Music night!: "Mississippi" John Smith Hurt; storyteller, entertainer, and singer.

Ok, gonna listen to some music tonight and live blog it. That's right.




Museum: http://www.msjohnhurtmuseum.com/

Bio: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:wifuxq95ldke~T1

Good bio, in French: http://latailla.club.fr/JohnHurt/MJHpage.html
Translations: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Flatailla.club.fr%2FJohnHurt%2FMJHpage.html&sl=fr&tl=en&history_state0=

Bio: http://www.mindspring.com/~dennist/#Biographical%20Information

Great youtube story below (with Pete Seeger, Hedy West, and Paul Cadwell!) + Goodnight Irene. Gorgeous. Spend 6 minutes and watch it.



According to personal biography of his life John Hurt learn to love and appreciate music and guitar playing from William H Carson, a man infatuated with his teacher at the St. James School, located in Avalon, Mississippi. John Hurt stated, " I wasn't allowed to bother Mr. Carson's guitar. I would wait until he feel asleep at my house, then I would slip his guitar into my room and try to play. There I learned to play the guitar at the age of nine years old. After that, my mother bought me a second hand guitar at the price of $1.50! 1 can tell you there was no beautiful sound than my own guitar music. I was playing for country dances at the same time working very hard on a farm new Avalon Mississippi."




You got to walk that lonesome valley.
Well, you got to walk it for yourself.
Ain’t nobody else can walk it for you.
You got to walk that valley for yourself.

My mother had to walk that lonesome valley.
Well, she had to walk it for herself.
Yes, nobody else could walk it for her.
Yeah, she had to walk that valley for herself.

Oh yes, you got to walk that lonesome valley.
Well, you got to walk it for yourself.
Yes, nobody else can walk it for you.
You got to walk.

My father had to walk that lonesome valley.
He had to walk it for his self.
Yes, nobody else can walk it for him.
Now he had to walk.

Oh, Jesus had to walk that lonesome valley
He had to walk it for his self.
Yes, nobody else could walk it for him.
He had to walk that valley for his self.

Oh yes, you got to walk that lonesome valley.
Well, you got to walk it for yourself.
Yes, nobody else can walk it for you.
You got to walk that valley for yourself.