Blues greats re-emerge from the pages of history

1963/1964: Number 23 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of world and folk musicIn early 1963, an east coast guitar player and fan of the blues called Tom Hoskins found himself poring over an old road atlas, looking for a place called Avalon somewhere in Mississippi. Hoskins was on the trail of a figure called Mississippi John Hurt, known to him through two tracks on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music and a bootleg tape that another avid blues collector, Dick Spottswood...

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