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Spike Driver Blues (1928)Mississippi John Hurt
Blues

Spike Driver Blues (1928)

Mississippi John Hurt
1928 · From 1928 Sessions

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

★ 4.3