“At about the age of eight, Hurt came under the influence of a local guitarist named William Henry Carson…One evening he awoke his mother, who was astonished to discover her young son playing the same tunes as Carson. At this point, Hurt requested a guitar of his own. Unable to purchase a new guitar, his mother paid $1.50 for a secondhand guitar, ‘Black Annie,’ from a white man for whom she did household chores” (Daniel Fleck, Old-Time Herald, 2010).
Mississippi John Hurt “Stack O' Lee Blues”
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