mississippi john hurt

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,247

By Erik Loomis

In General

On November 27, 2022

This is the grave of Mississippi John Hurt. Born in 1893 in Teoc, Mississippi, John Hurt grew up as part of the impoverished sharecropping Black working class of the South. He learned to play guitar as a kid and started playing at dances by the...