(Actually Pete Peterson, visiting Ms. Harp) I was in the audience at the Blues workshop at newport, July 1963 when they announced from the stage "from Avalon, MS, Mississippi John Hurt" and I was one of the few people who knew who he was (thanks again to Harry Smith and the Anthology, and to Tom Paley who had recorded Stagolee on New Lost City Ramblers volume 4) a few mnutes later EVERYBODY did. I saw him a few months later at the Second Fret in Phila and got to hang around him a little bit afterwards. Sat as close as possible to watch the thumb move so rock-steady back and forth. It was wonderful. There's a lot of John Hurt in my own guitar playing. ((I wish!))