Songs Of Mississippi John Hurt (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Folk  »  Tribute Album
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: February 2, 1999
• Label: Rounder Records
• UPC: 011671121628
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106617570
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #168448 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #2548 in Folk (See Top 100 Folk Bestsellers)
• #5 in Tribute Album (See Top 100 Tribute Album Bestsellers)

Personnel: Bill Morrissey (vocals, guitar); Peter Keane (guitar, background vocals); Frederic Koella (mandolin); Cormac McCarthy (harmonica); Ed Peterson (saxophone); Jamil Sharif (trumpet); David Torkanowski (piano); James Singleton (acoustic bass); David Lee Watson (electric bass); Johnny Vidacovich (drums); Elaine Foster, Lisa Foster (background vocals).

Recorded at Ultrasonic Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana. Includes liner notes by Bill Morrissey.

SONGS OF MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.

As a singer-songwriter whose reputation rests solely on his own compositions, it's an unusual move for Bill Morrissey to record an entire album of someone else's songs. Still, so strong is the influence of country blues legend John Hurt on Morrisey's own work that the result seems as logical as it is satisfying. The artist's creaky, homespun vocal style and simple but nimble fingerpicking lend themselves naturally to these songs, all either written or popularized by Hurt. One can't accuse Morrissey of turning Hurt's music into a museum piece, though. While many of the tunes are traditional guitar-and-vocal exercises, several are updated/transformed via the addition of great New Orleans musicians on drums, piano, horns and more.

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