rediscovering mississippi john hurt
Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 04:48PM I rolled into SonicBoom the other day, in hopes of killing some time before I moved onto my next errand of the day. I like to check out their used section because all of the cool kids with the latest in apple technology have mp3 versions of the songs they adore and leave the CDs for the rest of us.
But I was killing time, on a musician's budget which doesn't typically allow for indulgences like CDs. Cruising through the alphabet, though, I got to "M" and looked up at one of the display items. The cover was just a photograph of sweet smiling eyes and when I looked at the title, I grabbed it immediately. "Mississippi John Hurt: The complete studio recordings"--I looked around me in disbelief that it was still just sitting there. Surely the next person to have seen it would have snagged it before me.
At a $9.99 price tag, I jumped for joy, literally.
One of my great friends introduced me to John Hurt years ago, and I got into a "phase" with him. It's the kind of music that you can have in the background as a sountrack to life or as a therapeutic, undivided source of attention that soothes the nerves.
If you haven't checked out MJH, do it. You'll be glad you did.
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