Mississippi John Hurt played fingerpicking guitar blues that were as gentle as a country lullaby. A creased and tiny man with wide and beatific eyes, he was ushered onto the national stage during ...

Album Review Stefan Grossman: Shining Shadows. by David Rickert October 7, 2010. It makes sense that Stefan Grossman and Eric Clapton hung out together in the sixties, because they both have similar ...

A fire in Avalon, Miss., destroyed the museum dedicated to singer and guitarist John Hurt, and erases one of the last sites marking the community's history as a formerly all-Black town.

Mississippi John Hurt wasn’t your typical bluesman pounding out misery on a battered guitar—no, this guy was a gentle soul with a fingerpicking style so smooth it could make a stone weep. Born in 1893 ...

Pioneer blues and folk guitarist Mississippi John Hurt spent many nights entertaining at the Valley Store in Carroll County. The sheriff's office is investigating a break-in at the historic store ...

Hurt, Mississippi John Location Currently not on view ID Number 2018.0191.01.01 accession number 2018.0191 catalog number 2018.0191.01.01 Object Name case Physical Description plastic (overall ...

Mississippi John Hurt is dead at seventy-tour. Performers in the rock/blues field should note that “I’m Satisfied” is the only song of John’s on which he held the copyright.

For fans of American roots music, the Mississippi John Hurt Museum in Avalon, Mississippi, may have been housed inside a 200-year-old shack with a tin roof—it was the childhood home of the late ...

Discover showtimes, read reviews, watch trailers, find streaming options, and see where to watch A Man Called Hurt: The Life and Music of Mississippi John Hurt. Explore cast details and learn more ...

NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: The Mississippi John Hurt Museum was a sharecropper shack with a tin roof, 200 years old. It was filled with memorabilia, all of it now gone.

Pioneer blues and folk guitarist Mississippi John Hurt spent many nights entertaining at the Valley Store in Carroll County. The sheriff's office is investigating a break-in at the historic store ...