Bill Morrissey, Songs of Mississippi John Hurt - 45m 53s

Tracks & Durations

1. If You Don't Want Me	3:26
2. Avalon Blues	4:49
3. Shake that Thing	2:39
4. Louis Collins	3:27
5. First Shot Missed Him	1:54
6. Big Leg Blues	2:38
7. Hey, Honey, Right Away	2:41
8. Joe Turner Blues	2:38
9. I'm Satisfied	2:35
10. Beulah Land	3:50
11. Funky Butt	1:52
12. Coffee Blues	3:17
13. Monday Morning Blues	4:38
14. Good Morning, Miss Carrie	2:26
15. Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight	2:58

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Review

Though he'd never recorded a John Hurt song before, the music of the Avalon, Mississippi, master has run through Bill Morrissey. The hop-skip-jump fingerstyle patterns and the wry somewhere-between-comedy-and-pathos tone of Morrissey's vignettes boast the effortless air of the blues and partly explain why his own work stands apart from that of less-distinctive post-Dylan singer-songwriters. This tribute to the Delta bluesman (who died in 1966 after making a late-in-life comeback) is surprising for the spacious, eclectic acoustic arrangements. Harmonica and melodic bass dominate the songs. Horns, piano, and vocal harmonies blend with Morrissey's charming, scuffed-up delivery. The song selection surprises, too. Rather than a parade of greatest hits, the album focuses on Hurt at his most playful. But the lonely lyricism of "Avalon Blues" and the gospel elegy "Louis Collins" insure that the darker mysteries of the blues are never far away. --Roy Kasten

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