John Hammond - Big City Blues (Bonus Tracks) (1964) [CD Rip]

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Artist: John Hammond
Title: Big City Blues
Year Of Release: 1964/2001
Label: Vanguard Records
Genre: Electric Blues, Chicago Blues
Quality: FLAC (tracks+cue+log+scans) | MP3 320 kbps
Total Time: 64:54
Total Size: 404 MB | 178 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:
1. I'm Ready (2:53)
2. My Starter Won't Start (2:52)
3. Barbecue Blues (3:22)
4. I'm A Man (3:19)
5. Barrelhouse Woman Blues (2:27)
6. Midnight Hour Blues (4:04)
7. Backdoor Man (4:21)
8. I Live The Life I Love (2:26)
9. No Money Down (3:53)
10. My Babe (2:09)
11. When You Got A Good Friend (4:44)
12. Baby, Won't You Tell Me (2:41)
13. They Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad) (4:08)
14. Statesboro Blues (3:26)
15. Keys To The Highway (3:13)
16. I Just Got Here (4:36)
17. I'm A Man (3:18)
18. Backdoor Man (4:18)
19. Baby, Won't You Tell Me (2:40)

John Hammond, Jr.'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 Jimmy Spruill on electric guitar, is first-rate. But Hammond's vocals are overly mannered and overwrought on Big City Blues, and although he would improve, these flaws would keep him from rising to the top rank of white bluesmen. (The 2002 Universal reissue contains seven alternate bonus tracks.) ~Richie Unterberger

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