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  1. Arts & Culture | November/December 2022. A Pilgrimage to Honor a Blues Legend. With a mysterious memento from long ago in hand, a devoted fan of the blues artist Mississippi John Hurt returns...

  2. Feb 22, 2024 · 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.

  3. May 30, 2017 · Official website: http://to.pbs.org/2pzOUDG | #AmericanEpic Mississippi John Hurt Subscribe to the PBS channel for more clips: / pbs Enjoy full episodes of your favorite PBS programs at...

  4. Mar 1, 2024 · The Current. Every Friday around 11 a.m. on Radio Heartland, we pull a special track from the archives or from deep in the shelves to spotlight a particular artist or song. This week, we remember influential guitar player and country blues singer and songwriter Mississippi John Hurt.

  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. Jimmy Rogers. New recommendations. John Smith Hurt, known as Mississippi John Hurt, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Hurt was raised in Avalon, Mississippi and taught himself to play the guitar around the age of nine.

  7. Jun 6, 2011 · Winner, Best History, 2012 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound ResearchWhen Mississippi John Hurt (1892-1966) was "rediscovered" by...

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