Mississippi John Hurt

Mississippi John Smith Hurt (July 3, 1893, Teoc, Carroll County, Mississippi - November 2, 1966, Grenada, Mississippi) was an influential blues singer and guitarist.

Notes

1. Spike Driver's Blues is about the Afro-American folk hero John Henry (folklore).

Related Topics:
Afro-American - John Henry (folklore)

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2. Tom Hoskins was able to find Mississippi John Hurt after listening to the lyrics of Avalon and realising it was written about a place called Avalon. Unable to find Avalon on a recent map, Hoskins searched older and older maps and eventually found it on an atlas from 1878 between Greenwood and Grenada.

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