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I've been playing his music for many years, and have learned most of the 85+ songs he recorded in his long life. In 2007 I made a CD of his music, mostly attempting to copy his special way of performing his own songs, blues and spiritual standards. John picked up this guitar style from someone older - and indeed it was a very old style going back to the 19th century. John Hurt made it his own for the 20th century. Now I am trying to take it into the 21st. I like to create my own original arrangements of all kinds of songs, and find myself colaborating with many other singers and musicians. <br><br> <h2>Why create a new guitar style?</h2> Why not? <br><br> <h2>A Short "Mississippi" John Smith Hurt Bio: </h2> He was born in 1892 (thats what his gravestone says) in the hill country of Mississippi, and learned to play guitar from an older man, a roomer in his mother's house, and who was one of many unrecorded "legends" - these were the folks who probably invented the blues. He developed a guitar style very different from the delta blues being played just down the road - using mostly alternative base thumb picking and a very percussive, almost jazz like interplay with the other two fingers he mostly used. He was recorded in 1928 and 1929, the only blues musician from Mississippi to be so well considered that he was brought to New York City to record the second session. His records didn't sell much so he fell back into obscurity and continued to live and work around the hill country as a laborer, playing his unique brand of blues, spirituals and other types of songs for house parties, in road houses, and probably other gatherings. <br><br> In 1963 he was rediscovered by some blues musicologists, brought back to the East Coast, and played in the Newport folk festivals and coffee houses, recording a number of LPs for Vangard as well as the Library of Congress. Many of his performances were also recorded by amateurs and only recently have been released. In 1966 he moved back to Avalon, Mississippi where he died and was buried. His rediscovery and music were tremendously influential with many folk and rock musicians (some of his guitar licks can be heard on Beatles songs). </td> <td width="10" align="left" valign="top"><img src="img/shadow1.gif" border="0" width="10" height="32"></td> </tr> </table> <table bgcolor="#464646" width="800" height="32" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="222" bgcolor="#202020" align="left" valign="top"></td> <td width="10" align="left" valign="top"><img src="img/shadow2.gif" border="0" width="10" height="32"></td> <td width="558" align="left" valign="top"><img src="img/shadow2.gif" border="0" width="558" height="32"></td> <td width="10" align="left" valign="top"><img src="img/shadow2.gif" border="0" width="10" height="32"></td> </tr> </table> <table bgcolor="#202020" width="800" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td height="32" width="800" align="right" valign="middle" background="img/bluebg.gif">&copy; 2010 - zackniman.com &nbsp; </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width="3" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></td> </tr> </table> </center> </body> </HTML>