The Legacy of Alan Lomax The Atlantic Clarence Ashley didn't die until 1967, just a few months after the guitarist and singer Mississippi John Hurt, who for years was known almost exclusively through the two astonishing performances Smith chose for his Anthology: "Frankie" and "Spike ...
Live Review: Paul Thorn and Ruthie Foster at the Napa Valley Opera House North Bay Bohemian The band changed instruments, with Richardson on violin, Banks on a wood block and spoons and Miller on the mandolin, to brilliantly cover Mississippi John Hurt's “Richmond Women's Blues.” They went a cappella to perform “The Titanic,” on which Foster ...
An Interview with New York City Singer/Songwriter, Sam Yield Examiner.com Listening to Mississippi John Hurt is what made me want to play guitar in the first place. John Fahey and Nick Drake were also big influences as guitarists. I don't think I ever would have started singing if it weren't for people like Joanna Newsom and ...
New music by Howler, Guided by Voices, Little Willies and more launch a good year Vancouver Sun Sure enough, the excellent third album by the Ottawa country blues/folk man, who sometimes sounds uncannily like Mississippi John Hurt, pillories the guilty. On the title track, it's the religiously righteous. The wealthy one per centres of last year's ...
Wells to the Wall Cincinnati CityBeat “Mississippi John Hurt is probably my favorite old Blues guy, and Skip James, some of the really nasty sounding stuff. As time has gone on, I've gotten eclectic. Someone asked me what I've been listening to and I said, 'Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Manson ...
Rainy Day Blues Moves with Walker T Ryan KVAL He plays rhythm driven blues guitar, Texas, Delta, originals, straight and slide -- from Mississippi guitar trance music to Mississippi John Hurt Saturday night fish-fry finger picking. Here at home, I'm not looking for work any more.
Hallelujah by and by Patheos (blog) Most of the others — especially Johnny Cash and the Blind Boys and Mississippi John Hurt and Hank — sing it in a way that says “I can endure these trials now because I have faith in some ultimate peace,” but Jars of Clay sing it in a way that says “I ...
Woods Brothers: New Album, New EP, New Cover jambands.com ... Volume 1: Sky High on Zac Brown Band's Southern Ground Artists label. The 7-track CD was recorded live during their Fall tour and features songs from Smoke Ring Halo, their first record Ways Not To Lose and a cover of Mississippi John Hurt's “Pay Day”. The Wood Brothers: Tour, New EPJamBase
G. Love talks blues, New Orleans and his new album, 'Fixin to Die.' NOLA.com And of course, that record sent me on the journey – all of his records and then all the records by the people he was interpreting, Lightning Hopkins and Fred McDowell and Mississippi John Hurt. I almost gave myself an ulcer trying to crunch my stomach ...
Folk Festivities Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online In Room 118 or the Plunk, Boom & Sing Room, Grave will perform a collection of originals and interpretations of songs from artists such as Mississippi John Hurt and Robert Johnson. He will play a tune called “Shake 'Em On Down,” a take on a classic ...
