Candyman Blues - Jimmy Sticks - Mississippi John Hurt - Blues - Cover

Here's Jimmy Sticks from Glasgow Scotland a longtime resident of London England performing Candyman Blues by Mississippi John Hurt

Jimmy turned out to be Truly "A Quality Sit Down Guitarist" as he described himself on the phone to me back in 1996 shortly before his first video recording session with me for my archive.Jimmy A Polio victim walked with the aid of 2 sticks I haven't had any communication with him since about 1997 so if Jimmy or anyone who knows this brilliantly gifted musician can update me on him I would appreciate it,and these notes will be updated accordingly.

John Smith Hurt, better known as Mississippi John Hurt (July 3, 1893[1][2] or March 8, 1892[3] — November 2, 1966) was an American country blues singer and guitarist.[4]

Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt taught himself how to play the guitar around age nine. Singing to a melodious finger-picked accompaniment,[5] he began to play local dances and parties while working as a sharecropper. He first recorded for Okeh Records in 1928, but these recordings were commercial failures. Hurt then drifted out of the recording scene and continued to work as a farmer. Tom Hoskins, a blues enthusiast, located Hurt in 1963 and convinced him to relocate to Washington, D.C. where he was recorded by the Library of Congress in 1964. This helped further the American folk music revival, which had led to the rediscovery of many other bluesmen of Hurt's era. Hurt entered the university and coffeehouse concert circuit with other Delta blues musicians brought out of retirement. As well as playing concerts, he recorded several albums for Vanguard Records.

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