You've Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley

Born in 1892 in the Mississippi delta country, John Hurt made one set of recordings in 1928.  After the record failed to do much, he returned to working as a sharecropper and playing at occasional parties.  In 1963 musicologists Dick Spottswood and Tom Hoskins tracked Hurt down and after listening to him play persuaded him to relocate east and over the last three years of his life he played concerts and made several TV appearances.  I don't know what show this clip is from but in the last frame you can see folksinger Pete Seeger.

You've Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley is an old time gospel song.

You've got to walk that lonesome valley
Well you gotta go by yourself
Well there ain't nobody else gonna go there for you
You gotta go there by yourself