Mississippi John Hurt Documentary Trailer

[davidbeinct]

Guild F30 sighting at 1:51.

 

[geoguy]

I hope that film comes out soon . . .

 

[davidbeinct]

I hope that film comes out soon . . .

Me too I’ve been hearing about it for awhile now.

 

[GGJaguar]

Looking forward to that one!

 

[Westerly Wood]

I really like his guitar playing.

 

[richardp69]

Really enjoy this player. Bill Morrissey did an entire CD of Mississippi John Hurt tunes. It's relaly good.

 

[Westerly Wood]

Here is he recording for Library of Congress. He recorded an album in 1928, but it was such a flop, he went back to farming. They didn't find him again till 1963. That is crazy!

 

[Westerly Wood]

Wow......check this out....

Hurt used a fast, syncopated fingerpicking style of guitar playing that he taught himself. He was influenced by few other musicians, among whom was an elderly, unrecorded blues singer from the area where he lived, Rufus Hanks, who played twelve-string guitar and harmonica. According to the music critic Robert Christgau, "the school of John Fahey proceeded from his finger-picking...

too bad we never heard Rufus Hanks music. he sounds incredible and maybe birthed an entire music movement and never knew.

 

[Brick]

His stuff is so much fun to try and play......just wish I could do it justice. This looks amazing.

 

[Stagefright]

Doc Watson was a fan of Mississippi John Hurt

 

[GGJaguar]

This is my favorite MJH song.

 

[DrumBob]

I will definitely have to see this when it's released.