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Nov 2, 2016 · We hope you enjoy these as much as we enjoy bringing them to light. 1. Uncertainty concerning his date of birth. He was born, John Smith Hurt, however, his actual date of birth is a bit of a mystery. The most likely is March 8th, 1893. This is the date written in the Hurt family Bible, and accepted by his biographer and several other ...
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 parties, singing to ...
At 18 years old, John Hurt began courting Gertrude Hoskins. In 1916 John had married Gertrude, a short lived marriage that produced T.C, the father of Mary Frances Hurt, the current administrator of the Mississippi John Hurt Foundation and a daughter Ida Mae. Soon thereafter, John and Gertrude split, and John took up with his second wife ...
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Feb 28, 2024 · He sings of love, home, gunfights, John Henry, and coffee.” Following his death, several compilation and tribute albums have been released to continue his legacy, including Bill Morrissey's '99 release, Songs of Mississippi John Hurt, which was nominated for a Grammy.
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Aug 31, 2011 · This is the second of three reviews in a week-long series on new biographical books of delta blues men, written by Mike Rugel, who hosts the Uncensored History of the Blues for the Delta Blues Museum. In Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues, British researcher Philip Ratcliffe deals with the lack of direct sources about John ...
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Mary Frances Hurt, one of 14 children of John Hurt’s son T.C., was a reading teacher in a town outside Chicago. Her grandfather, “Daddy John,” died when she was 10. She revered him and the ...
