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Bookmark or Share- Playing Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt | SmithsonianOne of the more unusual of the Delta bluesmen was a short, soft-spoken man often in a battered fedora named Mississippi John Hurt. Born in the late 1800s, he lived nearly all of his life in a...
- 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Mississippi John HurtIts the original home of Hurt, and now houses the Mississippi John Hurt Museum. The log cabin, in which he was raised, is long gone, but this home in which he lived for a great part of his life, is filled with artifacts and mementos of “Daddy John,” as he was known to the local citizenry.
- Mississippi John Hurt - WikipediaJohn Smith Hurt (March 8, 1893 [1][nb 1] – November 2, 1966), known as Mississippi John Hurt, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. [3] John Hurt was born in Teoc, [4] Carroll County, Mississippi and raised in Avalon, Mississippi.
- MJH BIO - The Mississippi John Hurt Foundation TributeBorn John Smith Hurt, in Teoc, Mississippi in 1893, John gravitated towards the guitar at an early age. He recounted his first encounter with the guitar on Pete Seeger’s “Rainbow Quest” folk music television program.
- "Mississippi" John HurtMississippi John Hurt was born on 8 March 1892 in Teoc, just north of Greenwood in the Mississippi Delta. Hurt grew up one of three children in a farming family in nearby Avalon. He began his musical career by singing in church choirs as a young child.
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