Mississippi John Hurt - The Complete Studio Recordings Mississippi John Hurt
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Artist: Mississippi John HurtEdition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-10-31
Music Label: Vanguard Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Payday
- I'm Satisfied
- Candy Man
- Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
- Talking Casey
- Corrina, Corrina
- Coffee Blues
- Louis Collins
- Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
- If You Don't Want Me Baby
- Spike Driver Blues
- Beulah Land
- Since I've Laid My Burden Down
- Moanin' the Blues
- Stocktime (Buck Dance)
- Lazy Blues
- Richland Woman Blues
- Wise and Foolish Virgins (Tender Virgins)
- Hop Joint
- Monday Morning Blues
- Got the Blues (Can't Be Satisfied)
- Keep on Knocking
- The Chicken
- Stagolee
- Nearer My God to Thee
- Poor Boy, Long Ways from Home
- Boys, You're Welcome
- Joe Turner Blues
- First Shot Missed Him
- Farther Along
- Funky Butt
- Spider, Spider
- Waiting for You
- Shortnin' Bread
- Trouble I Had All My Days
- Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me
- Good Morning, Carrie
- Nobody Cares for Me
- All Night Long
- Hey, Honey, Right Away
- You've Got to Die
- Goodnight Irene
Music reviews of The Complete Studio Recordings Mississippi John Hurt
Music Review: A review and a question
Rating: 5 Stars
First my review:
The recorded legacy of MJH falls into roughly five categories.
(1) his early 1928 recordings on the OKEH label which comprise around 20 tracks. Although they are quite listenable and of historical interest and importance they are not the most enjoyable of his recordings. (2) recordings from 1963 that are available on the Rounder label. The sound quality of these recordings is somewhat disappointing. For that reason alone I don't listen to them much except for the fact that they were heavily relied upon by people who transcribed his songs for instructional materials. (3) The Library of Congress recordings (also from 1963). These are perhaps the best. The sound quality is excellent and there is an informality to the sessions which makes it like having MJH as a house guest for the weekend determined to play you every song he knows. (4) The (these) Vanguard Recordings, which I think were recorded between 1967 and 1969. These rival and sometimes surpass the Library of Congress Recordings as far as the material goes. There is also a palpable sadness as you can detect a man near the end of his life aware of the fact that he may very well be making his final recordings. The audio engineers did a terrible job at Vanguard for a good deal of these recordings. How can you screw up recording just one guy with a guitar? If you try hard enough you can set the levels WAY off. That is how. (5) there is also a Live MJH CD from Vanguard. It's sound quality is pretty good and it is endearing to hear MJH talk to an audience, but I find it less compelling material wise than the studio recordings.
Listening to MJH makes you want to piick up the guitar and learn to play like him. The good thing about this is that if you really want to you probably can. Many of his songs have been transcribed and broken down in intructional books and DVDs. After going through a "beginning fingerpicking" DVD by Stefan Grossman you are probably ready to take on MJH.
Go for it!
And now for my question:
It's not obvious to me from the Vanguard website whether the boxed set is actually a newer digital remaster than the original digital re-masters from the mid 80s. As far as digital remasters go those ones were a bit of a disaster. When you put the disc into your player you would have to crank the volume on your stereo. As you might expect, the careless lack of attention to levels setting in the remastering process resulted in a mushy sounding guitar. I seem to remember that was also a problem with the vinyl Vanguard LPs, particularly the first one. Hopefully these CDs really are *new* remasters because most CDs re-mastered these days are remastered quite well.
My music management software for encoding MP3s has the capability of looking up CDs in an online database. Whenever I present it with copies of the old mid 1980s vanguard CDs it recognizes them as possibly being from the boxed set, so I hesitate to spring for the "new remasters" without really knowing if they are indeed recently remastered. Perhaps someone else could clear this up.
Description of The Complete Studio Recordings Mississippi John Hurt
Gentle, graceful, subtle, sweet--these aren't descriptions generally applied to the blues, but they offer a sense of Mississippi John Hurt's uniqueness and enduring legacy. Rediscovered during the 1960s folk boom after last recording in the late 1920s, Hurt cut the three albums compiled here when he was in his early 70s. His conversational phrasing sounds as natural as breathing, while his ragtime-tinged fingerpicking on acoustic guitar reveals more complexity the closer you listen. Beyond blues classics like "Candy Man" (the sly sensualist wasn't referring to lollipops), Hurt's range encompasses everything from folkish narratives ("Talking Casey," "Spike Driver Blues") to Southern spirituals ("Nearer My God to Thee," "Farther Along"). Though Hurt died in 1966, shortly after the last of these sessions, the music still sounds so fresh, you can almost hear the twinkle in his eye. --Don McLeeseBlues CDs
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