These 14 songs were recorded in 1963 and 1964; material from these sessions appeared briefly on Canada's Rebel label, as well as Piedmont. The mood is late-night informal, although there's little, if anything, in the Hurt catalog that could not be called informal. Hurt's originals are dotted with standards like "C.C. Rider," "Do Lord Remember Me," "Casey Jones," and a seven-minute "Stack-O-Lee." It's not as forceful, perhaps, as his best-known recordings, and some of the songs are duplicated on other releases, but the sound quality (despite the destruction of the master tape) is OK, and Hurt fans will almost certainly find it to their liking.
Smithsonian Folkways, a label known for preserving obscure recordings of many of the heroes of traditional music, has released a beautiful (inside and out) box-set of music recorded by Friends of Old Time Music from 1961 to 1965 (with Doc Watson's first public concert and performances by Mother Maybelle Carter, The Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, Mississippi John Hurt and...
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| 1 Trouble I Had All My Days |
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| 2 Pera-Lee |
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| 3 C.C. Rider |
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| 4 Louis Collins |
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| 5 Coffee Blues |
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| 6 Nobody's Dirty Business |
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| 7 Do Lord, Remember Me |
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| 8 Monday Morning Blues |
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| 9 Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me |
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| 10 Payday |
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| 11 Stack O' Lee Blues |
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| 12 Casey Jones |
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| 13 Frankie and Albert |
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| 14 Stocktime (Buck Dance) |
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