The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #21368 Message #229107
Posted By: GUEST,Slider
16-May-00 - 09:20 PM
Thread Name: Mississippi John Hurt
Subject: RE: Mississippi John Hurt
MLH's "Slidin' Delta" was the first tune I figured out on my own after getting the Vanguard twofer album nearly 25 years ago. I think it was called "The Best Of MJH" or somesuch. Great album recorded in April of '65 at a college (Oberlin?)...I'm just too lazy to get up from the chair and go to where the records are and look. One of the things that has facinated me is how much better his playing and singing was in his later years compared to his early Okey recordings(IMHO). Just listening to his different ways of playing "Candyman" is a study unto itself. Without a doubt, MJH was the main reason I stuck with the guitar. His music was so much more accessible than say, Son House,Skip James and others.(although now I can snap strings off the fingerboard and growl and moan to my hearts' content...it just took two and a half decades!!!) Of all those great "redicovered" bluesmen of the '60's , He is the one I wish I could have seen. I just love him, cantcha tell?