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  1. Mississippi John Hurt's profile including the latest music, albums, songs, music videos and more updates.

  2. I'M MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT on Myspace. Connect, discover, and share the world’s largest digital music library with over 53 million tracks and videos.

  3. No blues singer ever presented a more gentle, genial image than Mississippi John Hurt. A guitarist with an extraordinarily lyrical and refined fingerpicking style, he also sang with a warmth unique in the field of blues, and the gospel influence in his music gave it a depth and reflective quality unusual in the field.

  4. vocals. Years active. 1901–1966. Labels. Okeh. 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.

  5. Mississippi John Hurt was born on 8 March 1892 in Teoc, just north of Greenwood in the Mississippi Delta. Hurt grew up one of three children in a farming family in nearby Avalon. He began his musical career by singing in church choirs as a young child. He picked up three-finger style guitar around age […]

  6. In this article, we will delve into the life and legacy of Mississippi John Hurt, exploring his early years, his introduction to music, the challenges he faced, his musical style, and the musicians he influenced. We will also take a look at his later years and the impact he had on the music industry.

  7. Apr 23, 2024 · Mississippi John Hurt (born July 3, 1893, Teoc, Mississippi, U.S.—died November 2, 1966, Grenada, Mississippi) was an American country- blues singer and guitarist who first recorded in the late 1920s but whose greatest fame and influence came when he was rediscovered in the early 1960s at the height of the American folk music revival.

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