John P Hammond Biography
John P Hammond is an American singer, guitarist, and musician, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States as John Paul Hammond, the son of the famous record producer John H. Hammond, he is sometimes referred to as John Hammond Jr.
John P Hammond Age
John Paul Hammond was born on November 13, 1942, in Grand Rapids, Michigan United States. He is 76 years old as of 2018.
John P Hammond Family
Hammond was born in and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan United States to the late John H. Hammond who was a record producer and talent scout and the late Jemison McBride who was an actress. He has a brother, Jason, and a stepsister, (Esme) Rosita Sarnoff, the daughter of his father’s second wife, Esme O’Brien Sarnoff.
John P Hammond Wife
on October 21, 1967, Hammond married his first wife, Dana McDevitt, a daughter of John Burke McDevitt, the two later divorced. Later In 1991, Hammond married his second wife, Marla.
John P Hammond Height
American singer, guitarist, Hammond stands at a height of 5′ 7″ (1.7 m).
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John P Hammond Career
Hammond always plays acoustically, choosing National Reso-Phonic Guitars, and sings in a barrelhouse style. Since 1962, when he made his debut on Vanguard Records, he has made thirty-four albums. In the 1990s he started recording on the Point Blank Records label. His 1963 debut album, “John Hammond” was one of the first blues albums by a white artist. Hammond has earned one Grammy Award and been nominated for four others. He also provided the soundtrack for the 1970 film Little Big Man, starring Dustin Hoffman.
in the 1960s, when Hammond played the Gaslight Cafe in New York City. To his regret, they never recorded together. It has been suggested that Hammond deserves some credit for helping boost The Band to wider recognition. He recorded with several members of The Band in 1965 and recommended them to Bob Dylan, with whom they undertook a famed and tumultuous world tour. Hammond hosted the 1991 UK television documentary The Search for Robert Johnson, detailing the life of the legendary Delta bluesman Robert Johnson. In 2001, he released Wicked Grin, an album consisting entirely of Waits compositions, with one exception, the traditional spiritual, “I Know I’ve Been Changed”. Waits played guitar and sang backing vocals on the album and were also its producer. In 2003, he released Ready for Love, produced by David Hidalgo of Los Lobos. It included a Mick Jagger and Keith Richards song, “The Spider and the Fly”. His 2009 album, entitled Rough & Tough, was a 2010 nominee for the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. In 2011, Hammond was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame of the Blues Foundation.
John P Hammond Net Worth
According to various sources, John P. Hammond’s net worth has grown significantly in 2019. However, the numbers vary depending on the source. As for now, we don’t have an estimated net worth for him.
John P Hammond Quotes
- I own an island off the coast of Costa Rica.
- I bring the scientists, you bring the rock star.
- Dennis. Our lives are in your hands and you have butterfingers?
- I understand how to read a schematic!
- I don’t believe. I don’t believe it! You’re [Grant and Ellie] meant to come down here and defend me against these characters [Malcolm and Gennaro], and the only one I’ve got on my side is the bloodsucking lawyer!
John P Hammond Tour
May 9 • Berkeley, CA
Jun 8 • Roslyn, NY
Jun 20 • Old Saybrook, CT
John P Hammond Wicked Grin
Wicked Grin is the twenty-eighth studio album from blues singer John P. Hammond. The album was released in March 2001 under Pointblank Records.
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John P Hammond Interview
Published: December 18, 2004
Source:
Craig Morrison: How has the tour been going?
John Hammond: It’s the end of the tour and end of the year and so it’s nice. It’s been a really long year, we’ve been all over the world. It’s been really great.
CM: What were the highlights?
JH: God, there’s so many. We’ve been over to Europe five or six times, we’ve been all through Australia and Brazil and Alaska, all through Canada and all through the US.
CM: I want to ask you about a couple of tunes that you did tonight. There’s one, I think it’s called “Mother-In-Law Blues.” I’ve heard Johnny Winter do it, also Jack DeKeyzer. Whose tune is that?
JH: “Mother-In-Law Blues.” I got the song from Junior Parker. [It was recorded by Junior Parker on the Duke label in 1956, credited to Deadric Malone, a pseudonym for Don Robey.]
CM: And what about “My Time After A While”?
JH: It’s written by Bob Geddins and someone. I got the song from Buddy Guy, so I thought that he wrote the song, right? [Buddy Guy recorded it on Chess in 1964, credited to Geddins and Ronald Dean Badger.] Most people think [that] who they hear do it, they wrote it.
CM: Who’s Geddins, do you know?
JH: I met Bob Geddins. I was playing at a festival in Sacramento and I said “I’d like to do this Buddy Guy song” and I played “My Time After a While” and when I got through playing, you know, everybody liked it. But this guy walked up to the edge of the stage and said: “excuse me, I wrote that song, not Buddy Guy !” I looked down at this older black man, very elegant, and I said, “I’m sorry, I didn’t know.” He said, “My name is Bob Geddins.” I said [into the mic], “Excuse me, that was by Bob Geddins, and he’s right here !” That’s how I found out.
CM: What a great moment!
JH: You come to find out who wrote things.
CM: One of the tunes I especially liked tonight, and I remember liking it when I saw you at McGill four years ago, is “Mama T’Aint Long Fo’ Day” by Blind Willie McTell. It’s so lovely, those little slides, it just goes down so nice and slow. I’ve studied a lot of this music. I’m a guitar player too and I give a course at McGill called History of the Blues.
JH: Oh that’s great!
CM: I also give courses on the Beatles and on ’60s music and other things, but this is, I think, my most popular course. We just ran another version of it. I get to talk about you and I’ve got a nice video of you, a black and white clip of you doing [Robert Johnson’s] “Terraplane Blues.” I don’t where it’s from.
