American Epic: The Best of Mississippi John Hurt Mississippi John Hurt to the Blue Room Stage

to the Blue Room Stage on March 16

Blind Lemon Jefferson

the duo has earned a reputation as one of the hardest working bands in the modern rock n’ roll underground

The event came to life when these local acousticians and purveyors of deliberate ambience took the stage

He went on to release a couple more singles with Columbia and by the ‘60s

American Epic: The Best of Mississippi John Hurt Mississippi John Hurt to the Blue Room StageBlues fingerpicking guitarist, singer, and sharecropper, Mississippi John Hurt was born in the heart of Mississippi Hill Country, along the veiny tributaries of the great American river. His moving renditions of "Frankie" and "Spike Driver Blues" were included in Harry Smith's American Anthology of Folk Music in 1952 and were vitally influential on the Greenwich Village folk music revival of the 1960s, as well as John Fahey's development of the