Various - Avalon Blues (A Tribute To The Music Of Mississippi John Hurt) album flac

It's more a folk-rock-blues crossover album than a Delta blues one, which is fine: tribute albums shouldn't be re-creations of the originals, and whether or not it was the intention, it will expose some of John Hurt's songs to fans who identify themselves primarily as folk or rock listeners. And not many of these songs are very well-known, with the exception of "Candy Man" (done by Steve & Justin Earle) and "Stagolee" (sung by Beck).

Avalon, My Home Town. Monday Morning Blues.

Monday Morning Blues. Frankie & Albert. Avalon, My Home Town. 8. –Lucinda Williams. Angels Laid Him Away.

Get the Tempo of the tracks from Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt (2001) by Various Artists. This album has an average beat per minute of 118 BPM (slowest/fastest tempos: 94/138 BPM). See its BPM profile at the bottom of the page. Tracklist Avalon Blues: A Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt. 1. 2.

Listen to music from Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt like Sliding Delta (Ben Harper), Chicken (Goeff Muldaur) & more. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt.

Singer/songwriter Peter Case put this project together for Vanguard, motivated by the good sense that long ago made him a Mississippi John Hurt fan. Not known as a blues musician, Case has spent his career in different orbits, which explains some of his choices for this set's guest artists (Lucinda Williams and Beck, among others, aren't exactly the players blues fans would expect to find on such a project).

The genius of Avalon Blues is that it's not as much about Hurt per se (check out Vanguard's Newport Folk Festival: Best of the Blues, 1959-1968 to hear Hurt's dramatic return to the scene before a new generation of listeners) as about the people paying the tribute. Just as Dylan went to this well for inspiration, others as obvious as Chris Smither, Taj Mahal, and John Hiatt, and as surprising as Beck and Victoria Williams, have profited from Hurt's teachings. Taj Mahal could do an entire compilation album of his own of Hurt songs he's recorded over the years; Case picks an appropriately left-field version of "My Creole Belle" from Hanapepe Dream, the album Mahal made with the Hula Blues Band. Mahal's genius is in seeing the unlikely connections between seemingly disparate genres, and here he seamlessly adapts Hurt's country blues to a ukulele arrangement.