I was MC at various coffee houses in Vancouver, B,C, in the mid-60's and Hurt appeared at one of them. Thoroughly nice guy, especially compared to the act that played the week before, a real PITA I won't name. Hurt took the time to teach me Creole Belle, which I still play (more or less).
@5glbucket - This is in standard tuning. Key of C with only a few chords. Shows what a good finger picker can do with some clever work. Damn, I love this guy!
the greatest thing about mjh songs are that he lived em it's things he's been through and unfortunately some of us have lived em too but were all stronger and mjh should get more credit for his music than he does
For some people, the word pallet does not exist in their vocabulary. I've had people give looks like I violently deffacated in their pants for asking them if they wanted me to nake them a palllet.
MJH plays with such a lightness of touch and heart. Perhaps weird to say but there's a humanity in his playing and being that is unique to him. God Bless John Hurt. gerry cott.
However, if you're still unhappy, and haven't figured them out, the initials are - Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, Peter Green, Brownie McGhee, and of course Sea Sick Steve. If you'd looked to the right, and followed a course of listening to more of MJH's songs, then other artists would've cropped up, by clicking and listening to those, you'd have then encountered each of the people i'd quoted their initials. So by simply listening to more of this music genre, you'd have found your answers.
Continuation of my reply to breadcrumbsins - Why have I continued you may ask? To answer your question, since you made the effort, there is a limit on the text, some viewers to Youtube have short attention spans, quick to judge (sometimes wrongly), so you need to be quick with your point, but then again perhaps you're right - other people cannot interpret your words, others lack imagination, or initiative of thought which contribute to those interested, would seek the initials out...
there's so much warmth and experience of life flowing out of this music. it's overwhelming. only a man with good heart and soul can do this. god bless you for telling us your stories, john hurt!
I'm just discovering Mississippi John Hurt tonight. I'm mesmerized by the way he plays guitar. Something magical and special is going on but I don't understand what it is.
So sweet & smooth. He made it look so easy. So nice to see his greatness featured on youtube. I'll be he would have been so honoured to know that so many people have come to appreciate his excellence.
He had an uncanny ability to capture life in his songs...what a storyteller.
Actually its not that simple. its quite hard to play, because he is playing different parts with different fingers at the same time. i haven't found anyone on youtube that can make it sound like he does here. none of the covers ive heard done by other artists can play like he does either. i think they play it differently partly because it is so hard to play and it is hard because it is quite complicated.
@apemanchild Right on. Couldn't have said it better. John Hurt was absolutely the most overlooked bluesman of the era. That guitar style is COMPLETELY unique and has never once been properly duplicated by anybody. I've been practicing it for years and every time I think I got something close, I realize I'm so far off....MJH rules.
talent? have you ever tried to play like this? sounds simple but taking something simple and basic and making it come alive, mixing lilting melodic sounds with driving strong beat, clean but not to the point of prettiness, instead having this pulsating reality of the human condition. This playing has complexity while keeping the message simple and human.
such a great song. i listen to mjh when i go to sleep at night, and i don't get tired of him. it is a crime that he went undiscovered all those years and only became famous towards the end of his life. great artist. a guitarist friend tells me that the way mjh plays guitar is extremely hard to master.
I think they should make a Blues/roots Hero game - featuring this of course, among others like RJ, JLH, PG, BMcG, and more recent artists like SSS. It could also open up this style of music to new audiences? Instead of progressing to bigger sets, etc, you'd travel around riding the railroads, playing around camp fires, the whole hobo hog.
thatd be fuckin awesome. cant bellieve no one has thought of it before. i mean they have dj hero for fucks sake. why would anyone aspire to be comeone whos only talent is playing records. its absurd.
@BrownBoy69 But it's not about the talent, it's about the music. And this music is artistically superior to the art of mixing/scratching. Do you disagree?
@savagerabbit not really. i agree its not necessarily about the talent and that the most simplistic music is sometimes the best but i wouldn't go as far to say its artistically superior. that's just me though. the music is just different. electronic music is less emotive i suppose : /
@BrownBoy69 Who said this music is simpler? It's not simpler at all. It's probably more compositionally complex. It's not going very far to state that it's artistically superior. Electronic music can be very expressive, but mixing and scratching are not genuine creations, they are manipulations.
@sengoku7 I completely agree with you that this music needs to be introduced to a generation that will ultimately be responsible for carrying it on.
The problem with the guitar hero translation of this delta/acoustic blues style is that so much of this music revolves around the right hand picking technique and syncopation of the thumb and other fingers. I think they would have to create a new guitar controller with multiple right hand controls!
@sengoku7 Please have some respect for these artists. How are these "new audiences" going to know who your talking about unless you write out their names? Is this abreviation some new "cool" way of writing, or just plain laziness?
@breadcrumbsins Lol, I am respecting them - encouraging wider listening. Present a child with everything on a plate, they do not strive, or make the same effort, as when you capture their interest a little, and they actively seek out more, and learn more again beyond their original search. Think about it, think about your childhood etc. What were your passions? Were they the easy to access, simple ones, or did they require some effort on your part...? I'll continue this for the interested.
@sengoku7 I think a change of attitude may suit your needs. Perhaps if you didn't abbreviate the names of these people a newcomer to blues like me would be able to follow your conversations.
@sengoku7@sengoku7 I think a change of attitude may suit your needs. Perhaps if you didn't abbreviate the names of these people a newcomer to blues like me would be able to follow your conversations. Cheers mate!
Mississipi John Hurt, Leadbelly & Robert Johnson..they traded melodies , rythmes , words , prolly lots started from traditional never recorded songs. no sense to argue who was first. BUT John S Hurt finger picking style is called travis picking and IT IS Mississippi JSH picking. There's not too many around who can pick "Candyman "
It's amazing how little "flash" it actually takes to make some pretty damn fine music. Something more modern performers should consider! Just down home, honest, front porch music.!
Also for kcole 1203--Secrecy has nothing to do with where you put the pallet--You put it out of the flow of foot traffic so the kids won't get stepped on when the adults get up in the morning to put on the coffee and prepare breakfast
Are you serious? Sleep on a wooden pallet?? Unbelievable! My 20month old son makes pallets all the time to lay on! And he will tell you what they are, a blanket on the floor. Comments like kcole1203's is exactly why I don't leave the south? Sleep on a wooden pallet?? Jeez
Yeah the pallet in this context has nothing to do with the wooden platform used in shipping. It just means a blanket or several blankets and other things laid on the floor for padding, which someone then sleeps upon.
We used to sleep on pallets whenever my cousins would come to visit when we all kids. I dunno. I guess we all wanted to sleep under one big blanket. Anyway, I'm not that old, so the term hasn't died out, at least not in the South.
Actually, Mississippi John Hurt was the first to record this song in the late 1920s, however in 1934 ( I believe) another guy got the copyright to it. As to what a "pallet: is, cttxlv & apataphysician got it exactly right. In the context of this song, a pallet is a bed made of blankets or quilts on the floor. In the South this was normally done for unexpected house guest or children.
euhmm i'm not sure that I understand the lyrics.I'm not english... somebody can can explain what he's talking about? In french or in english doesin matter. thanks a lot!
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The pallet is a wooden frame that supports goods for shipping. Pallets are a lot cheaper than mattresses. While passing through on his way to less hospitable environs, he is requesting a friend to make a bed with blankets on a pallet on the floor. As the song goes on, the implication is that it is more than a simple innocent plea for modest accommodation because he is then asking for secrecy suggesting that it is an adulterous encounter.
Am from Texas, way out in the country. Actually a pallet is a bed on the floor of old hand stiched quilts and blankets on the floor of any room in the house for late arriving family and friends. I slept on a pallet at my grandma's house every summer. Best best spot was off in a corner under a window to stay cool.
This is so wonderful thanks for sharing. I'm a huge fan of old country blues and delta blues and it's so awesome to learn exactly what some of the terms that are in the lyrics truly mean! Thanks for sharing...
He's asking for a "pallet on the floor." A pallet (in the American county tradition) is generally a blanket and pillow on the ground where someone sleeps. He is traveling around and is tired and looking for a place to rest.
I, myself, like the bluegrass versions (J.E. Mainer and his Mountaineers) but if it wasn't for this great man, I wouldn't be able to listen to their version of the song.
@CraigKramer yeh i totally agree...his guitar playing was just otherworldly...i think because he didnt yell or groan the blues like some he was looked over...i think maybe bob dylan learned alot from this guy..what you think?
@arkee71 i believe it`s because he played country... it's not strange that in the us the genre classification obeys to race as much as music isn't it?
@oocelo to some extent i suppose thats true...especially in old days i would think...anymore we have black country artists..and white rappers...white blues legends...but they are more the exception than the rule...i play heavy blues rock and im white...lol
in fact I enfoy different music at all cause I m very please hearing new songs in very different times , for example jazz as welll as blues in the former times , für example Duke Ellington is a very great favorit of mine......thx a lot for sharing John Hurt......very well done :-) thx for sharing so much.....very heartly greetings .....your dearly friend bennylein...hugs love and peace :-)5*and more...
People tend to think of the innkeeper at Bethlehem as a bad guy who turned the Holy Family away. I think he's the patron saint of accommodating everybody, since he made improvised accommodations for them. After all, he didn't turn them away to make room for "more important" customers, or someone with no money -- they were just full up. So this song is for him and all the other people who show kindness to homeless strangers. I've been both in my time.
I was playing guitar in a park a little over a year ago, and a homeless traveler was resting under a tree near me with his rucksack and blanket laid out beside him. He asked if he could play something on my guitar, and when I handed it to him, this was the song he played and it was one of the most soulful things I'd ever heard. I don't think anyone who doesn't know what it's like to need a safe place to stay the night could ever play this song the right way.
I fell in love with this music over 20 years ago...25 years I guess and going through some hard times many years back I used to find such peace of heart and soul in this song....he was a gem.
I was so lucky to see him a bunch of times in a bunch of places. He made a room warmer with his personality. I hate to sound like an old fart, but those really were the days. Id love to see him at Grey Fox!! Ahhhhh.
Sorry bud. Wrong. Blues, since it's inception has been transmitted by watching and copying those who played the songs before you. Jimi and SVH both copied all the blues greats before them. Guess what? So did MJH, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson... They all sat down and did their damnedest to copy the way they saw other people play the songs.
What matters is what you do with that knowledge. If you got heart and soul, you got the blues. SVH had it, Jimi had it. Period.
sounds jus like aint no tellin', same tune
blefusku 2 days ago
El maestro.
fernandocharo 3 days ago
Rock me John!
rothcam2 1 week ago
LOVE THIS SONG
1988981 2 weeks ago
As I heard someone call him, the Yoda of blues, I like that.
Putting a lot of time into learning these tunes and boy does he make hard sound easy...
Also 2 people in the world are bell ends
wolfblass75 2 weeks ago
SUBLIME
lovenatalie100 1 month ago
Mississippi JOhn Hurt and Bert Jansch=most relaxing and peaceful voices ever and two of the best fingerpickers of all time and. RIP
GoodbyeBieber2 1 month ago
a pallet on the floor is one of the most peaceful and spiritual places to sleep
BLACKGURU635 2 months ago 2
plays guitar so good you wish he was your uncle
wayneiac1789 2 months ago
IMMENSE ARTISTE
bobbyjordan37 2 months ago
I was MC at various coffee houses in Vancouver, B,C, in the mid-60's and Hurt appeared at one of them. Thoroughly nice guy, especially compared to the act that played the week before, a real PITA I won't name. Hurt took the time to teach me Creole Belle, which I still play (more or less).
ianjcameron 2 months ago
@ianjcameron wow man, wow!
blefusku 2 days ago
Un gran maestro del blues y un gran guitarrista. God bless you John Hurt!
eldelatristefigura1 2 months ago
so what tuning does John Hurt play in? or is it just he's so good?
5glbucket 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Mississippi John Hurt
@5glbucket - This is in standard tuning. Key of C with only a few chords. Shows what a good finger picker can do with some clever work. Damn, I love this guy!
xcbikerdude 3 months ago
Just think how far we have come, Rap, Crap, This music is real music, Music from the soul. It will last forever!!!
hambone7590 4 months ago
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hambone7590 4 months ago
this is the best music there is! if you love raw blues you might like Rat Stomp :)
youtube.com/user/ratstompmusic
Our song Reckless Woman and Searching the Forest have a Delta blues style with slide guitar and fingerpicking
ratstompmusic 4 months ago
goosebumbs
midtrain1981 4 months ago
@midtrain1981 bumps
midtrain1981 4 months ago
the existence of this music gives men faith in the future of humanity
oloesnt 5 months ago
I love this man, love this song and love this video.
MrMikenotts01 6 months ago
so unique...so raw....no pick needed....thank the Universe for this incredible man.......
tokenannie 6 months ago 2
That he is still respected and people are still learning to play in his style has to say it all........I wish I could have seen him live.
45chilli 7 months ago
Don't you let my good girl catch you here
Please don't let my little girl catch you here
Yes, she might shoot you, liable ta cut you 'n starve you, too, no tellin' what she might do
prolly cut me too
7jack7 7 months ago
I was 15 or 16 and bought a music book of John Hurts´ songs.
I never forget my teacher telling me "If you learn these songs, you can teach me"
It sounds simple, but realy many of his songs were tough.
hoghash78 8 months ago
good version. i prefer the original a little more but still a great song
grizz22604 9 months ago
@grizz22604 in all earnestness, which is the original?
7jack7 7 months ago
I try to learn this marvelous break, ...
kwaazar 10 months ago
such a great song. I think Dylan had listened to John. I hear one of Dylan's songs in this song.
TheWolfDogMoon 10 months ago
@TheWolfDogMoon what song?
sloppydrunkenfoo1 7 months ago
the greatest thing about mjh songs are that he lived em it's things he's been through and unfortunately some of us have lived em too but were all stronger and mjh should get more credit for his music than he does
66644666 10 months ago
Sounds Like Dylan Mustve listened to Him... I Can Hear the Influence in some of his Songs....Its Like a Folk Blues...
Carlfgauge 10 months ago
Right on Carl....google 'John Jackson Remembered'.....last paragraph is worth it...
CharmedQuarkZ99 10 months ago
I luv this guy!
n2dabloo 10 months ago
Great music!!
n5393c 11 months ago
amazing
HiddenBlackHistory 11 months ago
A dear, beloved man. God bless John Hurt.
ytdsgdjgfueyxn537 1 year ago
He's great!!
anitadavideduo 1 year ago
For some people, the word pallet does not exist in their vocabulary. I've had people give looks like I violently deffacated in their pants for asking them if they wanted me to nake them a palllet.
WmLou 1 year ago
Beautiful
Betters4Millions 1 year ago
that picture at around :37 seconds is when a string broke (G string) and hit him in the head and he was replavceing it and telling a story..
GDguitarplayer 1 year ago
MJH plays with such a lightness of touch and heart. Perhaps weird to say but there's a humanity in his playing and being that is unique to him. God Bless John Hurt. gerry cott.
GerryCott 1 year ago 12
@GerryCott
I was going tio leave a comment Gerry but you've said what I feel.
Thanks
Steve
Accousticblues1 1 year ago
you can't not like this...
tadlee 1 year ago
One of the greatest bluesmen ever. Thanks.
Invicta60 1 year ago 2
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i learned how to be humble from mr hurt...thank you sir
arkee71 1 year ago
lol i always thought he white haha, well who gives ah fuck anyway... its just funky nevertheless...
john hurt truly is amazing :) love his tunes... so much soul and liveliness at the same time
donjaysus 1 year ago
However, if you're still unhappy, and haven't figured them out, the initials are - Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, Peter Green, Brownie McGhee, and of course Sea Sick Steve. If you'd looked to the right, and followed a course of listening to more of MJH's songs, then other artists would've cropped up, by clicking and listening to those, you'd have then encountered each of the people i'd quoted their initials. So by simply listening to more of this music genre, you'd have found your answers.
sengoku7 1 year ago
@sengoku7 Cheeky trickster you
MrFlatmint 1 year ago
@sengoku7 and yet you left out the most important of them all EJH...or SON HOUSE!...he taught robert johnson the blues
arkee71 1 year ago
Continuation of my reply to breadcrumbsins - Why have I continued you may ask? To answer your question, since you made the effort, there is a limit on the text, some viewers to Youtube have short attention spans, quick to judge (sometimes wrongly), so you need to be quick with your point, but then again perhaps you're right - other people cannot interpret your words, others lack imagination, or initiative of thought which contribute to those interested, would seek the initials out...
sengoku7 1 year ago
@sengoku7 WE IN N,E,UK,,CALL IT "VERBAL DIORREHA",,you must be american,,,,,????
honkydudeman 1 year ago
dislikes...seriously? I think peple are confused, not even sure what to click on....
nineveh420 1 year ago
awesome!
MauroPavanelli 1 year ago
made me cry so amazing
zaktox 1 year ago
there's so much warmth and experience of life flowing out of this music. it's overwhelming. only a man with good heart and soul can do this. god bless you for telling us your stories, john hurt!
nico19611 1 year ago
This song is amazing... just like the man who plays it.
red5media 1 year ago
There are many great blues artists, too many to mention. This guy is up there with the best of them. Thanks scmo.
johnmckinlay67 1 year ago
John Hurt is the absolute best.
RikJamezBich 1 year ago
How much have Bob Dylan or Lou Reed invented? Really?
Vascopim 1 year ago
lyrical, whimsical....
susansilk 1 year ago
Who wants to become a serious fingerpicking guitarist, must learn the lessons of Mississippi John.
Him used the alternating bass long time before Merle Travis
MassimoAlberto 1 year ago
otherwise known as "aint no tellin" on the 1928 okeh recordings.
ninestraycats 1 year ago
@ninestraycats "Ain't No Tellin" is a seperate song but to the same tune..
d3eztrickz 1 year ago
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ninestraycats 1 year ago
I'm just discovering Mississippi John Hurt tonight. I'm mesmerized by the way he plays guitar. Something magical and special is going on but I don't understand what it is.
yowzephyr 1 year ago
This guy was sure a helluva singer. Glad he got at least a small part of the recognition he deserved in the last years of his life.
curlybobz 1 year ago
All of a sudden i had this revelation....Isnt John Hurt like bluesy version of Bob Dylan.
rok26 1 year ago
@rok26
Isn't Bob Dylan like a foly version of John Hurt is more like it wouldn't you say?
rwebb61 1 year ago 2
So sweet & smooth. He made it look so easy. So nice to see his greatness featured on youtube. I'll be he would have been so honoured to know that so many people have come to appreciate his excellence.
He had an uncanny ability to capture life in his songs...what a storyteller.
ValsHere 1 year ago
Actually its not that simple. its quite hard to play, because he is playing different parts with different fingers at the same time. i haven't found anyone on youtube that can make it sound like he does here. none of the covers ive heard done by other artists can play like he does either. i think they play it differently partly because it is so hard to play and it is hard because it is quite complicated.
apemanchild 1 year ago
@apemanchild Right on. Couldn't have said it better. John Hurt was absolutely the most overlooked bluesman of the era. That guitar style is COMPLETELY unique and has never once been properly duplicated by anybody. I've been practicing it for years and every time I think I got something close, I realize I'm so far off....MJH rules.
seedubbayew 1 year ago
Wonderful song and great artist...
LosGumbo 1 year ago
talent? have you ever tried to play like this? sounds simple but taking something simple and basic and making it come alive, mixing lilting melodic sounds with driving strong beat, clean but not to the point of prettiness, instead having this pulsating reality of the human condition. This playing has complexity while keeping the message simple and human.
jaw444 1 year ago
such a great song. i listen to mjh when i go to sleep at night, and i don't get tired of him. it is a crime that he went undiscovered all those years and only became famous towards the end of his life. great artist. a guitarist friend tells me that the way mjh plays guitar is extremely hard to master.
derek4ur 1 year ago
great music, so simple and so rich of soul.
TzzX78 1 year ago
I've been looking for this song for years...thanks for posting!!!
chocolatemilkibar 1 year ago
When all else fails, there is John Hurt
7jack7 1 year ago
That would be the only game worth camping outside a gamestop for.
stankyleg420 1 year ago
owesome musician.amazing songs god bless America!! peace from Ecuador.!!...
loucatuu 1 year ago
Happy Birthday
homedepot20car 1 year ago
what a guy. most aritsts today cant even touch the kind of talent blues singers like MJH has. not even close.
stankyleg420 1 year ago 32
@stankyleg420 My favorite singin man.
bojo7407 7 months ago
@stankyleg420 John sebastian learned how to finger pick from him listen to its not time now by thye lovin spoonful
spacepatrolman 6 months ago
Yeah, this is great stuff!
lighteningboy 2 years ago
old american music is the best !!
Junera58 2 years ago 3
What a Wonderful Powerful Voice. . . .
markitopapito 2 years ago 3
I think they should make a Blues/roots Hero game - featuring this of course, among others like RJ, JLH, PG, BMcG, and more recent artists like SSS. It could also open up this style of music to new audiences? Instead of progressing to bigger sets, etc, you'd travel around riding the railroads, playing around camp fires, the whole hobo hog.
sengoku7 2 years ago 58
yes! i'd buy that quick. they could include a harmonica peripheral and add some guthrie.
booglerized 2 years ago 3
excellent idea. It would sell to me...
lhaffey1 2 years ago
No Charlie Patton? :)
Staggolee 1 year ago
thatd be fuckin awesome. cant bellieve no one has thought of it before. i mean they have dj hero for fucks sake. why would anyone aspire to be comeone whos only talent is playing records. its absurd.
TheBrowndawg 1 year ago
dont be so narrow minded. there's talent in mixing/scratching too. just different talent to that seen here :)
BrownBoy69 1 year ago
Careful though, there's a lot of fraudulent dj's, as there are jazz musicians, as there are anything.
saviouroftheuniverse 1 year ago
@BrownBoy69 But it's not about the talent, it's about the music. And this music is artistically superior to the art of mixing/scratching. Do you disagree?
savagerabbit 1 year ago
@savagerabbit not really. i agree its not necessarily about the talent and that the most simplistic music is sometimes the best but i wouldn't go as far to say its artistically superior. that's just me though. the music is just different. electronic music is less emotive i suppose : /
BrownBoy69 1 year ago
@BrownBoy69 Who said this music is simpler? It's not simpler at all. It's probably more compositionally complex. It's not going very far to state that it's artistically superior. Electronic music can be very expressive, but mixing and scratching are not genuine creations, they are manipulations.
savagerabbit 1 year ago
@savagerabbit Look, why does everyone who watches these videos feel a need to rant about how much better it is than modern music?
If you really think that, then why do you feel a need to keep going on about it?
MightyAlz 1 year ago
@MightyAlz Wait... you have a problem with people stating things that they believe?
savagerabbit 1 year ago
@savagerabbit absolutely not
stankyleg420 1 year ago
Yer an idiot....lol
2stupid2puke 1 year ago
@sengoku7 why would you want to sully blues like that?
ohthehumanity612 1 year ago
@sengoku7 I completely agree with you that this music needs to be introduced to a generation that will ultimately be responsible for carrying it on.
The problem with the guitar hero translation of this delta/acoustic blues style is that so much of this music revolves around the right hand picking technique and syncopation of the thumb and other fingers. I think they would have to create a new guitar controller with multiple right hand controls!
joeheavyflow 1 year ago
@joeheavyflow seriously, a little too good to be stripped down to chords
nineveh420 1 year ago
@sengoku7 is not a bad idea, but they need to sell mate
ManuRibeiro 1 year ago
@sengoku7 Please have some respect for these artists. How are these "new audiences" going to know who your talking about unless you write out their names? Is this abreviation some new "cool" way of writing, or just plain laziness?
breadcrumbsins 1 year ago
@breadcrumbsins Lol, I am respecting them - encouraging wider listening. Present a child with everything on a plate, they do not strive, or make the same effort, as when you capture their interest a little, and they actively seek out more, and learn more again beyond their original search. Think about it, think about your childhood etc. What were your passions? Were they the easy to access, simple ones, or did they require some effort on your part...? I'll continue this for the interested.
sengoku7 1 year ago
@sengoku7 that would be worth waiting outside of gamestop for...
stankyleg420 1 year ago
@sengoku7 thats the best fucking idea EVER.
seesamfall 1 year ago
@sengoku7 dont forget sonny boy
dread1566 10 months ago
@sengoku7
kids wouldnt even be able to mash the buttons like robert johnson hahaha
fucking shitass guitar-hero generation...so gross and stupid
DirtySanchezProject 9 months ago 14
@DirtySanchezProject i agree. when i see kids spending the time to get good at that game i just think stop wasting your time and pick a real guitar
gregorymwishart 2 months ago
@sengoku7 I think a change of attitude may suit your needs. Perhaps if you didn't abbreviate the names of these people a newcomer to blues like me would be able to follow your conversations.
chewy01234 8 months ago
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@sengoku7 @sengoku7 I think a change of attitude may suit your needs. Perhaps if you didn't abbreviate the names of these people a newcomer to blues like me would be able to follow your conversations. Cheers mate!
chewy01234 8 months ago
@sengoku7 love it great idea.
thrillhausen 6 months ago
One of my most favs for ten years!!!!
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thorivaldic 2 years ago
Lucinda Williams recorded this on one of her first albums; she does it well. If you can get her to play this at a performance, take a hankee.
spotoboy 2 years ago
Mississipi John Hurt, Leadbelly & Robert Johnson..they traded melodies , rythmes , words , prolly lots started from traditional never recorded songs. no sense to argue who was first. BUT John S Hurt finger picking style is called travis picking and IT IS Mississippi JSH picking. There's not too many around who can pick "Candyman "
spotoboy 2 years ago
It's amazing how little "flash" it actually takes to make some pretty damn fine music. Something more modern performers should consider! Just down home, honest, front porch music.!
mrsweettater 2 years ago 4
Incredible,never tought to find it on tube.
hottapper 2 years ago
@hottapper nice guitar pick going on
rastagator1 2 years ago
sounds like Cocaine blues !! sung by Keith Richards !! who did C.B ? who did this one ? thats amazing ... I think ...
cheers
AnitaNellcote 2 years ago
Everyone knows a pallet is a fire breathing dragon.
Andrew301 2 years ago
Also for kcole 1203--Secrecy has nothing to do with where you put the pallet--You put it out of the flow of foot traffic so the kids won't get stepped on when the adults get up in the morning to put on the coffee and prepare breakfast
sheb1222 2 years ago
Are you serious? Sleep on a wooden pallet?? Unbelievable! My 20month old son makes pallets all the time to lay on! And he will tell you what they are, a blanket on the floor. Comments like kcole1203's is exactly why I don't leave the south? Sleep on a wooden pallet?? Jeez
spidermonkey1979 2 years ago 2
Yeah the pallet in this context has nothing to do with the wooden platform used in shipping. It just means a blanket or several blankets and other things laid on the floor for padding, which someone then sleeps upon.
We used to sleep on pallets whenever my cousins would come to visit when we all kids. I dunno. I guess we all wanted to sleep under one big blanket. Anyway, I'm not that old, so the term hasn't died out, at least not in the South.
priser24 2 years ago 2
Actually, Mississippi John Hurt was the first to record this song in the late 1920s, however in 1934 ( I believe) another guy got the copyright to it. As to what a "pallet: is, cttxlv & apataphysician got it exactly right. In the context of this song, a pallet is a bed made of blankets or quilts on the floor. In the South this was normally done for unexpected house guest or children.
wayneboone 2 years ago
Can anyone post a video of the Orignal Bogtrotters doing this song from their Biograph recording, theirs was first I believe?
k4jdp 2 years ago
Miss. John IS music
dogoodbiz 2 years ago 4
thank you very much I was just not sure of the sens of the lyrics you put a light !! :)
I lurn english slow but surely...hihih
toupettelong 2 years ago
euhmm i'm not sure that I understand the lyrics.I'm not english... somebody can can explain what he's talking about? In french or in english doesin matter. thanks a lot!
toupettelong 2 years ago
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The pallet is a wooden frame that supports goods for shipping. Pallets are a lot cheaper than mattresses. While passing through on his way to less hospitable environs, he is requesting a friend to make a bed with blankets on a pallet on the floor. As the song goes on, the implication is that it is more than a simple innocent plea for modest accommodation because he is then asking for secrecy suggesting that it is an adulterous encounter.
kcole1203 2 years ago
Am from Texas, way out in the country. Actually a pallet is a bed on the floor of old hand stiched quilts and blankets on the floor of any room in the house for late arriving family and friends. I slept on a pallet at my grandma's house every summer. Best best spot was off in a corner under a window to stay cool.
cttxlv 2 years ago 5
I'm from Africa and pallet is another word for aids.
Andrew301 2 years ago
Jam your hype troll.
Seraphmodel02 2 years ago
Jam that troll right up your ass.
Andrew301 2 years ago
@Andrew301 Obviously this lyric was written long before AIDS was with us. The pallet refered to a bed or sleeping place.
smock66 2 years ago 4
This is so wonderful thanks for sharing. I'm a huge fan of old country blues and delta blues and it's so awesome to learn exactly what some of the terms that are in the lyrics truly mean! Thanks for sharing...
cbluescat 2 years ago 2
He's asking for a "pallet on the floor." A pallet (in the American county tradition) is generally a blanket and pillow on the ground where someone sleeps. He is traveling around and is tired and looking for a place to rest.
apataphysician 2 years ago
I'm goin up the country, through the cold sleet n snow... ain't no telling how much further I may go...
younwhosarmy 2 years ago
cold like at the jail
donottawaguitar 2 years ago
qu'elle belle musique afroamericaine et qu'elle voix ¡¡
bigboy09able 2 years ago
merci pour ces belles photos
DrFABH 2 years ago
sweetest yet powerful voice ever.
Lukeblueslover 2 years ago
I, myself, like the bluegrass versions (J.E. Mainer and his Mountaineers) but if it wasn't for this great man, I wouldn't be able to listen to their version of the song.
Just ain't nothin like the blues
turkeycockmountain 2 years ago
One of my all time favorites a beautiful, mellow, soulful performer and an incredible Piedmont style picker.
garyguitar01 2 years ago 2
One of the most underrated and overlooked of all the bluesmen.
CraigKramer 2 years ago 37
@CraigKramer As usual,one of the best I"ve ever known..
davisonh1 1 year ago
@CraigKramer Hes never been underated, always considered one of the greats in acoustic fingerpicking blues...the purest and best kind of blues
divingbeetle1 1 year ago
@CraigKramer yeh i totally agree...his guitar playing was just otherworldly...i think because he didnt yell or groan the blues like some he was looked over...i think maybe bob dylan learned alot from this guy..what you think?
arkee71 1 year ago
@arkee71 i believe it`s because he played country... it's not strange that in the us the genre classification obeys to race as much as music isn't it?
oocelo 1 year ago
@oocelo to some extent i suppose thats true...especially in old days i would think...anymore we have black country artists..and white rappers...white blues legends...but they are more the exception than the rule...i play heavy blues rock and im white...lol
arkee71 1 year ago
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thinkin2 1 year ago
Hey Sofia,
in fact I enfoy different music at all cause I m very please hearing new songs in very different times , for example jazz as welll as blues in the former times , für example Duke Ellington is a very great favorit of mine......thx a lot for sharing John Hurt......very well done :-) thx for sharing so much.....very heartly greetings .....your dearly friend bennylein...hugs love and peace :-)5*and more...
bennylein2000 2 years ago
Wow...Fantastic musician.
He was amazing.
You have posted a jewel musical.
Thanks so much for sharing it.
5***** and more
sofiainred 2 years ago 2
Thanks so much my dearest Sofia,for this wonderful share.
amazing really amazing,i love it,everything with Guitars is great.
love it.
excellent one.
xosama2000il 2 years ago
Hi Sofia.. Yes yes yes.
geeim07 2 years ago
monkeysnail---i feel for t he travelers of life.i think i'm goin'there.when were dead we have no choice.
nomiclas 2 years ago
People tend to think of the innkeeper at Bethlehem as a bad guy who turned the Holy Family away. I think he's the patron saint of accommodating everybody, since he made improvised accommodations for them. After all, he didn't turn them away to make room for "more important" customers, or someone with no money -- they were just full up. So this song is for him and all the other people who show kindness to homeless strangers. I've been both in my time.
doctorpsycho1960 2 years ago
I was playing guitar in a park a little over a year ago, and a homeless traveler was resting under a tree near me with his rucksack and blanket laid out beside him. He asked if he could play something on my guitar, and when I handed it to him, this was the song he played and it was one of the most soulful things I'd ever heard. I don't think anyone who doesn't know what it's like to need a safe place to stay the night could ever play this song the right way.
monkeysnail 2 years ago 7
One of my favorite song from one of the greatest bluesmen
Kanzi1 2 years ago 2
I fell in love with this music over 20 years ago...25 years I guess and going through some hard times many years back I used to find such peace of heart and soul in this song....he was a gem.
boomac62 2 years ago 5
Well said sir.
SantaCruzOM 2 years ago
This is a grand song, I could listen to it over and over.
sengoku7 2 years ago 3
Another American icon. We are so fortunate to have Mississippi John Hurt as part of our heritage.
nickhershey 2 years ago 7
And also every non-American is fortunate to have the opportunity to listen to such fine music
roodbass 2 years ago 7
nice stuff .
12Radius 2 years ago
One of my favorite songs by Miss. John. He was the greatest talking blues man ever (and I'll call him a folk artist, too).
allanosterm 2 years ago
Such a soft gentle voice! An awesome guitar player too!
rosey4skin 2 years ago 2
I was so lucky to see him a bunch of times in a bunch of places. He made a room warmer with his personality. I hate to sound like an old fart, but those really were the days. Id love to see him at Grey Fox!! Ahhhhh.
saullouis 2 years ago
I like so much the way of playing the guitar.
The voice is so sweet.
I love it. Excellent perfomance.
5*****
I added to my favourites.
sofiainred 2 years ago 2
he's def. got soul; i gotta check out more songs by home.
aceshighsays 2 years ago
it does not get better than this
CARBONCINO25 2 years ago 6
this is the pure essence of the blues--in a word BRILLIANT!!!
geojones69 2 years ago 5
my teach is obsessed with this one, plays it all the time.
noraaron4321 2 years ago
i think if it wasnt 4 this man, and a few others, there would never have been any jimi hendrixs and stevie ray vaughans....brilliant
insaneshanex 3 years ago 5
MJH is great. Jimi and SRV can't be compared. MJH and jimi were feeling the music rather than sat in a bedroon copying like a sap.
turkeybeaksoup 2 years ago
Sorry bud. Wrong. Blues, since it's inception has been transmitted by watching and copying those who played the songs before you. Jimi and SVH both copied all the blues greats before them. Guess what? So did MJH, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson... They all sat down and did their damnedest to copy the way they saw other people play the songs.
What matters is what you do with that knowledge. If you got heart and soul, you got the blues. SVH had it, Jimi had it. Period.