Just hours after receiving landmark status, the Mississippi John Hurt Museum in Avalon, Mississippi burned to the ground on February 21,2024.

John Hurt lived in this three-room shack for years .

It’s not my job to pass judgement. However, the coincidence between the museum being put on the National Landmark Registry and the incident seems uncanny.

Just hours after receiving landmark status, the Mississippi John Hurt Museum in Avalon, Mississippi burned to the ground on February 21,2024.

John Hurt lived in this three-room shack for years .

It’s not my job to pass judgement. However, the coincidence between the museum being put on the National Landmark Registry and the incident seems uncanny.

John Hurt’s music has brought innumerable hours of joy to my life. It has taught me a lot about simplicity, drive, and musical gentleness.

I know it has done the same for generations before me and will do so for many to come.

Adam Wright and I wrote this song a few days after the fire. We wanted to pay tribute to the great man, and to the place he lived in that is now lost forever.

We are all poorer for it.