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The Best of Mississippi John Hurt [Vanguard] (CD)

By: Mississippi John Hurt (Artist)

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Mississippi John Hurt Artist Snapshot:

The warm, amiable sound of Mississippi John Hurt is one of the earliest and most powerful influences in country blues. The organic ease of his singing belied an innovative level of craft along with an astounding fingerpicking guitar technique. Born in 1893, Hurt began performing in the early 1900s, and made some seminal recordings for Okeh in 1928. Subsequently, he traded in the musician's life for farm work until his rediscovery in the early '60s, whereupon he made a series of excellent new recordings and achieved great renown for his rural folk/country style.

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DISC 1 for The Best of Mississippi John Hurt [Vanguard] (CD) Album By Mississippi John Hurt (Artist)
1   Here Am I, Oh Lord, Send Me
2   I Shall Not Be Moved
3   Nearer My God To Thee
4   Baby What's Wrong With You
5   It Ain't Nobody's Business
6   Salty Dog Blues
7   Coffee Blues
8   Avalon, My Home Town
9   Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor
10   Since I've Laid This Burden Down
11   Sliding Delta
12   Monday Morning Blues
13   Richland Women Blues
14   Candy Man
15   Stagolee
16   My Creole Belle
17   C.C. Rider
18   Spanish Fandango
19   Talking Casey
20   Chicken
21   You Are My Sunshine
 

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Title Note

2 LPs on 1 CD.

The title of this double-LP set, later reissued on one CD, is slightly deceptive--although many of these songs were initially recorded by Mississippi John Hurt in 1928 during his brief flirtation with Okeh Records, this is not a compilation. Instead, it's a concert Hurt recorded at Ohio's Oberlin College in April of 1965, shortly after blues historian Tom Hoskins had rediscovered the bluesman in his north Mississippi hometown at the age of 71 and persuaded him to return to the music that he had abandoned 35 years earlier. Hurt sings and plays these 21 songs so effortlessly, and with the exact same genial good humor of his earlier recordings, that listening to THE BEST OF MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT next to a collection of his '20s sessions like AVALON BLUES: THE COMPLETE 1928 OKEH RECORDINGS, it's easy to imagine that no time at all had passed between them. Hurt died just over a year after this concert, so THE BEST OF MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT stands as a beautiful summation of his quiet genius.

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