Last Sessions is an album by Mississippi John Hurt.Grossman, Stefan. Anthology of Country Blues Guitar (2007), p. 87. ISBN 0739043285. Last Sessions (Vanguard 79327).Komara, Edward; Lee, Peter. The Blues Encyclopedia (2004), p. 484. ISBN 1135958327. "Hurt, John Smith Mississippi John Influence during his lifetime Hurt's influence was primarily local, a situation that did ... April 15, 1965" It was recorded at a Manhattan hotel in February and July 1966 shortly before Hurt's death that year, and released in 1972 by Vanguard Records.
Critical reception
Reviewing Last Sessions in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote:
The record was later regarded by Christgau as "one of those nearness-of-death albums", along with Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind (1997), Warren Zevon's The Wind (2003), Neil Young's Prairie Wind (2005), and Johnny Cash's American VI: Ain't No Grave (2010). In The New Rolling Stone Record Guide (1983), Dave Marsh reviewed Last Sessions within the context of Hurt's late-period music; while he had "lost some technical ability due to age" and "wheezes and rattles, clearly on his last legs", the album "does not surrender his marvelous spirit".
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