Not the typical sound that we cover here at Pop Occulture, but over the years I’ve held tight to one simple philosophy. If you don’t like Mississippi John Hurt, I don’t like you.
Done in a style recommencement of musicians like early Bob Dylan or William Elliot Whitmore, Niel Brooks’s take on the classic Mississippi John Hurt song “The Angels Laid Him Away/Lous Collins” is organic and honest in a way that gives the song an air of authenticity that is refreshing. Even if the song is one of the world’s most famous murder ballads.
