Last Sessions

Mississippi John Hurt - Last Sessions

Last Sessions
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Artist: Mississippi John Hurt
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-09-19
Music Label: Vanguard Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home
  2. Boys You're Welcom
  3. Joe Turner Blues
  4. First Shot Missed Him
  5. Farther Along
  6. Funky Butt
  7. Spider, Spider
  8. Waiting For You
  9. Shortnin' Bread
  10. Trouble, I've Had It All My Days
  11. Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me
  12. Good Morning, Carrie
  13. Nobody Cares For Me
  14. All Night Long
  15. Hey, Honey, Right Away
  16. You've Got To Die
  17. Goodnight Irene

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Free Music Review: Did You Hear John Hurt?
Hit: 4 Stars

If one were to ask virtually any fairly established folk music singer in, let's say, 1968 what country blues musician affected them the most then the subject of this review would win hands down. The list would be long Dave Van Ronk, Geoff Muldaur, Maria Muldaur, Phil Ochs, Chris Smithers, Joan Baez and on and on. Hell, Tom Paxton made a song about him-Did You Hear John Hurt? That song still gets airplay on the folk station around where I live.

So what gives? Why the praise? What gives is this- Mississippi John Hurt and his simple country blues were discovered at a time when many young, mainly white urban musicians were looking for roots music. This search is not anything particularly new- John and Alan Lomax went on the hustings in the 1930's and recorded many of the old country blues artist that were `discovered' in the 1960's. Hell, you can go back further to the 1920's and the record companies themselves were sending out agents to scour the country looking for talent- they found the likes of the Carter Family and Blind Willie McTell along the way.

And what made John Hurt so special? Well, for one very clean, very simple picking on the old guitar. For another that little raspy voice that you had to perk up your ear to if you wanted to hear him. But the big deal really is that he sang songs in a simple country way that reflected the hard life of the Mississippi delta, the hard work of picking cotton, the hard fact of being black in the Jim Crow South and the hard fact of needing some musician entertainment on a hot Saturday night after a hard week in the fields. The flow changed when the blues headed north to Chicago and got electrified but if you want to hear a master at work when the sound was simpler then hear John Hurt, hear him playing Creole Belle. And Joe Turner, Spanish Fandango, Beulah land and the rest.

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