Coming up through the Greenwich Village folk scene, John Hammond collected the work of some of the greatest blues artists of all time. On his latest album, that music is presented as bare-bones and ...

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"Here's one of the most surreal songs I've ever sung," John Hammond said at the Great American Music Hall on Wednesday. The veteran blues scholar might well have repeated the line before almost every ...

“John’s sound is so compelling, complete, symmetrical and soulful with just his voice, guitar and harmonica, it is at first impossible to imagine improving it… He’s a great force of nature. John ...

Solo acoustic blues, when properly done, is an intimate, almost primitive experience. John Hammond knows how it’s done. Playing Saturday night at the Tune Inn in New Haven, Hammond treated a small ...