After all, some time worked out to browse into a stack of publications that were sent in our way – yes, life became chaotic as always. Large shoutout for the participant for ecstetic music, Ai TechnologiaTo keep the fort and drop solid reviews while I was busy disguising my life. I managed to sneak into an evaluation of Buddy”S This is Buddy Guy! And Scrapper Blackwells Mr. Scrapers Blues-Sowohl on 180-gram vinyl with all-analog mastering also on the Buddy Guy for his appearance Sinner, One of the most interesting vampire films that I have seen for some time, with a killer soundtrack and a Juke joint in Mississippi from the 1930s, which felt like a character. Speaking Mississippi…
Craft Recordings and Bluesville Records dropped the new edition of Mississippi John Hurt’s legendary album from 1966 Today! On March 14, 2025 – and if you thought it was easy to grab a copy, think about it again. The vinyl is pressed on high-quality 180 gram vinyl in quality recordings with all-analog championship by grammy-nominated Matthew Lutthans (the mastering laboratory) and is in a loyal reproduced tip-on jacket with an OBI strip, the insightful linner notes of Grammy-Winning producer and writer Scott Billington Contains.
In addition to the vinyl, Today! is available via digital platforms such as standard and 192/24 hi-res audio formats, so that this new edition for blues enthusiasts and audiophiles is equally a must.
Bluesville Records was launched in early 2024 and the fundamental blues heritage of America and its groundbreaking artists through carefully curated publications such as this from the catalogs of legendary labels such as Stax, Prestige, Vee-Jay, Vanguard, Rounder and Riverside.
Mississippi John Hurt was not a typical bluesman who emblazoned on a beaten guitar – no, this guy was a gentle soul with a finger pick style, so smooth that he could let a stone cry. Hurt, born in 1893 than in Sharecropper, spent more time for agriculture than the persecution of fame and taught himself more time between the transport of plants. He only hit the spotlight shortly before his death in the year ’66.
In the roaring twenties, he played with Fiddle player Willie Narmour Gigs, who had a good sense to push Hurt’s name to Okeh Records. Nevertheless, success was a long time – because nothing about this story is quick or simple, just like the blues itself.
Hurt cut a handful of tracks for Okeh in 2008- “Frankie”, “Candy Man Blues”, “Stack O ‘Lee Blues”-Alles calm, relaxed and about as far from the growling Grit of Son House or Charlie Patton as you can. It was trouble that people didn’t know what to do with a bluesman who heard as if he were drinking tea instead of spitting fire. Hurt did not watch fame anyway; He was completely happy to dig in the dirt and to care for his farm like a man who knew his place.
30 years faster forward, and the Volks -Revival scholars finally found. They dusted his old recordings, found the 70-year-old Mississippi legend and told him that it was time to hide and come on stage. So Hurt was packed and moved to Washington DC, where he spent his last years for the Library of Congress, played festivals and coffee houses. Not bad for a man who once thought that music was just a hobby.
Posted in ’66, Today! is the recording that Mississippi John Hurt’s legacy has quite sealed. It is the one in which he effortlessly flows to old country blouses and even spirituals such as “Louis Collins” and “Beulah Land”. It is the album that pulled him out of the darkness of the folk revival and the spotlight and introduced a wider audience in its gentle, hypnotic style.
Over the years, Today! Sitting not only on dusty shelves – it inspired a number of younger artists who actually understood it: John Fahey, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Beck and Gillian. Not too shabby for a man who started as a farm. And if you need evidence, the Library of the 2009 library was officially by adding it to its national recording register. That’s right, that’s not just a dusty old blues record – it’s history.
1966’s Today! Is an uncomplicated album-Nur Mississippi John Hurt, his voice and his guitars play gentle folk blues. This new edition is noticeable thanks to its quiet noise floor, so that the music can be clearly and with more presence than my older press.
Handicrafts also reproduced the original orange Vanguard “Stereolab” label, which is a nice nod for collectors. The recording itself sounds warm and intimate how Hurt sits nearby and shares his songs quietly without additional production cords – equipped, accessible and certainly much more affordable than any NM copy of older prints that you will probably find online.
Where to buy: $ 32.99 At Amazon