Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings flac album

Mississippi John Hurt's latter-day recordings after his rediscovery have somewhat obscured the importance of these debut sides - the ones that made his rediscovery an idea initially worth pursuing. Archival recordings such as Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings are the collector's items that made his rep in the first place, and stand as some of the most poetic and beautiful of all country blues recordings.

Album · 1996 · 13 Songs. More By Mississippi John Hurt. See All. The Best of Mississippi John Hurt. Complete Recordings of Mississippi John Hurt. Blues: The Library of Congress Recordings, Vol. 2. 2005. Mississippi John Hurt: Complete Studio Recordings. Avalon Blues - The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings.

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Mississippi John Hurt's 1928 recordings mesmerized generations of blues performers and, especially, listeners. This CD serves as a reminder of just how wonderful each of these early performances was, rekindled by his miraculous rediscovery in the early 1960's. The 1928 recordings are indescribably superior, as is obvious from the first few seconds of the first song, "Frankie" on this disc. He is charming even when he is singing about murder and mayhem.

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Tracks 1 and 2 recorded on February 14, 1928. Tracks 3 to 6 recorded on December 21, 1928. Tracks 7 to 13 recorded on December 28, 1928. All tracks were originally released on the Okeh Electric label, except Track 6, which was unissued. All tracks are monaural. Your browser does not support the audio element. Nobody's Dirty Business.

The school of John Fahey proceeded from his finger-picking, and while he's not the only quietly conversational singer in the modern folk tradition, no one else has talked the blues with such delicacy or restraint. Since his approach didn't sap his adrenaline or testosterone and his skills matured with the years, the many albums he cut in his seventies (try Rounder's casual Worried Blues 1963, or Vanguard's sweetly eerie Last Sessions) betray none of the diminishment of late Son House or Bukka White

John Smith Hurt (March 3, 1892 – November 2, 1966), better known as Mississippi John Hurt, was an American country blues singer and guitarist. Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt taught himself to play the guitar around the age of nine. His first recordings, made for Okeh Records in 1928, were commercial failures, and he continued to work as a farmer.