Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings

Artist:

Hurt, Mississippi John

UPC:

886972331423

See Also:

Patton, Charley Guthrie, Woody

Description:

All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Although Mississippi John Hurt made his best-known recordings in the 1960s after being rediscovered during the collegiate folk and blues revival, his original 1928 recordings remain his finest work. In contrast to Robert Johnson`s hellhound mythology or Bo Carter`s salacious hokum, Mississippi John Hurt`s original output, as collected on AVALON BLUES: THE COMPLETE 1928 OKEH RECORDINGS, is the gentle day to the perpetual night that over-romanticizing blues historians tend to emphasize.
Hurt wasn`t much of a singer even by the non-technical standards of blues, tending to sing in the quiet, thin voice of a man who doesn`t know or care if others can hear him or not. It`s an endearingly genial voice almost entirely lacking in the familiar swagger most people tend to associate with blues singers. Of course, it was as a guitarist that Hurt truly shone, though--largely self-taught and not part of a specific local style, Hurt developed an idiosyncratic but relaxed method that influenced generations of guitarists, most obviously John Fahey and Leo Kottke.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

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 Blues
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

Album Information

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Blues

Subgenre:

Delta

Label:

Legacy

Catalog Number:

64986

Original Release Year:

1996

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Mono

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