American Epic: The Best of Mississippi John Hurt Mississippi John Hurt The Fells were churning out

The Fells were churning out high quality

to the Blue Room Stage on March 16

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He went on to release a couple more singles with Columbia and by the ‘60s

Blind Lemon Jefferson

American Epic: The Best of Mississippi John Hurt Mississippi John Hurt The Fells were churning outBlues fingerpicking guitarist, singer, and sharecropper, Mississippi John Hurt was born in the heart of Mississippi Hill Country, along the veiny tributaries of the great American river. His moving renditions of "Frankie" and "Spike Driver Blues" were included in Harry Smith's American Anthology of Folk Music in 1952 and were vitally influential on the Greenwich Village folk music revival of the 1960s, as well as John Fahey's development of the