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John Hammond - I Can Tell Audio CD

A fair review of the John Hammond "I Can Tell" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all John Hammond reviews here, or go back to the John Hammond tabs.

John Hammond Band: John Hammond
Title: I Can Tell
Rating:
Release Date: 1992-02-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Wish You Would 2: I'm in the Mood 3: I Can Tell 4: Spoonful 5: Coming Home 6: My Baby Is Sweeter 7: Brown Eyed Handsome Man 8: Smokestack Lightning 9: Five Long Years 10: You're So Fine 11: Going to New York 12: Forty Days and Forty Nights 13: Shake for Me 14: Cryin' for My Baby 15: I'm Leaving You 16: You'll Be Mine

Owning this album has been a quest for 38 years

It was lost in a burglary. A friend had this album, "I can tell" in 1971 and 1972 and we loved it.
I could not find a replacement.

In 1976 my brother in law was independently searching for it.
He asked John Hammond after a concert where he could buy one.
Hammond said, "I don't have any. "

Eventually we found a disc jockey with an album that would make us a cassette recording.
But it was mono, scratchy, low fidelity, and had wow and flutter.

I saw Hammond perform in the late 70s.
He started with the song, "My daddy was a jockey and he taught me to ride".
He seemed passionately involved in the performance and never faded.


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His best
I've had this album since the late 60's and it is still one of my favorites out of 4,000 albums. Not only John Hammond's best,but Robbie Robertson's
best guitar work.


Hammond's So Fine!
I recently saw him perform at The Steam Plant in Salida, Colorado. I first heard John Hammond as a senior in high school in 1967. We're both older and he still is a GREAT bluesman! What a performance. This album/CD is tremendous. Give his new stuff a try, you won't be disappointed. The best blues out there!!.


John Hammond: Master Bluesman regardless of race!
FYI, he happens to have some black and so-called "mulatto" genealogy via his early American van Salee ancestry. John Hammond happens to be "white", but that has nothing to do either positively or negatively, with his talent. Jackie Kennedy, and Humphrey Bogart were also van Salee descendants, and I don't recall either of them playing killer slide guitar, harmonica, or singing the blues :)

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I can tell John Hammond
John Hammond does 2 distinctly different types of blues,acoustic and electric,this cd along with others like "Big city blues" on the vanguard label are good electric blues cds. If you're not familiar with John Hammond,this would be an excellent place to start. If you happened to get an acoustic cd and didn't like it don't give up on John Hammond until you hear his electric blues.


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