Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues: Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings
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Artist: Mississippi John HurtEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-02-01
Music Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Soundtracks:
- Frankie
- Nobody's Dirty Business
- Ain't No Tellin'
- Louis Collins
- Avalon Blues
- Big Leg Blues
- Stack O' Lee
- Candy Man Blues
- Got the Blues (Can't Be Satisfied)
- Blessed Be the Name
- Praying on the Old Camp Ground
- Blue Harvest Blues
- Spike Driver Blues
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Free Music Review: John Hurt - the Okeh recordings, Avalon Blues
Hit: 5 Stars
Two names that come up in any decent history of the blues are Robert Johnson and John Hurt. Robert Johnson is the better known having supplied Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, the Animals, Led Zeppilin and every other 60s group of note with their principle blues rifts and signature songs. John Hurt seems to be less well known and entirely different. There's a distinct folk element in Hurt's work over which the blues are laid that isn't present in Johnson's. Hurt's music nearly always sounds happy, like he's singing it with a smile on his face. But it reminds me of a lot of Mexican peasant music, which also sounds happy and gay, but actually is about a man who wants to kill his wife with his hunting knife for sleeping with his brother. She's usually depicted as hiding under the kitchen table screaming. John Hurt has a few tunes like that; Nobody's Dirty Business for example. It's nobody's dirty business if he wants to belt into his girlfriend or kill his wife, nobody's business but his own. There are a few of those, but at the same time there's his version of Frankie, as in Frankie and Johnny, but in Hurt's version, it's not Johnny, it's Albert. And if you only need one reason to buy this album, or any other complilation of Hurt's music, it would have to be the immortal Stack O'Lee, that bad man, cruel Stack O'Lee. Stack O'Lee has been a figure in American Black men's folk history since somewhere in the 19th century and the versions of it are legion; almost as many as there are versions of Frankie and Johnny. In fact the only song on this album that I reckon they could've well done without is Blessed Be the Name, which basically goes Blessed be the Name, blessed be the Name, blessed be Name, to a churchy hymn tune for 2 1/2 minutes that feels like ten. Very, very boring. So yes, I'd say buy this album if you care about blues, blues history and knowing what it all sounded like back at the beginning. It's a good listen.
Avalon Blues: Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings Poster
Mississippi John Hurt recorded 13 country-blues songs for the Okeh Electric Records company in 1928. Then he vanished. Actually, he never went anywhere. Indeed, he never strayed from his hometown of Avalon, Mississippi. He simply put the guitar down. It was the Great Depression, times were tough, money was scarce, and he needed to work. Nearly 30 years later, a blues enthusiast tracked him down, took him back to Washington, D.C., and suddenly Mississippi John's musical career resumed as quickly as it had finished. He recorded again, but these first songs from the late 1920s--with John's melancholy voice and hypnotic guitar playing at its most inspired--are his greatest musical accomplishments. --Percy KeeganBlues Music CDs
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