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D.C. Blues: The Library Of Congress Recordings (CD)

By: Mississippi John Hurt (Artist)

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DISC 1 for D.C. Blues: The Library Of Congress Recordings (CD) Album By Mississippi John Hurt (Artist)
1   Avalon Blues
2   Richlands Women Blues
3   Frankie And Albert
4   Trouble I've Had All My Days
5   Pera-Lee
6   Candy Man
7   Stockwell
8   Got The Blues That Can't Be Satisfied
9   Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me
10   Talking Casey Jones
11   Pay Day
12   Louis Collins
13   Stackolee
14   Coffee Blues
15   Slidin' Delta
16   Corrina, Corrina
17   Hey Baby Right Away
 
DISC 2 for D.C. Blues: The Library Of Congress Recordings (CD) Album By Mississippi John Hurt (Artist)
1   Pallet On The Floor
2   Waiting For A Train
3   Funky Butt
4   Spanish Flandang
5   Monday Morning Blues
6   Shortenin' Bread
7   Oh Mary Don't You Weep
8   Farther Along
9   Do Lord Remember Me
10   Over In The Glory Land
11   Glory Glory Hallelujah
12   What A Friend We Have In Jesus
13   Where Shall I Be
14   Weeping And Waiting
15   Joe Turner
16   If You Don't Want Me
17   Rubber Dolly
18   Keep Me Knockin' (You Can't Come In)
 

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Living Blues (p.75) - "Picking this one up should be a no-brainer for longtime Hurt fans, while its breadth makes it an appealing introduction for those new to his music."

Title Note

Personnel: Mississippi John Hurt (vocals, guitar).

Recording information: 07/15/1963 - 07/23/1963.

Disproving F. Scott Fitzgerald's claim that there are no second acts in American lives, Mississippi bluesman John Hurt re-emerged in the early 1960s after decades of retirement and obscurity. Rediscovered and embraced by revivalists during the folk boom, Hurt, who had never achieved much renown for his initial recordings in the '20s, became a blues idol in the '60s. The 1963 Library of Congress sessions on these two discs were among several recordings made in a mad dash to document Hurt, who died in '66.

Hurt's graceful, fluid fingerpicking patterns and warm, amiable singing style remained pretty much unchanged from his early recordings. If anything, age had given Hurt's music even more gravitas, giving the feeling of hard-won wisdom being humbly (but brilliantly) dispensed. Hurt's most popular tunes are here ("Candy Man," "Pay Day," etc.), but so are lesser-known delights such as the surreal "Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me," the courtly instrumental "Spanish Flangdang," and the humorous, uncharacteristically bawdy "Funky Butt."

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