Mississippi John Hurt

Lately I have been listening to a lot of old Jazz and Blues recordings, one of my favorites is Mississippi John Hurt. Raised in Avalon Mississippi, he learned to play guitar at age 9. He spent much of his youth playing old time music and earning a living as a farm hand in the 1920s. In 1963 a folk musicologist named Tom Hoskins encouraged him to move to Washington DC,and began to perform on a wider stage. Check out some of these recordings from the late 1920s.