"Mississippi" John Smith Hurt (March 8, 1892 ^[1], Teoc, Carroll County, Mississippi - November 2, 1966, Grenada, Mississippi) was an influential blues singer and guitarist. March 8 poster from Portugal March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Carroll County is a county located in the state of Mississippi. ... Official language(s) English Capital Jackson Largest city Jackson Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 32nd 125,546 km² 275 km 545 km 3 30°13N to 35°N 88°7W to 91°41W Population  - Total (2000)  - Density Ranked 31st 2,697,243 23. ... November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Official language(s) English Capital Jackson Largest city Jackson Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 32nd 125,546 km² 275 km 545 km 3 30°13N to 35°N 88°7W to 91°41W Population  - Total (2000)  - Density Ranked 31st 2,697,243 23. ... The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression. ... A guitar is a stringed musical instrument. ...

Mississippi John Hurt (left) and Skip James

Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, he learned to play guitar at age 9. He spent much of his youth playing old time music for friends and dances, earning a living as a farm hand into the 1920s. In 1923 he often partnered with the fiddle player Willie Narmour (Carroll County Blues) as a substitute for his regular partner Shell Smith. When Narmour got a chance to record for OKeh Records in reward for winning first place in a 1928 fiddle contest, Narmour recommended John Hurt to OKeh Records producer Tommy Rockwell. After auditioning "Monday Morning Blues" at his home, he took part in two recording sessions, in Memphis and New York City (See Discography below). The "Mississippi" tag was added by OKeh as a sales gimmick. After the commercial failure of the resulting disc and OKeh records going out of business during the depression, Hurt returned to Avalon and obscurity working as a sharecropper and playing local parties and dances. Image File history File links This work is copyrighted. ... Image File history File links This work is copyrighted. ... Old-time music, a traditional style of American music, has roots in Irish, Scottish and African folk music. ... The 1920s were a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... The violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a fifth apart. ... Okeh Records began as an independent record label based in the United States of America in 1918; from the late 1920s on was a subsidiary of Columbia Records. ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Nickname: The Big Apple Motto: Official website: City of New York Location [[Image:|250px|250px|Location of City of New York, New York]] Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R... Sharecropping is a system of farming in which employee farmers work a parcel of land in return for a fraction of the parcels crops. ...

In 1963, however, a folk musicologist named Tom Hoskins, inspired by the recordings, was able to locate ^[2] John Hurt near Avalon, Mississippi. In fact, in an early recording, Hurt sang of "Avalon, my home". With his guitar playing skills still intact, Hoskins encouraged Hurt to move to Washington, DC and begin performing on a wider stage. Whereas his first releases had coincided with the Great Depression, his new career could hardly have been better timed. A stellar performance at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival saw his star rise amongst the new "folk revival" audience, and before his death in 1966 he played extensively in colleges, concert halls, coffee houses and even the Johnny Carson Tonight Show, as well as recording three further albums for Vanguard Records. John Hurt's influence spans several music genres including blues, country, bluegrass, folk and contemporary rock and roll. A soft-spoken man, his nature was reflected in the work, which remained a mellow mix of country, blues and old time music to the end. 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A musicologist is someone who studies musicology. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... Dorothea Langes Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on Florence Owens Thompson, a mother of seven children, age thirty-two, in Nipomo, California, March 1936. ... The Newport Folk Festival is an annual folk-oriented music festival founded in 1959 by George Wein, founder of the already-well-established Newport Jazz Festival, and his partner, Albert Grossman. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... The term college (Latin collegium) is most often used today to denote an educational institution. ... A Concert hall is a cultural building, which serves as performance venue, chiefly for classical instrumental music. ... A Street Cafe, Jerusalem, Henry Fenn (1838- ): steel engraving in Picturesque Palestine, ca 1875 A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or caf shares some of the characteristics of a bar, and some of the characteristics of a restaurant. ... Johnny Carson For the article about the Erskine College president, see Dr. John Carson John William Johnny Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American actor, comedian and writer best known for his iconic status as the host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. ... Vanguard Records was a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. ... Country music, also called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the Southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, Celtic Music, Blues, Gospel music, and Old-time music. ...

Discography

Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 OKEH Recordings (Columbia Roots N' Blues reissue)

• 1. "Frankie" (3:21)- February 24, 1928, Memphis, TN - 400221-B, OK 8560
  
• 2. "Nobody's Dirty Business" (2:52)- February 24, 1928, Memphis - 400223-B, OK 8560
  
• 3. "Ain't No Tellin'" (2:54)- December 21, 1928, New York City, NY - 401471-A, OK 8560
  
• 4. "Louis Collins" (2:57)- December 21, 1928, NYC - 401472-A, OK 8724
  
• 5. "Avalon Blues" (3:01)- December 21, 1928, NYC - 401473-B, OK 8759
• 6. "Big Leg Blues" (2:50)- December 21, 1928, NYC - 401474-B, unissued
• 7. "Stack O' Lee" (2:55)- December 28, 1928, NYC - 401481-B, OK 8654
• 8. "Candy Man Blues" (2:44)- December 28, 1928, NYC - 401483-B, OK 8654
• 9. "Got The Blues (Can't Be Satisfied)" (2:49)- Dec 28, 1928, NYC- 401484-B, OK 8734
  
• 10."Blessed Be The Name" (2:46)- December 28, 1928, NYC - 401485-B, OK 8666
• 11."Praying On The Old Camp Ground" (2:35)- Dec 28 1928, NYC- 401486-B, OK 8666
• 12."Blue Harvest Blues" (2:51)- December 28, 1928 NYC - 401487-A, OK 8692
  
• 13. "Spike Driver Blues" ^[3] (3:13)- December 28, 1928 NYC - 401488, OK 8692
  

Last Sessions - 1966 (Vanguard) Stagger Lee, also known as Stagolee, Stack OLee, Stack-a-Lee and by several other spelling variants, was an African American murderer whose tawdry crime was immortalized in a blues folksong. ...

• 1. "Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home"
• 2. "Boys, You're Welcome"
• 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"

Mississippi John Hurt 1928 Sessions (Yazoo 1065, Yazoo Records) Side 1

• Got the blues can’t be satisfied
• Louis Collins
• Blue Harvest Blues
• Avalon Blues
• Blessed be the name
• Nobody’s dirty business
• Frankie

Side 2

• Ain’t no tellin’
• Big leg blues
• Stack O’Lee blues
• Praying on the old camp ground
• Spike Driver Blues ^[4]
• Candy Man Blues

Worried Blues (Piedmont PLP 13161, Piedmont Records) Stagger Lee, also known as Stagolee, Stack OLee, Stack-a-Lee and by several other spelling variants, was an African American murderer whose tawdry crime was immortalized in a blues folksong. ...

Side 1

• Lazy Blues
• Farther along
• Sliding delta
• Nobody cares for me
• Cow hooking blues

Side 2

• Talkin’ Casey Jones
• Weeping and wailing
• Worried blues
• Oh Mary don’t you weep
• I been cryin’ since you been gone

Mississippi John Hurt Today (VSD-79220, Vanguard Records)

Side 1

• Payday
• I’m satisfied
• Candy man
• Make me a pallet on the floor
• Talkin’ Casey Jones
• Corrinna, Corrinna

Side 2

• Coffee blues
• Louis Collins
• Hot time in the old town tonight
• If you don’t want me. Baby
• Spike driver blues ^[5]
• Beulah land

Mississippi John Hurt Last Sessions (VSD-79327, Vanguard Records)

Side 1

• Poor boy long ways from home
• Boys, you’re welcome
• Joe Turner blues
• First shot missed him
• Farther along
• Spider, spider
• Waiting for you
• Shortnin’ bread

Side 2

• Trouble, I’ve had it all my days
• Let the mermaids flirt with me
• Good mornin’, Carrie
• Nobody cares for me
• All night long
• Hey, Honey, right away
• You’ve got to die
• Goodnight, Irene

The Best of Mississippi John Hurt (VSD-19/20, Vanguard Records) Recorded live at Oberlin College April 15, 1965

Side 1

• Here I am, Oh Lord, send me
• I shall not be moved
• Nearer my God to thee
• Baby what’s wrong with you
• It ain’t nobody’s business

Side 2

• Salty dog blues
• Coffee blues
• Avalon, my home town
• Make me a pallet on the floor
• Since I’ve laid this burden down

Side 1

• Sliding delta
• Monday morning blues
• Richland women blues
• Candy man
• Stagolee

Side 2 Stagger Lee, also known as Stagolee, Stack OLee, Stack-a-Lee and by several other spelling variants, was an African American murderer whose tawdry crime was immortalized in a blues folksong. ...

• My creole belle
• CC rider
• Spanish Fandango
• Talking casey
• Chicken
• You are my sunshine

The Candy Man (QS 5042, Quicksilver Records)

Side 1

• Richland women blues
• Trouble, I’ve had it all my days
• Chicken
• Coffee blues
• Monday morning blues

Side 2

• Frankie and Albert
• Talking Casey
• Here I am, Oh Lord, send me
• Hard time in the old town tonight
• Spike driver blues ^[6]

Volume One of a Legacy (CLPS 1068, Piedmont Records)

Side 1

• Trouble, I’ve had it all my days
• Pera Lee
• See See rider
• Louis Collins
• Coffee blues
• Nobody’s dirty business
• Do Lord remember me
• Monday morning blues

Side 2

• Let the mermaids flirt with me
• Payday
• Stack-o-lee blues
• Casey Jones
• Frankie and Albert

Folk Songs and Blues (PLP 13757, Piedmont Records) Stagger Lee, also known as Stagolee, Stack OLee, Stack-a-Lee and by several other spelling variants, was an African American murderer whose tawdry crime was immortalized in a blues folksong. ...

Side 1

• Avalon blues
• Richland woman blues
• Spike driver blues ^[7]
• Salty dog
• Cow hooking blues
• Spanish Fandang

Side 2

• Casey Jones
• Louis Collins
• Candy Man Blues
• My Creole belle
• Liza Jane – God’s unchanging hand
• Joe Turner blues

Notes

^  There is confusion about his date of birth, but the grave mentions this date.

^  Spike Driver's Blues is about the Afro-American folk hero John Henry (folklore). African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ... John Henry was a steel driving man. ...

^  Tom Hoskins was able to find Mississippi John Hurt after listening to the lyrics of Avalon and realising it was written about a place called Avalon. Unable to find Avalon on a recent map, Hoskins searched older and older maps and eventually found it on an atlas from 1878 between Greenwood and Grenada.

External links

• Mississippi John Hurt Museum
• Vanguard Record's short biography of Mississippi John Hurt
• Review of Live/The Best of Mississippi John Hurt - The Music Box, Vol. 9, #8