Last Sessions

by Mississippi John Hurt

Last Sessions cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1972
  • Label: Vanguard
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 46:23
  • Community rating: 3.63/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded in a Manhattan hotel room shortly before his death in 1966, this posthumous release is a profoundly intimate document of the acoustic blues legend. Stripped of all studio artifice, the crystal-clear recording captures his gently hypnotic fingerpicking style and warmly weathered vocals in absolute isolation. It serves as a beautiful, final testament to a central figure of the American folk revival.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic

Tracklist

  1. Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home (2:14)
  2. Boys, You're Welcome (3:01)
  3. Joe Turner Blues (3:29)
  4. First Shot Missed Him (1:44)
  5. Farther Along (3:44)
  6. Funky Butt (1:58)
  7. Spider, Spider (1:32)
  8. Waiting For You (3:36)
  9. Shortnin' Bread (2:15)
  10. Trouble, I've Had It All My Days (3:04)
  11. Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me (3:21)
  12. Good Morning, Carrie (1:57)
  13. Nobody Cares For Me (3:42)
  14. All Night Long (2:44)
  15. Hey, Honey, Right Away (2:01)
  16. You've Got To Die (3:28)
  17. Goodnight Irene (2:25)

Credits

  • The Hellacopters - primary artist, written-by
  • Kenny Hellacopter - bass
  • Robert Hellacopter - drums
  • Chuck Pounder - guitar
  • Boba Fett - piano
  • Nicke Hellacopter - vocals, guitar

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