Mississippi John Hurt Today Vanguard VSD-79220 Vinyl LP
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Mississippi John Hurt Today! Vanguard VSD-79220 Vinyl LP
CONDITION: COVER - VG (Medium wear) RECORD: VG+
John Smith Hurt, better known as Mississippi John Hurt (possibly March 3, 1892 or March 8, 1893[1][nb 1] – November 2, 1966) was an American country blues singer and guitarist.[4]
Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt taught himself how to play the guitar around age nine. He worked as a sharecropper and began playing at dances and parties, singing to a melodious fingerpicked accompaniment.[5] His first recordings, made for Okeh Records in 1928, were commercial failures, and he continued to work as a farmer. Tom Hoskins, a blues enthusiast, located Hurt in 1963 and persuaded him to move to Washington, D.C., where he was recorded by the Library of Congress in 1964. This helped further the American folk music revival, which had led to the rediscovery of many other bluesmen of Hurt's era. Hurt performed on the university and coffeehouse concert circuit with other Delta blues musicians brought out of retirement. He also recorded several albums for Vanguard Records.
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