able to locate Hurt near Avalon, Mississippi. Hoskins encouraged him to move to Washington, D.C., and begin performing. His performance at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival helped boost his popularity amongst the new folk revival audience. Many county and bluegrass artists were influenced by his authentic style and later Much of his repertoire was recorded for the Library of Congress.Mississippi John Hurt
'friends of old time music concert'
NYU school of Medicine Alumni Hall
New York, N.Y.
12-13-1963
Soundboard
1.Do Lord intro
2.Do Lord Remember Me
3.Since Ive Laid My Burden Down
4.C.C. Rider
5.Casey Jones
6.Nobody's Dirty Business
7.Richmond Woman Intro
8.Richmond Woman Blues
9.Let The Mermaids Flirt W Me
10.Spike drivers Blues
11.Stagger Lee
12.Pallet On Your Floor
13.Coffee Blues Intro
14.Coffee Blues
15.My Creole Blues
16.Franky and Jonnie
17.Talking Casey
Filler 1964
18.Monday Morning Blues
19.Pallet on Your Floor
Mp3/320k
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Thanks for this rarity! Always look forward to your next posts. Lots of surprises.
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