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Upon locating Hurt, Hoskins persuaded him to perform several songs, to ensure that he was genuine. Hoskins was convinced and, seeing that Hurt's guitar playing skills were still intact, encouraged him to move to
Washington, D.C., and perform for a broader audience. Early in 1963 Hurt recorded an
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came through the area. Hurt recalled that one wanted to hire him: "One of them wanted me, but I said no because I just never wanted to get away from home." In 1923, he played with the fiddle player Willie
Narmour as a substitute for Narmour's regular partner, Shell Smith.
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proceeded from his finger-picking, and while he's not the only quietly conversational singer in the modern folk tradition, no one else has talked the blues with such delicacy or restraint."
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Avalon, my home town, always on my mind / Avalon, my home town.
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style of playing was meant for dancing. On occasion, a
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Ostrow, Marty; Howard, Ira, eds. (September 7, 1963).
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Sacred and Secular: The Library of Congress Recordings
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Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues
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1075:"Trail of the Hellhound: Mississippi John Hurt"
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