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Legend - Mississippi John Hurt
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  1. Trouble I Had All My Days
  2. Pera-Lee
  3. C.C. Rider
  4. Louis Collins
  5. Coffee Blues
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  1. Trouble I Had All My Days
  2. Pera-Lee
  3. C.C. Rider
  4. Louis Collins
  5. Coffee Blues
  6. Nobody's Dirty Business
  7. Do Lord, Remember Me]
  8. Monday Morning Blues
  9. Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me
  10. Payday
  11. Stack O' Lee Blues
  12. Casey Jones]
  13. Frankie and Albert
  14. Stocktime (Buck Dance)
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These 14 songs were recorded in 1963 and 1964; material from these sessions appeared briefly on Canada's Rebel label, as well as Piedmont. The mood is late-night informal, although there's little, if anything, in the Hurt catalog that could not be called informal. Hurt's originals are dotted with standards like "C.C. Rider," "Do Lord Remember Me," "Casey Jones," and a seven-minute "Stack-O-Lee." It's not as forceful, perhaps, as his best-known recordings, and some of the songs are duplicated on other releases, but the ...

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Legend 1997, Rounder

UPC: 011661110021

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