Mississippi John Hurt

So I got to listen tho him ! :-)

Excellent! Thank you, Rapi. Another one of my favorites, John Lee Hooker: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUUyFrHERpU (From Blues Brothers). Hooker died in 2001. He was a very beloved person, lived modestly in small house in an ordinary neighborhood.

vinyl is the best

I love vinyl. If my grandchildren ever listened to it they would probably hate it, or at least look at me like I'm crazy. Those tiny "snaps" are wonderful!

Amongst my very favourite kind of acoustic blues.

Oooh, a French Canadian blues fan! ;-)

I can play some too on my acoustic guitar Diane.
I have seen so many Blues shows but much less since a couple a decades.

It seems to me that blues has dropped out of sight. Not surprising, but certainly disappointing. Or, it could be that I just don't hear it played on the local Public Broadcasting station. The San Francisco station had a regular blues program.

I'm far too young to remember vinyl records :-)) But I've saved that link for listening to later!

What? You're kidding, right? If not, you have missed out on an important kind of antique. Thanks, Keith!

i actually had quite a lot of vinyl records - mainly Classic Rock. I stupidly sold them on when CDs came out :-))

How was I to know they'd make a comeback and some would become quite collectable?

I think we're all kicking ourselves over that, Keith! I remember taking a long time to get used to the sound of discs, sort of a metallic, harsh sound quality.

Gosh, how you take me back in time, Diane, to my buying my first Mississippi John Hurt album in 1968 form a record shop in Leeds called Track One. I still have that vinyl somewhere in the house ... Nowadays I listen through the computer and it's not the same. Thank you for provoking the memories with this photograph. I think I'll go and listen to "Make me a pallet on your floor" ...

Oh, one of the most well-known blues numbers! I've had a few of my vinyls in storage for a long time. I suppose they are warped by now, even though I arranged them vertically. I just watched a documentary on Youtube about the blues influence on UK music in the early days. There are quite a few docs about that, as well as books, of course. In the 1960s and 70s, I was one of the few white people I knew who loved blues and soul music. Everyone else was crazy about Beatles, Doors, Rolling Stones (who were way more blues-influenced than the Beatles were), Led Zeppelin, and all the "hippie bands."

Haha! Thanks, Rapi. He's not exactly blues now, but I know what you mean. He has written the musical scores for dozens of movies, very successful. This was his most bluesy album (1972): www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtW8RkI3-c4

Hurt is a good name for such a person of an ethnic group who was hurt for such a long time...
Nice taster in your YouTube link. For me sometimes it's not easy to understand all the words.