Rediscoveries: John Hurt and Bukka White

Call it a mixture of persistence and providence, but the town names of Avalon and Aberdeen in song titles by Mississippi John Hurt and Bukka White were the keys to their rediscoveries by Tom Hoskins and Jim Fahey. While on a visit to a Blues Trail marker unveiling in Mississippi, Robert Plant described Hurt and White as messengers from another time.

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I just learned that legendary Okeh recording artist Lonnie Johnson supervised John Hurt's 1928 recording sessions in New York City and showed him around the town.

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Bukka them jitterbug blues. Hey now.