Talk:Mississippi John Hurt

message: Wasn't he believed to be dead? I heard a story that he walked into the newport festival and people didn't believe that it was him.. "No way man, John Hurt is dead..." and then he picked up a guitar and convinced him. Can anyone confirm or deny this? thanks- reverb10
:Sounds like the stuff of legend to me.  Before the sixties, John Hurt only recorded a handful of songs, and that was way back in 1928.  By the time of his rediscovery he had been mostly forgotten and all but retired from music.  He would have had to have reached some legendary status in order for the next generation to have rumored his death.  --buck 04:17, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Hurt appeared on the extremely influential Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music - which I suspect a huge percentage of attendees at the Newport Festival owned, with even more having heard it heard.  So the story is possible.     Steven R. (talk) 11:29, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: I believe M.J. Hurt deserves a slightly higher rating on WP:Roots Music. I'm going to go ahead and bump it up from "low" to "mid". I.M.S. (talk) 19:16, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Raising "importance" on WP:Roots Music 

message: The intro and the infobox state that he died in Grenada, Mississippi. The section "Rediscovery" states that he died in Avalon. If there is uncertainty about where he died, it should be stated consistently throughout. Jwicklatz (talk) 03:01, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Eagle and LeBlanc state, explicitly, Grenada County Hospital.   It's usually a pretty reliable source, but I know it is not infallible.   I've tweaked the text accordingly - but, am happy to discuss here if there is continuing uncertainty.   Ghmyrtle (talk) 19:32, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Place of death 

message: I've added a footnote, in an attempt to summarise the uncertainty over his birth date - based on the possible dates included in Eagle and LeBlanc's Blues: A Regional Experience.  If anyone wants to suggest a better way of dealing with the uncertainty, I'm happy to discuss it here.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 19:31, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth date uncertainty 

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thread_title:  External links modified (February 2018) 

message: I've removed the reference to "Piedmont blues" from the infobox - it doesn't seem to be mentioned as characteristic of his style in the article.  What alerted me to this was a mention in an article by Ray Templeton in the magazine Blues & Rhythm, in a discussion on blues reference books and online sources, where he says: "This is where I bang on yet again about how Wikipedia thinks Mississippi John Hurt plays in the Piedmont style...".  Mr Templeton has never raised that point here - and I will remind him of that - but if reliable sources can be found that justify reinstating the genre, no problem.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 11:02, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Piedmont blues"