Going2theshow.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Ticket onsale list for November 7, 2009 These tickets go on sale today on Ticketmaster and Livenation. 10:00 am B.B. King United Palace Theatre New York, NY Feb 12, [...]
Liberal Common Sense (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
If you like classic concerts I recommend checking out Wolfgang's Vault. I've been a member for quite some time (it's free) and right now I'm listening to an amazing concert from Byrds in 1970 that took place in San Fransisco, I have quite a few favorite songs, but one is "Positively 4th Street" which really fits right now with the local political drama I've been going through. From the concert...
Brooklyn Heights Blog (Free subscription) | 04/18/2009
From the BHB Inbox: Sing and celebrate on Sunday, April 19 at 2 p.m., when Tony Soll and his musical friends take another turn under the lights for the 22nd Anniversary Concert of Dinosaurs, Dolphins & Friends. An annual fundraiser for curricular enrichment at Brooklyn Friends School, the concert takes place at 375 Pearl Street, right around [...]
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Duncan: McConkey is a natural singer and songwriter...more than just a country singer, he moves easily in the genres of folk and blues.
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 12/17/2008
READING, Pa., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania police said they arrested two men suspected of stealing a brass angel statue, cutting it up and selling the pieces as scrap. John Hammond Jr. and Jamie Lee Custer, both 31, were charged by State Police at the Reading barracks with the Sept. 24 theft of the 1,200-pound Angel of the Roses that once stood atop a pedestal at the National Center for Padre Pio...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
John Hiatt, the singer-songwriter who's made a 35-year career in folk and blues music, plays Seattle's Moore Theater on Sunday, Nov. 16.
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
This album, originally released in 1980, perfectly captures both the searing electric and raw acoustic blues stylings of the legendary John Hammond. His close-to-the-bone vocals, masterful fingerstyle and slide guitar, and piercing harmonica keep the flame alive on this collection of blues roots classics by Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Robert Johnson. Hammond has been out there a long...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Southern Fried differed little from other early Hammond albums in its repertoire, consisting entirely of covers of blues and R&B songs. As usual, the Chicago sound came in for especially heavy tribute, with versions of songs by Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Chuck Berry, as well as a pass at "Mystery Train," though more vocal-oriented R&B got a nod with Chuck Willis' "It's Too...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/27/2007
Back in the early 1960s, when John Hammond Jr. began his performing career, the idea of a white guy singing blues seemed strange to a lot of people. Sure, Jack Teagarden and others had long been singing blues in a jazz context. And Elvis Presley had souped up...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/26/2007
Back in the early 1960s, when John Hammond Jr. began his performing career, the idea of a white guy singing blues seemed strange to a lot of people. Sure, Jack Teagarden and others had long been singing blues in a jazz context. And Elvis Presley had souped up...
Blogcritics.org (Free subscription) | 09/21/2007
You can buy this disc for its historical significance...but the best reason for getting a copy is that it's great music. In the past couple years of reviewing music for various blogs one of the nicest personal discoveries I've made is the amazing diversity to be found within specific genres. That's turned out to be especially true about the Blues; its such a highly individual mode of expression that...
Doctor Mooney's 115th Dream (Free subscription) | 08/06/2007
Last year a few of the doctors here at the asylum took our rock 'n roll stethoscopes to a performance by John Hammond Jr at the New York City Guitar Festival . A solid collection of low down sounds that found us turning the pages back on Hammond's early career. If you have never heard of John Hammond Jr he's the son of famed Columbia record man/producer John Hammond. The man who discovered, Bessie...
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