Sam Amidon performs Mississippi John Hurt's "Spike Driver Blues" on 'Fatal Flower Garden EP (A Tribute to Harry Smith).' Pre-order the vinyl 7" to download the song now: [ Ссылка ]

Illustrations by Sam Amidon
Video by Robert Edridge-Waks

“Fatal Flower Garden is my tribute to the elusive spirit of Harry Smith and to his wondrous Anthology of American Folk Music. Harry Smith believed in the secret connections and mysteries that existed in culture ... whether it was the feeling of Thelonious Monk’s rhythmic phrasing; the patterns in string games and Ukrainian egg painting designs; the wild fiddle tunes; or the epic folk ballads. He understood American Folk Music to be a wildly heterogeneous category that included multiple cultural, racial, and linguistic elements.”

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