John Hammond - Big City Blues

Tracks:
1. I'm Ready
2. My Starter Won't Start
3. Barbecue Blues
4. I'm a Man
5. Barrelhouse Woman Blues
6. Midnight Hour Blues
7. Backdoor Man
8. I Live the Life I Love
9. No Money Down
10. My Babe
11. When You Got a Good Friend
12. Baby, Won't You Tell Me

Review by Richie Unterberger

Hammond's second effort was one of the first electric white blues recordings, and one of the very first that could be said to be blues-rock. Covering a variety of Chess Records classics and electrifying some older tunes, the playing, featuring Hammond, Billy Butler, and James Spruill on electric guitar, is first-rate. But Hammond's vocals are overly mannered and overwrought, and although he would improve, these flaws would keep him from rising to the top rank of white bluesmen.

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