John Hammond Instructional for country style Blues Guitar: later years Page Three
One time that I saw John in Boston, he showed up for his usual solo gig but the people that owned this club in Cambridge called the Underground were apparently all top notch musicians themselves so made John do an electric set of his old very hip blues material and it was awesome. John didn't blink an eye.
You could tell he wasn't expecting to play electric but you could have fooled me into thinking that this was his back up band and they had a really accomplished keyboard player of conservatory level whom even John complimented. Sorry, but never learned who they were. Great gig!
My favorite John Hammond electric blues discs to buy: I Can Tell, Source Point, Southern Fried, Triumvirate. They are all more than worthy, even his others. 'You be fattening up frogs for snakes and telling all your friends how to correct all your mistakes'.
John Hammond later years Menu
- Ch 1: John's Background
- Ch 2: Right hand Basics
- Ch 3: "Just your fool: broken down
- Ch 4: E chord shapes
- Ch 5: early influences
- Ch 6: "Just your fool" right hand
- Ch 7: E rhythm patterns and licks
- Ch 8: Phonograph Blues by Robert Johnson Performance
- Ch 9: Above Broken down
- Ch 10: Delta Style
- Ch 11: "Untrue Blues"
- Ch 12: Above Broken down
- Ch 13: Above Broken down even more
- Ch 14: Accompanying while playing harp
- Ch 15: "Honest I do"
- Ch 16: Above Broken down
- Ch 17: Robert Geddes Tune in Bm
- Ch 18: Above Broken down
- Ch 19: Above Broken down even more
- Ch 20: John's string gauges and bending strings
- Ch 21: "Come to find out"
- Ch 22: Above Broken down
- Ch 23: Harp part
- Ch 24: John's guitars
- CH 25: Bottleneck open A tuning
- Ch 26: Michael Bloomfield anecdote
- Ch 27: "Drop Down Mama"
- Ch 28: Above Broken down
- Ch 29: Robert Johnson style
- Ch 30: Key of E Johnson techniques
- Ch 31: "Hell Hound on my trail"
- Ch 32: Above Broken down
- Ch 33: Back to open A: "Come on in my kitchen"
- Ch 34: Terraplane Blues
- Ch 35: "Jitterbug Swing"
- Ch 36: "Slick Crown Vic"
- Ch 37: overview and wool gathering
- Ch 38: Closing song and credits
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