← Back to the jukebox

Spike Driver Blues (1928)Mississippi John Hurt

Where to listen

Amazon MP3 iTunes

Song · 1928 · Blues

Spike Driver Blues (1928)

Mississippi John Hurt

1928

★ 4.3 editorial score

Okeh sent an Avalon sharecropper home after modest sales, leaving behind a fingerpicked John Henry that refuses the hammer.

From the album

in the Albums canon

Genre

Subject

John Henry Work Survival

More songs

Other recordings that share an artist, a genre, or a subject with this one.

A Hard Day's Night

1964

Another song aboutSubject·Work

Rocket Man

1972

Another song aboutSubject·Work

Strange Fruit

1939

Another song ofGenre·Blues

West End Blues

Louis Armstrong

1928

Another song ofGenre·Blues

Other media

Works in other forms that share a subject with this one.

Other media onSubject·Survival

Quote · 1859

“The shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.”

Charles Darwin

Book · 2006

Cormac McCarthy

Film · 1979

Ridley Scott