Rainbow Quest, all of it
The complete run of Pete Seeger’s 1965–1966 television series Rainbow Quest is at YouTube.
The Mississippi John Hurt Museum, gone
NPR reports that the Mississippi John Hurt Museum in Avalon, Mississippi, was destroyed in a fire last week. There’s already a fundraiser to create a new memorial to Hurt.
Mississippi John Hurt Memorial
The ruins of the Valley Store, County Road 41, Carrollton, Mississippi, are preserved in Google Maps, with a marker for Mississippi John Hurt close by.
Separated at birth?
Mississippi John Hurt and Ray Collins (Lieutenant Tragg).
John Hurt and Skip James, 1964
Live on the radio.
Mississippi John Hurt: Sing Out!
A 1967 magazine cover.
Mississippi John Hurt, Discovery
“To listen to these recordings is to hear Hurt in two worlds at once: the one a world of private jokes and laughter and the occasional rooster, the other a world in which he was hardly at ease but, it seems, game.”
Mississippi John Hurt for Chevy
MJH’s music in a Chevrolet commercial.
Mississippi John Hurt
From Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest