Editing Mississippi John Hurt (section)

==Tributes==
[[File:50 Mississippi John Hurt Museum, Avalon, MS.jpg|thumb|Mississippi John Hurt Museum, in Avalon, Mississippi]]

There was a memorial and museum dedicated to Hurt in Avalon, Mississippi, parallel to Rural Route 2, the rural road he grew up on. On February 20, 2024, it was destroyed in a fire the day after being made a National Landmark.  Arson is not suspected.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dankins |first1=Pam |title='Fully engulfed in flames': Fire destroys Mississippi John Hurt Museum |url=https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2024/02/21/mississippi-john-hurt-museum-burns-down-in-carroll-county-mississippi/72689068007/ |access-date=21 February 2024 |agency=Mississippi Clarion Ledger}}</ref>

The singer-songwriter [[Tom Paxton]], who met Hurt and played on the same bill with him at the [[The Gaslight Cafe|Gaslight]] in [[Greenwich Village]] around 1963, wrote and recorded a song about him in 1977, "Did You Hear John Hurt?".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-02-18 |title=Mississippi John Hurt |url=https://www.tompaxton.com/mississippi-john-hurt/ |access-date=2022-06-16 |website=Tom Paxton |language=en-US}}</ref>

The first track of [[John Fahey (musician)|John Fahey]]'s 1968 solo acoustic guitar album ''[[Requia]]'' is "Requiem for John Hurt". Fahey's posthumous live album, ''[[The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick]]'', also features a version of the piece, entitled "Requiem for Mississippi John Hurt".

[[Norman Greenbaum]]'s eclectic minor hit, "Gondoliers, Shakespeares, Overseers, Playboys And Bums" refers to Mississippi John Hurt singing the blues.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Greenbaum |first1=Norman |last2=Dr. West's Medicine Show And Junk Band |date=1969 |title=Norman Greenbaum With Dr. West's Medicine Show And Junk Band |url=http://archive.org/details/lp_norman-greenbaum-with-dr-wests-medicine-sh_norman-greenbaum-dr-wests-medicine-show-an |access-date=2021-08-16}}</ref>

The British folk and blues artist [[Wizz Jones]] recorded a tribute song, "Mississippi John", for his 1977 album ''[[Magical Flight]]''.

The Delta blues artist [[Rory Block]] recorded the album ''Avalon: A Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt'', released in 2013 as part of her "Mentor Series".<ref name="block">{{cite web|last=Block|first=Rory|title=Avalon: A Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt|url=http://www.stonyplainrecords.com/Web/artist.asp?id=566#1369|publisher=Stony Plain Records|date=June 4, 2013|access-date=December 11, 2013}}</ref>

The New England singer-songwriter Bill Morrissey released the Grammy-nominated album ''Songs of Mississippi John Hurt'' in 1999.

In 2017, Hurt's life story was told in the documentary series ''[[American Epic (documentary)|American Epic]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/arena-american-epic|title=BBC – Arena: American Epic – Media Centre|website=bbc.co.uk|access-date=February 27, 2018}}</ref> The film featured footage of Hurt performing and being interviewed,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.analogplanet.com/content/lovers-recorded-music-and-its-history-american-epic-must-see-pbs-tv|title=For Lovers of Recorded Music and its History, "American Epic" Is Must See PBS TV|date=May 10, 2017|work=Analog Planet|access-date=February 27, 2018}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/07/18/greil-marcus-real-life-rock-top-10-the-epic-tradition/|title=Greil Marcus' Real Life Rock Top 10: The Epic Tradition|access-date=February 27, 2018}}</ref> and improved restorations of his 1920s recordings.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.stereophile.com/content/american-epic|title=American Epic|date=June 12, 2017|work=Stereophile|access-date=February 27, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-american-epic-20170513-story.html|title='American Epic' explores how a business crisis ignited a musical revolution|last=Lewis|first=Randy|website=Los Angeles Times|date=May 14, 2017 |access-date=February 27, 2018}}</ref> Director [[Bernard MacMahon (filmmaker)|Bernard MacMahon]] stated that Hurt "was the inspiration for ''American Epic''".<ref name=":1" /> Hurt's life was profiled in the accompanying book, ''[[American Epic: The First Time America Heard Itself]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/American-Epic/Bernard-MacMahon/9781501135606|title=American Epic|date=May 2, 2017|isbn=9781501135606|language=en|last1=MacMahon|first1=Bernard|last2=McGourty|first2=Allison|last3=Wald|first3=Elijah|publisher=Simon and Schuster }}</ref>

In 2023, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' ranked Hurt at number 159 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=1 January 2023|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-singers-all-time-1234642307/mississippi-john-hurt-1234642918/|access-date=21 March 2023}}</ref>