davidbeinct
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I pulled these posts from another thread because I thought the discussion about who was playing deserved something more than some heated comments in the Random Videos thread.
I could argue either way that the video below is incorrectly attributed to Mississippi John Hurt.
The YouTube comments from 11 years ago seem to support the idea that Keith Richards recorded the audio in the video in the 1990's but recordings that are attributed to Richards are not identical so there is opportunity for doubt.
I'm going to focus on the guitar since numerous cover bands have proven that two guitarists can play the exact thing and most people cannot tell them apart.
I'm thinking that if MJH recorded this then there should be some record of it. But the track list at https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Studio-Recordings-Mississippi-John/dp/B00004Z3VB which is alleged the complete studio recordings of MJH doesn't list it by the title "Cocaine Blues". So is the list incomplete or was it never released? Perhaps it is from one of those efforts to capture traditional music once recording technology became available?
So if the audio is MJH then when and where was it recorded? If Richards is playing then when did hear MJH play, live or in a recording?
So what evidence do we have, either way, that is based upon something other than people listing to multiple recordings and saying they are the same or different?
I think both the YouTube video I embedded and the ones attributed to Mississippi John Hurt are from the “Voodoo Brew” bootleg CD of various outtakes from the “Voodoo Lounge” sessions. There are two versions that appear back to back on disc two of that set.
Discogs Link
I suspect the first is the one that has been misattributed to MJH. I can’t find disc two uploaded to YouTube, someone uploaded disc one so I was hopeful.
I’m going to try to find a FLAC or a hard copy to buy and if I do I’ll post my findings here. People will either believe me or not for their own reasons.