Hurt, John Smith Mississippi John Hurt, a better-known stage name, was an American country blues singer and guitarist who lived from March 8, 1893, until November 2, 1966.
Hurt, who was up in Avalon, Mississippi, learned how to play the guitar when he was about nine years old.
He was a sharecropper who started singing and playing music at dances and gatherings while being accompanied by melodic fingerpicking.
Despite the monetary failure of his initial records for Okeh Records in 1928, he persisted in farming.
Hurt was located in 1963 by Dick Spottswood and Tom Hoskins, a blues fan, who convinced him to settle in Washington, D.C.
In 1964, the Library of Congress made a recording of him. This aided the American folk music renaissance, which helped many other bluesmen from Hurt’s time period become more widely known.
What is Mississippi John Hurt most famous for?
He was known as a world-famous acoustic guitar prodigy, a significant participant in the folk-blues revival of the 1960s, and spent the majority of his life working on farms near Avalon in Carroll County and giving performances at social events.
