Mississippi John Hurt - The Library of Congress Recordings, Vol. 1 (2025)

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Date: Nov. 12, 2025

Mississippi John Hurt - The Library of Congress Recordings, Vol. 1 (2025)
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Country Blues | Label: DD&P

Mississippi John Hurt was easily the most accessible of all the 1920s bluesmen rediscovered still alive and in playing condition in the early 1960s. His easy, gentle singing voice and deft guitar picking abilities were still intact and undiminished, and where some of his hard-living contemporaries suffered from alcoholism, Alzheimer's, or just plain crankiness when they emerged into the bright lights of the folk- and- blues- revivals, Hurt projected a calm, unaffected professionalism. The recordings on this two-disc set were made for the Library of Congress Archive of American Folk Song during two sessions on July 15 and 23, 1963. Hurt recorded 36 songs over those two days, all of which are included here (for some reason, Hurt's version of "Nobody's Business" isn't listed on the CD jacket, but appears as an untitled track at the close of disc one). His signature tunes "Avalon Blues" and "Candy Man" are here, as are a varied assortment of blues, pre-blues songster material, and folk spirituals. The sound is wonderful and intimate, and Hurt emerges as a living, breathing presence. His occasional minor miscues only add to the front porch feel of his performance, and while his Vanguard studio sessions are also solid, they appear almost hermetic compared to the tracks found here. Versions of these Library of Congress recordings have appeared in different configurations over the years, but having them all in one package makes this set the one to get.
Tracklist:
01 Avalon Blues
02 Richlands Women Blues
03 Frankie and Albert
04 Trouble I've Had All My Day
05 Pera-Lee
06 Candy Man
07 Stockwell
08 Got the Blues Can't Be Satisfied
09 Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me
10 Talking Casey Jones
11 Pay Day
12 Louis Collins
13 Stackolee
14 Coffee Blues
15 Slidin' Delta
16 Corinna, Corinna
17 Hey Baby Right Away
18 (Untitled) Nobody's Dirty Business
19 Pallet on the Floor
20 Waiting for a Train
21 Funky Butt
22 Spanish Flangdang
23 Monday Morning Blues
24 Shortnin' Bread
25 Oh Mary Don't You Weep
26 Farther Along
27 Do Lord Remember Me
28 Over in the Glory Land
29 Glory Glory Hallelujah
30 What a Friend We Have in Jesus
31 Where Shall I Be
32 Weeping and Waiting
33 Joe Turner
34 If You Don't Want Me (Version #2)
35 Rubber Dolly
36 Keep Me Knockin' (You Can't Come In)

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