Black History // Mississippi John Hurt John didn’t know it, but his recordings of "Frankie" and "Spike Driver Blues" had been added to compilation series The Anthology of American Folk Music, released in 1952, which generated considerable interest in locating him, though most assumed he'd died years ago. When copy of "Avalon Blues" was discovered in 1963, musicologist Dick Spottswood located Avalon on an atlas, and he sent Tom Hoskins there. When Hoskins arrived in Avalon, the first person he as