Today is the birthday of Mississippi John Hurt (1893-1966). For someone who’s so well known (to blues buffs anyway) his professional bio is incredibly short. A Mississippi sharecropper all his life, he taught himself an original style of finger picking and lucked into a single recording session in 1928. The records didn’t sell well so […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:46AM on July 3, 2013