Songs of Mississippi John Hurt [Import]

Product Description:
Japanese remastered mini-LP gatefold paper sleeve reissue of 1999 album originally released on the Philo label features 15 versions of classic Hurt songs, with harmonica, drums, bass, piano, saxophone & trumpet added on various tracks. Tokuma. 2002.

Songs of Mississippi John Hurt,Bill Morrissey,Folk

Average customer rating: Average Singer - Great Album Morrissey is a songwiter's songwriter. Bill Morrissey's interpretation of Hurt's songs is brilliant He gets inside these songs like no one else He Nailed It

Songs of Mississippi John Hurt Bill Morrissey Manufacturer: Philo / Umgd ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Night Train You'll Never Get to Heaven Friend of Mine North Something I Saw or Thought I Saw ASIN: B00000HZPU Release Date: 1999-02-02

Tracks:

1. If You Don't Want Me
2. Avalon Blues
3. Shake That Thing
4. Louis Collins
5. First Shot Missed Him
6. Big Leg Blues
7. Hey, Honey, Right Away
8. Joe Turner Blues
9. I'm Satisfied
10. Beulah Land
11. Funky Butt
12. Coffee Blues
13. Monday Morning Blues
14. Good Morning, Miss Carrie
15. Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight

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Though he'd never recorded a John Hurt song before, the music of the Avalon, Mississippi, master has run through Bill Morrissey. The hop-skip-jump fingerstyle patterns and the wry somewhere-between-comedy-and-pathos tone of Morrissey's vignettes boast the effortless air of the blues and partly explain why his own work stands apart from that of less-distinctive post-Dylan singer-songwriters. This tribute to the Delta bluesman (who died in 1966 after making a late-in-life comeback) is surprising for the spacious, eclectic acoustic arrangements. Harmonica and melodic bass dominate the songs. Horns, piano, and vocal harmonies blend with Morrissey's charming, scuffed-up delivery. The song selection surprises, too. Rather than a parade of greatest hits, the album focuses on Hurt at his most playful. But the lonely lyricism of "Avalon Blues" and the gospel elegy "Louis Collins" insure that the darker mysteries of the blues are never far away. --Roy Kasten

Customer Reviews:

Average Singer - Great Album.......2002-08-06

Bill Morrissey should never win prizes for his singing - but his guitar playing is way above most, and he has combined his talents to produce a wonderful tribute to Mississippi John Hurt. If you love blues (I'm guilty), this is an album you will listen to again and again. Morrissey does an excellent job of reproducing Hurt's driving, finger style guitar rhythms, and his somewhat rumbling vocals work exceptionally well with Hurt's songs.

Highly recommended.

Morrissey is a songwiter's songwriter........1999-05-25

This album is a slight departure for Morrissey with regard to the horn section. But I love it. It works. Morrissey has always been a songwriter's songwriter and remains very much respected amoung the many songwriters he has introduced to his audience. Among them is Peter Keane, an exceptional ragtime blues guitarist and songwriter/performer. Another old friend of Morrissey is the brilliant songwriter Bob Martin whose CD "The River Turns The Wheel" is truly a masterpiece with Morrissey doing backing vocals on "Stella Kerouac". Absolutely breathtaking.

Morrissey continues to add more quality writing with this CD to the body of work he has produced and unselfishly introduce many outstanding performers.

Bill Morrissey's interpretation of Hurt's songs is brilliant.......1999-04-24

We've known for a long time Morrissey's ability to convince us with tight lyrics, surprising and powerful phrasing, and dead-on arrangements. And we heard his ability to make covers fresh in his collaboration with Greg Brown on "Friend of Mine" (Philo) But this recent album is pure genius in interpretation, pacing, and genuine homage paid to a master, Mississippi John Hurt. Joan Baez says in her autobiography, "Perhaps people don't thank the old lions enough for having given away their entire youth to a million eyes they will never see." In this album, with utter humility and grace, Morrissey thanks the old lion. He speaks for those of us who didn't know quite how to say it. The CD is simply beautiful. Thank you, Bill.

He gets inside these songs like no one else.......1999-04-21

This is a beautiful album. John Hurt's guitar playing was so amazing that his songs haven't gotten that much attention. Morrissey fixes that, by getting inside them and showing just what they have to say. Beautiful, swinging, gentle music. Long ago I saw Dave Van Ronk sing a song that asked, "did you love John Hurt, did you hear him play?" In his liner notes, Morrissey answers "no" to the second question. This disc is evidence that he would say "yes" to the first.

He Nailed It.......1999-03-06

You need a little courage to think you can bring something new to a musician as singular as John Hurt. Morrissey does it by careful selection of songs with an emphasis on the humor and fun in Hurt's music, a good match. Peter Keane has always sounded like he's listened to Hurt all his life and plays beautifully here.

Average customer rating:

Songs of Mississippi John Hurt ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Folk | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000TAOWU Release Date: 2003-09-16

Tracks:

1. If You Dont Want Me
2. Avalon Blues
3. Shake That Thing
4. Louis Collins
5. First Shot Missed Him
6. Big Leg Blues
7. Hey Honey Right Away
8. Joe Turner Blues
9. Im Satisfied
10. Beulah Land
11. Funky Butt
12. Coffee Blues
13. Monday Morning Blues
14. Good Morning Miss Carrie
15. Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight

Album Description

Japanese remastered mini-LP gatefold paper sleeve reissue of 1999 album originally released on the Philo label features 15 versions of classic Hurt songs, with harmonica, drums, bass, piano, saxophone & trumpet added on various tracks. Tokuma. 2002.

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