American Epic: The Best of Mississippi John Hurt Autolux

American Epic: The Best of Mississippi John Hurt AutoluxBlues fingerpicking guitarist, singer, and sharecropper, Mississippi John Hurt was born in the heart of Mississippi Hill Country, along the veiny tributaries of the great American river. His moving renditions of "Frankie" and "Spike Driver Blues" were included in Harry Smith's American Anthology of Folk Music in 1952 and were vitally influential on the Greenwich Village folk music revival of the 1960s, as well as John Fahey's development of the

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The project officially came to a close when leader Willie “Slim” Ayers passed on September 17

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Originally released in 2002 as the third single off the White Stripes' third album White Blood Cells

Somehow I'm still here

Third Man Records unearths Neil Young’s A Letter Home

to borrow Dwight Yoakam’s line about Roy Orbison’s voice

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Charley Patton's Volume 3 from our highly-anticipated Document Records reissue series on black

It’s not every writer who can emerge from these corners with anything approaching grace