Hurt’s work both evoked and diverged from his region’s musical traditions. “Classic” Delta blues music was “melodically complex, haunting and often discordant,” featuring lyrics that ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - There are still questions and heartbreak about the cause of a fire that destroyed a museum dedicated to the life of a Mississippi blues legend. Mississippi John Hurt, as he ...

Singer, songwriter and musician Lonnie Johnson (1899–1970 ... One of the most influential figures of the 1960s folk revival, Mississippi John Hurt (1893–1966) offered his own brand of the blues, ...

Lead Belly is perhaps the best known name of the African Americans that helped define the genre, but you'll also find portraits of Mississippi John Hurt, Odetta, and Joshua Daniel White, and music by ...