>“I talked to the curator,” Mary Frances Hurt, the bluesman’s granddaughter, tells NPR’s Neda Ulaby. “He called me with tears in his voice. He said that it’s a mess. It’s a devastating mess.”
>The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office said that an electrical technician was called to the site, where he found the building ablaze, as the Clarion Ledger’s Pam Dankins reports. The police don’t suspect foul play, but Mary Frances Hurt tells NPR she believes it may have been arson.
>The museum, a 200-year-old shack with a tin roof, was once Hurt’s home. The country-blues singer and guitarist was born in the late 1800s, and he lived most of his life in Avalon, an all-Black town in the eastern Mississippi Delta. Hurt first recorded music in the 1920s, but he didn’t achieve national recognition until his talents were rediscovered during the American folk revival in the ’60s. From 1963 until his death in 1966, he played at colleges, coffeehouses and before thousands of fans at the Newport Folk Festival.
Fuck whoever did this if it was indeed arson. Goddamn.
This is heartbreaking. He is my absolute main influence as a musician.
But, It’s amazing that we even know who he is. He could have very easily disappeared into history. Read about him if you don’t know.
His music implies that he is a gentle, kind soul. It is endlessly beautiful and comforting to me.
National fucking tragedy. What a shame.
Hopefully the silver lining is that more people are now introduced to this man’s music because of this tragedy. Mississippi John hurt is a top tier definitive American artist
Obviously a huge tragedy, but isn’t having your museum burn down the most blues shit possible?
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>“I talked to the curator,” Mary Frances Hurt, the bluesman’s granddaughter, tells NPR’s Neda Ulaby. “He called me with tears in his voice. He said that it’s a mess. It’s a devastating mess.”
>The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office said that an electrical technician was called to the site, where he found the building ablaze, as the Clarion Ledger’s Pam Dankins reports. The police don’t suspect foul play, but Mary Frances Hurt tells NPR she believes it may have been arson.
>The museum, a 200-year-old shack with a tin roof, was once Hurt’s home. The country-blues singer and guitarist was born in the late 1800s, and he lived most of his life in Avalon, an all-Black town in the eastern Mississippi Delta. Hurt first recorded music in the 1920s, but he didn’t achieve national recognition until his talents were rediscovered during the American folk revival in the ’60s. From 1963 until his death in 1966, he played at colleges, coffeehouses and before thousands of fans at the Newport Folk Festival.
Fuck whoever did this if it was indeed arson. Goddamn.
This is heartbreaking. He is my absolute main influence as a musician.
But, It’s amazing that we even know who he is. He could have very easily disappeared into history. Read about him if you don’t know.
His music implies that he is a gentle, kind soul. It is endlessly beautiful and comforting to me.
National fucking tragedy. What a shame.
Hopefully the silver lining is that more people are now introduced to this man’s music because of this tragedy. Mississippi John hurt is a top tier definitive American artist
Obviously a huge tragedy, but isn’t having your museum burn down the most blues shit possible?
Anybody with a Spotify link?