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the site "MJH and the Delta Blues" hosted by Dennis H. Tesreau offers complete reference on MJH

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photo taken from the "Blueflame Cafe" site¡@

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"Mississippi John Hurt." This classic blues songster is included in Crumb's Hereos of the Blues cards, a boxed collector card set featuring 36 loving portraits of the men and women who gave birth to the Blues.

--from the "Kitchen Sink" site
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photo taken from the "Mudcat" site

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NEARER MY GOD TO THEE: MR. MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT by sculptor John Leon
Bronze; Height 18 inches
  
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"John Hurt was discovered, perhaps plucking away on the front stoop of the Valley Store in Carrol County, by Tommy Rockwell for the Okeh label who sent him to Memphis to Record in 1928."
---quoted photos and words are from "Mudcat" website

[photos from left to right: the house MJH grew in, the Valley Store, inside the Valley Store]