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The Complete Studio Recordings [Mississippi John Hurt] [CD Boxset] [3 discs]

Mississippi John Hurt
3 discs

0. DISC 1:
1. Pay Day
2. I'm Satisfied
3. Candy Man
4. Make Ma a Pallet on Your Floor
5. Talking Casey
6. Corrinna, Corrinna
7. Coffee Blues
8. Louis Collins
9. Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
10. If You Don't Want Me Baby
11. Spike Driver Blues
12. Beulah Land
0. DISC 2:
1. Since I've Laid My Burden Down
2. Moaning the Blues
3. Stocktime (Buck Dance)
4. Lazy Blues
5. Richland Woman Blues
6. Wise and Foolish Virgins (Tender Virgins)
7. Hop Joint
8. Monday Morning Blues
9. I've Got the Blues and I Can't Be Satisfied
10. Keep on Knocking
11. Chicken, The
12. Stagolee
13. Nearer My God to Thee
0. DISC 3:
1. Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home
2. Boys You're Welcome
3. Joe Turner Blues
4. First Shot Missed Him
5. Farther Along
6. Funky Butt
7. Spider, Spider
8. Waiting For You
9. Shortnin' Bread
10. Trouble, I've Had It All My Days
11. Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me
12. Good Morning, Carrie
13. Nobody Cares For Me
14. All Night Long
15. Hey, Honey, Right Away
16. You've Got to Die
17. Goodnight Irene
Code: QZZQ
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 181832
Credits

Producer
Engineer Jeff Zaraya
THE COMPLETE STUDIO RECORDINGS contains TODAY! (1966)/THE IMMORTAL MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT (1967)/LAST SESSIONS (1966).
Solo performer: Mississippi John Hurt (vocals, guitar).
Producer: Patrick Sky.
Reissue producer: Tom Vickers.
Recorded at Manhattan Towers Hotel, New York, New York in February 1966. Includes liner notes by John Milward.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Although not as consistently magnificent as Hurt's 1928 recordings, the performances the artist recorded for Vanguard in the mid 1960's would be the zenith of many blues artist's entire careers. Songs like the opening "Payday" and "Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home" rank with any folk-blues song ever recorded. This fantastic set collects the three albums Vanguard released in Hurt's lifetime and as such is undeniably the package to go for to acquire these later gems. ~ Thomas Ward