American singer-songwriter Tom Paxton, who met Hurt and played on the same bill as him at the Gaslight in Greenwich Village around 1963, wrote and recorded a song about him in 1977 entitled "Did You Hear John Hurt?
Американский певец и поэт Том Пакстон, который в 1963 году выступал на одной сцене с Хёртом в The Gaslight Cafe в Гринвич-Виллидж, написал песню «Did You Hear John Hurt?» («Вы слышали, Джон Хёрт?»).