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| 2 Spike Driver Blues | |
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| 3 A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight | |
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| 4 Ain't No Tellin' |  |
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| 5 Avalon Blues | |
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Miississippi John Hurt unquestionably did not write this - it was rearranged by A.P. Carter with new lyrics from an original hymn by Ada Habershon, published in 1907. This track is from his Library of Congress recordings in 1963. The song has been recorded many hundreds of times in countless styles, mainly country, gospel and blues, and even in a reggae vein by the Dynamic Ken Parker (which I h...
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Mississippi John Hurt (c. 1892-1966) was one of a fairly small number of musicians born in the nineteenth century still active in the 1960s. This, as far as I can discern, is one of his later recordings when he was aged close to sixty. The song itself is perhaps even older - if the contest between man of immense strength and steam drill did take place, it was during the era of railroad expansio...
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According to the latest census, Carroll County, Mississippi is home to about ten thousand residents, less than half of the number that inhabited the county a century ago. By the standards of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth centuries, it was a remote place off of the beaten path. J. S. McCain had a sizable plantation spread there, near the town of Teoc. It was from there that McCain'...
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