Mississippi John Hurt American Epic Best of...

DESCRIPTIONLimited 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in tip-on jacket with soft touch finish. Blues fingerpicking guitarist, singer and sharecropper Mississippi John Hurt was born in the heart of Mississippi Hill Country, along the veiny tributaries of the great American river. His moving renditions of "Frankie" and "Spike Driver Blues" were included in Harry Smith's American Anthology of Folk Music in 1952 and were vitally influential on the Greenwich Village folk music revival of the 1960s as well as John Fahey's development of the American Primitive Guitar genre.Tracks1 Frankie2 Ain't No Tellin'3 Spike Driver Blues4 Avalon Blues5 Louis Collins6 Candy Man Blues7 Stack O' Lee Blues8 Praying on the Old Camp Ground9 Blue Harvest Blues10 Got the Blues Can't Be Satisfied11 Big Leg Blues12 Nobody's Dirty Business13 Blessed Be the Name Rock & Pop: Pop Format: Vinyl Genre: Blues RSD Release Date: DDD Released: 6/16/2017