Biography

The warm, amiable sound of Mississippi John Hurt is one of the earliest and most powerful influences in country blues. The organic ease of his singing belied an innovative level of craft along with an astounding fingerpicking guitar technique. Born in 1893, Hurt began performing in the early 1900s, and made some seminal recordings for Okeh in 1928. Subsequently, he traded in the musician's life for farm work until his rediscovery in the early '60s, whereupon he made a series of excellent new recordings and achieved great renown for his rural folk/country style.

Top Tracks

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• Avalon Blues

• Blessed Be The Name Of The Lord

• Blue Harvest Blues

• C.c. Rider

• Candy Man

• Candy Man Blues

• Casey Jones

• Coffee Blues

• Farther Along

• Four O'clock Blues

• Frankie

• Frankie And Albert

• Good Morning Miss Carrie

• Goodnight Irene

• Got The Blues (can't Be Satisfied)

• Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight

• It Ain't Nobody's Business

• Joe Turner

• Joe Turner Blues

• Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me

• Louis Collins

• Make Me A Pallet On The Floor

• Monday Morning Blues

• My Creole Belle

• Nobody's Dirty Business

• Oh Mary Don't You Weep

• Oh Mary, Don't You Weep

• Poor Boy A Long Way From Home

• Richland Woman Blues

• Salty Dog

• See See Rider

• Shortnin' Bread

• Since I've Laid My Burden Down

• Sliding Delta

• Spider, Spider

• Spike Driver (john Henry)

• Spike Driver Blues

• Stack O' Lee

• Stack O' Lee Blues

• Stack O'lee

• Stackolee

• Stagolee

• Talking Casey

• Talking Casey Jones

• The Chicken

• Waiting For A Train

• Walking The Floor Over You

• Weeping And Waiting

Discography

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• Satisfied: Live

  Beacon Records (Rock) / Beacon Records

  1997

• The Greatest Songsters: Complete Works (1927-1929)

  Document

  1990

• Sacred and Secular, Vol. 3

  Heritage

  1988

• Shake That Thing

  Blue Moon

  1986

• Last Sessions

  Vanguard

  1972

• The Immortal Mississippi John Hurt

  Vanguard

  1967

• Today!

  Vanguard

  1966

• Blues at Newport

  Vanguard

  1965

• Mississippi John Hurt at Newport

  Vanguard

  1965

• Worried Blues

  Rounder

  1963