Mississippi John Hurt

"I wasn't allowed to bother Mr. Carson's guitar. I would wait until he feel asleep at my house, then I would slip his guitar into my room and try to play. There I learned to play the guitar at the age of nine years old. After that, my mother bought me a second hand guitar at the price of $1.50! 1 can tell you there was no beautiful sound than my own guitar. I was playing for country dances at the same time working very hard on a farm near Avalon, Mississippi."

Sleepy John Estes

"Now, Mist' Clark is a good lawyer, he good as I ever seen/
He's the first man that prove that water run upstream/
Boys, you know I like Mist' Clark, yes, he really is my friend/
He say if I just stay out the grave, poor John, I see you won't go to the pen..."

Mailman Blues