Rediscovered (Mississippi John Hurt album)
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| Rediscovered | ||||
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| Released | August 11, 1998 | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Length | 74:53 | |||
| Label | Vanguard | |||
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Rediscovered is a posthumous 1998 Mississippi John Hurt compilation album released on Vanguard Records. It contains 23 songs that had previously been released on four of Hurt's earlier Vanguard albums: Today!, The Immortal Mississippi John Hurt, Last Sessions, and The Best of Mississippi John Hurt. The album's liner notes were written by Ed Ward.[1]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Columbia Journal | (highly favorable)[3] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
| No Depression | (highly favorable)[5] |
| The Village Voice | A+[6] |
| The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings | [7] |
AllMusic's Matt Fink gave Rediscovered 4 out of 5 stars, writing that "These recordings are some of the last Hurt would make before his death, and are fine evidence of just how good he still was up until his last days."[2]