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Mississippi John Hurt: Live/John Lee Hooker: Live at Newport (both Vanguard)

Peter Stone Brown, Gadfly, 2002

EARLY IN 1963, two blues collectors, Tom Hoskins and Richard Spottswood, pulled into a town in Mississippi that wasn't on the map, called Avalon.

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