Today!

by Mississippi John Hurt

Today! cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1966
  • Label: Vanguard
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 42:40
  • Community rating: 4.33/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Documenting his resurgence during the 1960s folk revival, this studio recording captures Mississippi John Hurt's gentle vocal delivery and syncopated Piedmont fingerpicking style. The sparse, unadorned production highlights his intricate alternating bass patterns and melodic acoustic phrasing.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Pay Day (4:18)
  2. I'm Satisfied (2:50)
  3. Candy Man (2:53)
  4. Make Me A Pallet On The Floor (4:29)
  5. Talking Casey (5:04)
  6. Corinna, Corinna (1:51)
  7. Coffee Blues (3:43)
  8. Louis Collins (4:04)
  9. Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight (3:03)
  10. If You Don't Want Me Baby (3:18)
  11. Spike Driver's Blues (3:24)
  12. Beulah Land (3:43)

Credits

  • Mississippi John Hurt - primary artist, written-by
  • Jules Halfant - design
  • Ed Freeman - photography by
  • Nat Hentoff - sleeve notes
  • Patrick Sky - supervised by [production]

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