Guest/Hootenanny:

Thanks for the suggestion. It encouraged me to go out in the garage and find the Mississippi John Hurt album. I remembered incorrectly... it was released on the Piedmont label (now defunct.)The title of the album is Mississippi John Hurt: Folk Songs and Blues.
I checked the Arhoolie website, just out of curiosity, and of course, it wasn't there. Then, I went back and browsed through all the listings on amazon.com and became curious about an album on Rounder titled Avalon Blues. My curiosity was aroused because it was a reissue of a recording done in 1963... the same year as the Piedmont recording. There was no indication that it was a reissue of the album I've been looking for, but the song titles were in the identical order, and when I listened to a snippet of Candy Man, there it was... one of my favorite lines ion the song.. "Big fish, little fish, swimming in the ater. Come back here man, and give me my quarter. Yep... it's my beloved album with a different title reissued on a different label. And I just ordered a copy.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!.

Anybody know where I can get Don Howard's Oh Happy Day on CD?

(Oh yeah, another great find in recent years was a CD (no longer in print) of a great album of Scrapper Blackweel and LeRoy Carr.

Jerry