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Mississippi John Hurt

from Turn Up For The Books by Robbie McIntosh

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about

Mississippi John Hurt is one of my heroes and the picking pattern that the song starts with is one of my favourite finger-picking patterns, which is totally unique to Mississippi John Hurt.
So the song is just a tribute to Mississippi John Hurt, as if he's playing at the local pub and we ought to go and see him. Stylistically, it's a bit of a mish-mash because he just played on his own with a guitar and I've added this sort of trad jazz accompaniment to the whole song.

I did all the recording myself. Originally I cut the song with just guitar and voice but I thought that was a bit boring, so I turned it into this trad jazz thing, with guitars and ukelele, and I tried to make the bass guitar sound as much like a tuba as I could. If I could have played the bass line on the tuba I would have done but I'm not good enough on the tuba yet.
But because the song grew out of that finger-picking style of Mississippi John Hurt, I've decided to credit him for half of the song. I've got some lovely footage of Mississippi John Hurt with Pete Seeger. A lot of the old folkies loved him because he was a real gentle old soul. A man I would love to have met.

lyrics

Put on your new hat
Put on your new spats
We're gonna see a gent
He really is a gent
Lift up your hat cos
Mississippi John Hurt's in town

He came all the way from Avalon
Left a pretty girl in Avalon
He ain't gonna be here long
So we really oughta get along
Lift up your hat cos
Mississippi John Hurt's in town

Well you know he's gonna pick some
With his fingers and his thumb
With a voice that is cool and clear
Sweetest voice that you'll ever hear
Lift up your hats boys cos
Mississippi John Hurt's in town

Lift Up Your Hat

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from Turn Up For The Books, released September 7, 2013
RM: Drums, Bass, Guitars, Vocals, Ukelele, Percussion.

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Robbie McIntosh Weymouth, UK

Robbie McIntosh is well known as a sideman/session player (Paul McCartney, The Pretenders, Talk Talk, Norah Jones, Tears For Fears, to name but a few)
As a solo performer and singer, he has released 8 albums:
Seaworld,
Fortuneswell,
Turn Up For The Books,
Widescreen, Emotional Bends
3 albums of instrumentals:
Unsung, Hush Hour and Christmas Carols.
Also the Let’s Put It All Together EP.
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