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Mississippi John Hurt

With his beautifully soft delivery, elegant finger-picking technique and old-world, soulful storytelling, Mississippi John Hurt was an obscure country-blues player from the 1920s and 30s until he was re-discovered and became a hero to the young folk stars of the 1960s. Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, he started playing the guitar of a family friend when he was nine and later teamed up with local fiddle player Willie Narmour to perform at barn dances and parties. He worked manual jobs as a farm hand and as a laborer for a railroad company, and only had two recording sessions for...