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It should’ve happened… multiple hits, a massive career, world recognition and all the rest.
Daniel Augusta Hunt
SUN RECORD BLUES
A. Hunt got to cut but one double-cut blues ditty;
that’s one, in a lifetime…for Sam Phillips’ Sun
Records, #183. Daniel Augusta Hunt was born
in Mumford, Alabama, May 23, 1929. D.A. had
been workin’ at Union Foundry Pipe, in Anniston,
Alabama. Give a listen: “Greyhound Blues” b/w
(that’s backed with) “Lonesome Ol Jail” were moaning, morose man and guitar. His voice was clear and
there was promise. In 1958, documentations indicate that D.A. was arrested for a theft in Memphis. Four
years later his bod was without life; in Phoenix, AZ., May 1962, age 31.