Complex sentence: Hurt attempted further negotiations with Okeh to record again, but his records were commercial failures, and after Okeh Went out of business during the Great Depression, he returned to Avalon and obscurity, working as a sharecropper and playing at local parties and dances.
Split into simpler sentences: Hurt attempted further negotiations with Okeh to record again, but his records were commercial failures. Okeh went out of business during the Great Depression, and Hurt returned to Avalon and obscurity, working as a sharecropper and playing at local parties and dances.