John Hammond - So Many Roads (1993) [FLAC]
Category Rock/Pop Albums, Blues CDs, Contemporary Blues
Label Vanguard
Orig Year 1965
All Time Sales Rank 63146
Discs 1
Release Date Mar 20, 1993
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Recording Time 37 minutes
Personnel Levon Helm - drums, background vocals
Robbie Robertson - guitar, background vocals
Garth Hudson - organ, background vocals
Charlie Musselwhite - harmonica, background vocals
John Hammond - vocals, guitar
Michael Bloomfield - guitar, piano, background vocals
Jimmy Lewis - drums
Eric Hudson - organ
Jimmy Spruill - guitar
.: Tracklist :
So Many Roads is Hammond's most notable mid-'60s Vanguard album, due not so much to Hammond's own singing and playing (though he's up to the task) as the yet-to-be-famous backing musicians. Three future members of the Band -- Robbie Robertson, Garth Hudson, and Levon Helm -- are among the supporting cast, along with Charlie Musselwhite on harmonica, and Mike Bloomfield also contributes. It's one of the first fully realized blues-rock albums, although it's not in the same league as the best efforts of the era by the likes of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band or John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. In part that's because the repertoire is so heavy on familiar Chicago blues classics by the likes of Willie Dixon, Bo Diddley, and Muddy Waters; in part that's because the interpretations are so reverent and close to the originals in arrangement; and in part it's also because Hammond's blues vocals were only okay. Revisionist critics thus tend to downgrade the record a notch. But in the context of its time -- when songs like "Down in the Bottom," "Long Distance Call," "Big Boss Man," and "You Can't Judge a Book By the Cover" were not as well known as they would become -- it was a punchy, well-done set of electric blues with a rock touch. ~ Richie Unterberger
Includes original release liner notes by Barry Kittleson.
Personnel: John Hammond, Jr. (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Michael Bloomfield (guitar, piano, background vocals); Robbie Robertson (guitar, background vocals); Jimmy Spruill (guitar); Charlie Musselwhite (harmonica, background vocals); Garth Hudson (organ, background vocals); Eric Hudson (organ); Levon Helm (drums, background vocals); Jimmy Lewis (drums).
Liner Note Author: Barry Kittleson.
Photographer: Barry Feinstein.
Personnel includes: John Hammond (vocals, guitar); Robbie Robertson (guitar); Charlie Musselwhite (harmonica); Michael Bloomfield (piano); Garth Hudson (Hammond organ); Jimmy Lewis (bass); Levon Helm (drums).
Tracks:
1. Down in the Bottom
2. Long Distance Call
3. Who Do You Love?
4. I Want You to Love Me
5. Judgment Day
6. So Many Roads, So Many Trains
7. Rambling Blues
8. O Yea!
9. You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover
10. Gambling Blues
11. Baby Please Don't Go
12. Big Boss Man
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