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Feb 2, 1999 · Songs of Mississippi John Hurt by Bill Morrissey released in 1999. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Feb 2, 1999 · Find release reviews and credits for Songs of Mississippi John Hurt - Bill Morrissey on AllMusic - 1999
Bill Morrisey - Songs of Mississippi John Hurt. Bill Morrissey - Songs of Mississippi John Hurt. 11671-1216-2. Released: 1999. by Marc Mickelson. marc@soundstage.com. Musical Performance. Recording Quality. Overall Enjoyment.
Tunneling backward and forward through his career, Bill Morrissey has reimagined his most formative influence, reinvestigating just what got him here in the first place. He has never recorded a John Hurt song before, though the music of the Avalon, Mississippi, master runs throughout the New Englander’s vignettes (Morrissey says he got “all of his right hand” from Hurt).
Vanguard. John Smith Hurt (March 8, 1893 [ 1 ][ nb 1 ] – November 2, 1966), known as Mississippi John Hurt, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. [ 3 ] Hurt was raised in Avalon, Mississippi and taught himself to play the guitar around the age of nine. He worked as a sharecropper and began playing at dances and ...
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Bill's new album features his versions of 15 songs by Mississippi John Hurt. It was recorded in New Orleans in August of 1998. Musicians include Johnny Vidacovich on drums and James Singleton on acoustic bass. Peter Keane helps with the arranging and adds some guitar and backing vocals, and Cormac McCarthy plays harmonica on several numbers.