You planning on doing any chillin' on your front porch this summer?
Then let this be the soundtrack to those lazy, hazy summer evenings.
The undisputed King of Piedmont and Country blues, allow me to introduce Mississippi John Hurt to the uninitiated. Hailing from tiny Teoc, MS, right where the farmland meets the hill country, this man could be found finger pick and grin to his heart's content.
Living in relative obscurity until his career was resurrected in the early 1960s at the ripe old age of 70, he was nearly forgotten- having released a handful of singles to regional acclaim in the late-1920s he was all but left to the dustbin of history.
Long live the immortal John Hurt.
Mississippi John Hurt - The Immortal (1967; Vanguard Records)
Then let this be the soundtrack to those lazy, hazy summer evenings.
The undisputed King of Piedmont and Country blues, allow me to introduce Mississippi John Hurt to the uninitiated. Hailing from tiny Teoc, MS, right where the farmland meets the hill country, this man could be found finger pick and grin to his heart's content.
Living in relative obscurity until his career was resurrected in the early 1960s at the ripe old age of 70, he was nearly forgotten- having released a handful of singles to regional acclaim in the late-1920s he was all but left to the dustbin of history.
Long live the immortal John Hurt.
Mississippi John Hurt - The Immortal (1967; Vanguard Records)
