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Mississippi John Hurt

Avalon Blues

Songwriters: Hurt, John

"Avalon Blues", or how John Hurt came to be rediscovered
21 days ago

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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