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John Hammond jr.: Big City Blues

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Label: Vanguard Records
Released: 1964
Time:
 39:09
Category: Blues
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: ****...... (4/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.johnhammond.com
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Purchase date: 2002.04.13
Price in €: 14,99



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[1] I'm Ready (W.Dixon) - 2:48
[2] My Starter Won't Start (Trad.) - 2:48
[3] Barbecue Blues (Trad.) - 3:18
[4] I'm a Man (E.McDaniels) - 3:16
[5] Barrelhouse Woman Blues (E.Caraway/D.Williams) - 4:00
[6] Midnight Hour Blues (L.Carr) - 4:00
[7] Back Door Man (Ch.Berry) - 4:17
[8] I Live the Life I Love (W.Dixon) - 2:22
[9] No Money Down (Ch.Berry) - 3:50
[10] My Babe (W.Dixon) - 2:05
[11] When You Got a Good Friend (Trad.) - 4:40
[12] Baby, Won't You Tell Me (J.Hammond) - 2:38

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JOHN PAUL HAMMOND - Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals

JIMMY SPRUILL - Electric Guitar
BILLY BUTLER - Electric Guitar
JIMMY LEWIS - Fender Electric Bass
BOBBY DONALDSON - Drums

S.W. BENNETT - Liner Notes
JULES HALFANT - Design
BARRY FEINSTEIN - Photography

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1964 LP Vanguard VSD-79153
1995 CD Vanguard 79153
1995 LP Vanguard Vrs-9153
1995 CS Vanguard 79153



Hammond's second effort was one of the first electric white blues recordings, and one of the very first that could be said to be blues-rock. Covering a variety of Chess Records classics and electrifying some older tunes, the playing, featuring Hammond, Billy Butler, and James Spruill on electric guitar, is first-rate. But Hammond's vocals are overly mannered and overwrought, and although he would improve, these flaws would keep him from rising to the top rank of white bluesmen.

Richie Unterberger



Best of the white blues men

This and the other early Vanguard blues albums by Hammmond backed by a superb band including Charlie Musselwhaite & Levon Helm are simply the best renditions of the classic Chigago/Urban blues sound by a white practitioner. So authentic is Hammond's voice that I'd wager even an Afro-American would have trouble with ethnic ID! Some might say that his phrasing is a little exaggerated, but Hammond is so good that often his covers transcend the original, say this "Prejoodiced Whahte Bouy"! The backing band and the recordings are both absolutely top notch and all these albums REALLY COOK. Even if you're not a blues fan, Hammond could convert you! It's a wonder these albums did not catch on when first released - this was way back in '64 or so. After all, J.Lee Hooker's Dimples made the top 10 in UK(Where I hail from).The CD is Almost as good as the Vinyl as well, so my old LP's can take a break!

Chris Ringwood, June 15, 2000



John Hammond Tour De Force!

John Hammond delivers a Tour De Force! With such blues classics as "Back Door Man", "I'm A Man" and "No Money Down" - John Hammond delivers the powerfully sensual and poetic lyrics in an incredible Mick Jagger-ish style fusing with this HOT BAND and in doing so, setting a High Water Mark for all of us to look at and marvel upon. 35 YEARS LATER, this recording soars with POWER, GRACE and DETERMINATION - inducting it for this writer into 'The Greatest Gospel/Soul Recordings of All-Time' along side with Aretha Franklin's historic Muscle Shoals Sessions and Laura Nyro's 'Eli and the Thirteenth Confession'.

John Compton, December 31, 1999
 

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