Winner, Best History, 2012 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research When Mississippi John Hurt (1892-1966) was "rediscovered" by Blues revivalists in 1963, his musicianship and recordings transformed popular notions of prewar country blues.
His intricate and live.
At seventy-one he moved to Washington, D.
C., from Avalon, Mississippi, and became a live-wire connection to a powerful, authentic past.
Winner, Best History, 2012 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research When Mississippi John Hurt (1892-1966) was "rediscovered" by Blues revivalists in 1963, his musicianship and recordings transformed popular notions of prewar country blues