The Complete Studio Recordings Mississippi John Hurt

Mississippi John Hurt
Label: Vanguard Records
Number of Discs: 3
Format: Audio CD
Release date:31st October 2000

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Track Listing

1. Payday
2. I'm Satisfied
3. Candy Man
4. Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
5. Talking Casey
6. Corrina, Corrina
7. Coffee Blues
8. Louis Collins
9. Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
10. If You Don't Want Me Baby
11. Spike Driver Blues
12. Beulah Land
13. Since I've Laid My Burden Down
14. Moanin' the Blues
15. Stocktime (Buck Dance)
16. Lazy Blues
17. Richland Woman Blues
18. Wise and Foolish Virgins (Tender Virgins)
19. Hop Joint
20. Monday Morning Blues
21. Got the Blues (Can't Be Satisfied)
22. Keep on Knocking
23. The Chicken
24. Stagolee
25. Nearer My God to Thee
26. Poor Boy, Long Ways from Home
27. Boys, You're Welcome
28. Joe Turner Blues
29. First Shot Missed Him
30. Farther Along
31. Funky Butt
32. Spider, Spider
33. Waiting for You
34. Shortnin' Bread
35. Trouble I Had All My Days
36. Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me
37. Good Morning, Carrie
38. Nobody Cares for Me
39. All Night Long
40. Hey, Honey, Right Away
41. You've Got to Die
42. Goodnight Irene

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Gentle, graceful, subtle, sweet--these aren't descriptions generally applied to the blues, but they offer a sense of Mississippi John Hurt's uniqueness and enduring legacy. Rediscovered during the 1960s folk boom after last recording in the late 1920s, Hurt cut the three albums compiled here when he was in his early 70s. His conversational phrasing sounds as natural as breathing, while his ragtime-tinged fingerpicking on acoustic guitar reveals more complexity the closer you listen. Beyond blues classics like "Candy Man" (the sly sensualist wasn't referring to lollipops), Hurt's range encompasses everything from folkish narratives ("Talking Casey," "Spike Driver Blues") to Southern spirituals ("Nearer My God to Thee," "Farther Along"). Though Hurt died in 1966, shortly after the last of these sessions, the music still sounds so fresh, you can almost hear the twinkle in his eye. --Don McLeese

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