John Hammond
b. John Paul Hammond III, 13 November 1942. He is the son of jazz and rock producer John Hammond Jnr. The younger Hammond took up blues guitar and harmonica while at college and joined the New York coffee-house scene in 1962. In the same year he recorded the first of five albums for Vanguard Records. On 1965's So Many Roads Hammond's backing band included members of the Hawks, the unit who later became the Band. Even after the folk/blues boom had subsided, Hammond continued with his Chicago-blues based music, playing at small clubs and campuses. He continued to record frequently, for Atlantic Records (1968-70), where Robbie Robertson (the Band), Bill Wyman (the Rolling Stones), Eddie Hinton, Barry Beckett and Duane Allman were among the accompanists, and Columbia Records (1971-73), where he took part in a so-called "supersession' in 1973 with Dr. John and Mike Bloomfield. Hammond's work was also heard on the soundtrack of the movie Little Big Man in 1970. He returned to the Vanguard label for a brief spell in the late 70s. Among his albums during this period was 1979"s excellent Hot Tracks, recorded with the help of the Nighthawks.
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Albums
- (2007) Push Comes To Shove
- (2007) Vanguard Visionaries
- (2006) Solo
- (2006) So Many Roads
- (2006) Best Of The Vanguard Years
- (2006) Rhino Hi-Five: John Hammond
- (2005) I Can Tell
- (2005) Southern Fried
- (2003) Ready For Love
- (2003) At The Crossroads (The Blues Of Robert Johnson)
- (2001) Wicked Grin
- (1998) Long As I Have You
- (1996) Nobody But You
- (1996) Found True Love
- (1994) Trouble No More
- (1992) Got Love If You Want It
Top Tracks
- 32-20 Blues
- Hellhound Blues (Hellhound On My Trail)
- Shake For Me
- Seventh Son
- Cross Road Blues
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