 | |  | | | | tracklists of Mississippi John Hurt Blessed Be The Name | | 1.Frankie 2.Nobody's Dirty Business 3.Ain't No Tellin' 4.Louis Collins 5.Avalon Blues 6.Big Leg Blues 7.Stack O Lee 8.Candy Man Blues 9.Got The Blues
(Can't Be Satisfied) 10.Blessed Be The Name 11.Praying On The Old Camp Ground 12.Blue Harvest Blues 13.Spike Driver Blues
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| The songs on this album are especially significant because they represent the only existing recordings of John Hurt prior to the early 1960s when he was "rediscovered" by blues revivalists. In 1928, an unknown Mississippi sharecropper named John Hurt, played regular barn dances behind a white fiddle player who soon recommended Hurt to Okeh Records for recording. Okeh took the fiddle player's advice and recorded two sessions with Hurt, one in Memphis and one in NYC, of which only a single (Nobody's Dirty Business / Frankie) was ever recorded and promptly forgotten. Hurt spent the next 35 years sharecropping, and working for the railroad (where he learned songs like "Spike Driver Blues", a variation on "John Henry"). [...more...]
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