Blues singer
Guitarist
March 8, 1893 – November 2, 1966
Credits:
Albums:
1928 Sessions (1979); Ain't
Nobody's Business (2008); American Epic: The Best of Mississippi John Hurt (2017);
Avalon (2018); Avalon Blues (2012); Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh
Recordings (1996); Blues Essentials (2008); Blues Routes Mississippi John Hurt
(2009); Bluesville Presents (2024); Candy Man (2009); Candy Man Blues (2019); Christian
Hymns - Delta Blues (2018); Coffee Blues (1995); D.C. Blues - The Library of
Congress Recordings, Vol. 2 (2000); D.C. Blues: The Library of Congress
Recordings, Volume 1 (2004); Discovery (2021); Folk Songs and Blues (1963); Frankie
& Albert (2005); Got The Blues (Can't Be Satisfied) (2008); I'm Satisfied (2005);
Last Sessions (1966); Legend (1997); Live (2002); Live Blue Notes (2015); Louis
Collins (2015); Make Me A Pallet (1991); Mississippi John Hurt Memorial
Anthology (1994); Mr. Hurt Goes to Washington (2021); Rediscovered (1998); Remastered
from the Archives (2018); Satisfied (1960); Spike Driver Blues: The Complete 1928
Okeh Recordings (Bonus Track Version) (2016); Stack O' Lee (2019); Stack o' Lee
Blues (2015); The Best Of (1971); The Candy Man (2017); The Complete Studio
Recordings (2000); The Greatest Songsters: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological
Order, 1927-1929 (1990); The Immortal (2006); The Immortal Mississippi John
Hurt (1967); The Library of Congress Sessions, July 1963 (2014); The Rough
Guide to Mississippi John Hurt (2019); Today! (1966); Vanguard Visionaries (2007);
Worried Blues (1964).
Songs:
Ain't No Tellin'; Avalon
Blues; Avalon, My Home Town; Beulah Land; Big Leg Blues; Blue Harvest Blues; Boys,
You're Welcome; Candy Man Blues; Coffee Blues; Corrinna, Corrinna; Goodnight
Irene; Got the Blues; Hey, Honey, Right Away; Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight;
If You Don’t Want Me, Baby; I'm Satisfied; Joe Turner Blues; Louis Collins; Make
Me a Pallet on Your Floor; Monday Morning Blues; My Creole Belle; Poor Boy,
Long Ways From Home; Praying on the Old Camp Ground; Richland Women Blues; Shortnin'
Bread; Spanish Fandang; Spider, Spider; Spike Driver Blues; Stack O'Lee Blues; Stagolee;
The Chicken; You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley.
Movies and television:
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Man Called Hurt: The Life and Music of Mississippi John Hurt (2024); A Rosewood
Daydream (1970); American Epic (2017); Dead Season (2012); Deadwood (2004); Festival
(1967); Field Day (2004); Following Sean (2005); Infinitely Polar Bear (2014); Legends
of Country Blues Guitar (1994); Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2013); Mr.
Mercedes (2017–2018); P.O.V. (2007); Passage to Mars (2016); Revelation Road:
The Beginning of the End (2013); Shadrach (1998); Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
(2021); The Blues (2003); The Howlin' Wolf Story (2003); The Natural History of
the Chicken (2000); The Yellow Handkerchief (2008); This Hour Has Seven Days (1966);
Two Trains Runnin' (2016); Walk the Line (2005); Welcome to the Basement (2015).