Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 45:03
Size: 103.1 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 1964/2005
Art: Front
[3:20] 1. Two Trains Running
[3:36] 2. 32-20 Blues
[2:32] 3. Maybellene
[4:03] 4. Louise, Louise Blues
[2:23] 5. This Train
[3:02] 6. East St. Louis Blues
[2:50] 7. Going Back To Florida
[3:13] 8. Mean Old Frisco
[4:09] 9. I Got A Letter This Morning
[3:34] 10. Alabama Woman Blues
[3:02] 11. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
[4:00] 12. Cross Road Blues
[5:10] 13. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
The best early works of this folk-blues artist. Acoustic and essential.
With a career that spans over three decades, John Hammond is one of handful of white blues musicians who was on the scene at the beginning of the first blues renaissance of the mid-'60s. That revival, brought on by renewed interest in folk music around the U.S., brought about career boosts for many of the great classic blues players, including Mississippi John Hurt, Rev. Gary Davis, and Skip James. Some critics have described Hammond as a white Robert Johnson, and Hammond does justice to classic blues by combining powerful guitar and harmonica playing with expressive vocals and a dignified stage presence. Within the first decade of his career as a performer, Hammond began crafting a niche for himself that is completely his own: the solo guitar man, harmonica slung in a rack around his neck, reinterpreting classic blues songs from the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. ~From the bio by Richard Skelly
John Hammond
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