Mississippi John Hurt – Satisfied (1960/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:18 minutes | 347 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy International
The popularity of Mississippi John Hurt long after his death speaks to the legendary status this remarkable bluesman. His genuine style of playing and smooth, gentle vocals hold up well over time – this is early country blues, a bit more folkier.
Hurt taught himself to play the guitar around the age of nine. He worked as a sharecropper and played at dances, singing to his melody based, fingerpicking accompaniment. Although Hurt never had success as a recording artist, he was recorded by the Library of Congress in 1964 and Hurt is responsible for other Delta bluesman finding recognization and being brought out of retirement. This fueled the folk and blues revival.
Hurt performed at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival which made him more popular in the folk revival and he performed at colleges, concert halls, coffeehouses and even appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. His fans particularly liked the songs “Salty Dog” and “Candy Man”.
We are proud to bring you this collector’s gem of Mississippi John Hurt performing live!
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Mississippi John Hurt – Mr. Hurt Goes to Washington (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:57:40 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Folk, Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sunset Blvd Records
40 Tracks The Best of the Washington D.C. Sessions In July of 1963, the Library of Congress was able to induce Mississippi John Hurt to come to the Coolidge Auditorium in DC and record dozens of songs as the crowning achievement of his legacy. Mississippi John Hurt sang with a warmth and reflective quality that made him sound like no other blues singer in the world, and these Library of Congress Recordings showcase his gospel-influenced style beautifully…
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Mississippi John Hurt – D.C. Blues – The Library of Congress Recordings, Vol. 2 (2000/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:38:02 minutes | 828 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fuel 2000 Records
The second half of an epic recording session Mississippi John Hurt cut for the Library of Congress on July 15th-23rd, 1963 (the first half is available on D.C. BLUES–THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RECORDINGS VOL. 1), VOL. 2 reveals all the delights of this legendary bluesman. Though his most essential recordings were waxed in the late ’20s for OKeh, Hurt’s complex, fleet fingerpicking style and gentle, conversational singing were little diminished when the artist was “rediscovered” during the folk and blues revival of the ’60s. Over two discs and 37 tracks, Hurt delivers versions of some of his best-known songs (“Nobody’s Dirty Business,” Stackolee”), spirituals (“Will the Circle Be Unbroken”), and popular songs (“You Are My Sunshine”). Hurt’s soothing, pleasant style of rural blues wears particularly well here; VOL. 2 makes an excellent companion to the first Library of Congress set, and would make a fine addition to any blues collection.
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Mississippi John Hurt – D.C. Blues – The Library of Congress Recordings, Vol. 1 (2004)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:44:04 minutes | 950 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fuel 2000 Records, Inc.
The story behind these sessions is typical for bluesmen of Mississippi John Hurt’s generation. Hurt made some milestone recordings in the late ’20s and then disappeared. He was tracked down by a young blues hound in the early ’60s, at the height of the folk/blues boom. In 1964, Hurt ran through his influential repertoire for a series of recordings by the Library of Congress. This first installment of the series is thick with Hurt classics (“Avalon Blues,” “Candy Man,” “Stackolee”), as well as winningly quirky obscurities like “Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me.” Age had altered neither Hurt’s gentle, genial vocal style nor his nimble country blues fingerpicking.
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Mississippi John Hurt – American Epic: Mississippi John Hurt (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:51 minutes | 408 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
Blues fingerpicking guitarist, singer and sharecropper Mississippi John Hurt was born in the heart of Mississippi Hill Country, along the veiny tributaries of the great American river. His moving renditions of “Frankie” and “Spike Driver Blues” were included in Harry Smith’s American Anthology of Folk Music in 1952 and were vitally influential on the Greenwich Village folk music revival of the 1960s as well as John Fahey’s development of the American Primitive Guitar genre. Single LP with single pocket tip-on jacket with soft touch finish.
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