Not a snappy title for a great record. As Doc Watson put it in one of his songs: Did you love John Hurt? Put me in the group voting yes. Hurt always had a beautiful sound from his guitar (people like to call it gentle) to go with his sweet voice, and his lyrics had plenty of sex and violence. What’s not to like. He did plenty of spirituals, too. His I Shall Not Be Moved is outstanding. My only complaint about the material he left us is that he wasn’t able to record much when he was young.
This record’s version of Oh Mary Don’t You Weep has one of my favorite phrases from a spiritual—Moses stood on the Red Sea shore/smote the water with a 2 X 4. That’s not how Charlton Heston did it in the movie. Wikipedia says the song predates the U.S. Civil War and that 2 X 4s became a thing about 1915, so some clever soul worked the joke into an old song.
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