As a rule, I’ll believe anything an employee of Amoeba Music tells me, music related or otherwise. So when several Amoebites listed “anything from Mississippi Records” atop their “music we like” lists, I went running, headphones in hand.

Turns out Mississippi Records was started in 2003 by two guys, Warren Hill and Eric Isaacson, who share a passion for digging up rare 78′s and re-releasing them on vinyl for a price most folks can afford, 10 bucks.

Today, their output consists of over 40 vinyl pressings; with titles ranging from a 1968 concept album about the life of Malcom X, to the very first recordings of original blues man, Skip James, originally from 1928.

“A Little Bit of Hurt” is 12th in the label’s cassette-only compilation series, and it’s reel-to-real sin-soaked confessions, unanswered prayers and lonesome cries for forgiveness.

Side B (is a good place to start)

Side A (features rare recordings of Sam Cooke & Marvin Gaye)