Mississippi John Hurt American Epic: The Best Of Mississippi John Hurt (180 Gram Vinyl, Remastered)

DESCRIPTION Limited 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. Tracks 1 Frankie 2 Ain't No Tellin' 3 Spike Driver Blues 4 Avalon Blues 5 Louis Collins 6 Candy Man Blues 7 Stack O' Lee Blues 8 Praying on the Old Camp Ground 9 Blue Harvest Blues 10 Got the Blues Can't Be Satisfied 11 Big Leg Blues 12 Nobody's Dirty Business 13 Blessed Be the Name

• Format: Vinyl
• Released: 06/16/2017
• RSD Date: DDD
• Genre: Pop