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Wicked Grin

John Hammond, Albert Hammond Jr. | Format: Audio CD
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (2 April 2001)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Point Blank
  • ASIN: B000059T5O
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 76,855 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  1. 2:19 4:42£0.89
Listen  2. Heartattack And Vine 4:40£0.89
Listen  3. Clap Hands 3:59£0.89
Listen  4. 'Till The Money Runs Out 4:02£0.89
Listen  5. 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought Six 4:37£0.89
Listen  6. Buzz Fledderjohn 4:14£0.89
Listen  7. Get Behind The Mule 5:54£0.89
Listen  8. Shore Leave 2:58£0.89
Listen  9. Fannin Street 4:48£0.89
Listen10. Jockey Full Of Bourbon 3:32£0.89
Listen11. Big Black Mariah 4:09£0.89
Listen12. Murder In The Red Barn 5:56£0.89
Listen13. I Know I've Been Changed 2:19£0.89

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Singer and guitarist Hammond devotes nearly all of Wicked Grin to the songs of Tom Waits. It all started when the pair's wives struck on the idea of having Tom produce John's next album. Hammond and Waits have been firm buddies since 1974 and had already made isolated guest exchanges on each other's albums. Once the sessions got swinging, the idea of the Waits song book being used just happened spontaneously, with Tom and Kathleen Brennan even penning two brand-new ditties. Hammond's cranked-up electric guitar is bolstered by a great band featuring Augie Meyers (keys), Larry Taylor (bass) and Stephen Hodges (drums), with Charlie Musselwhite chipping in some primordial harmonica and Waits himself playing background churn-guitar on most cuts. The subterranean feel they capture is inspired, from the swamp-shufflin', grimy trudge of numbers like "Heartattack & Vine" and "Big Black Mariah", to the exposed fragility of "Buzz Fledderjohn" and "Fannin Street". Hammond's mean-mouthed, raspy holler is perfectly suited to the Waits canon, but old Tom does get to sing out on the traditional gospel clap-along of "I Know I've Been Changed". --Martin Longley

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Pointblank Records, 7243 8 50764 2 8, 2001 13 Track

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5.0 out of 5 stars BLUE LIGHT THROUGH OLD WINDOWS, 19 Nov 2002
This review is from: Wicked Grin (Audio CD)
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The vault of Tom Waits' back-catalogue has been smashed open, 13 songs wrenched from it, beaten within an inch of their lives and brought, screaming, into the light.

With the help of a gloriously raw production by Waits himself, John Hammond has spawned the blues album of this, or any other year.

13 tracks of gravel, needles, broken glass, smoke and sweat distilled by the deep velvet growl of Hammond, who has never sounded better, he was born for this.

Can't get the CD off the player. One of those albums that makes you close your eyes, grit your teeth, grimace and crank the amp up one notch louder. Tough to pick out a favourite.....maybe Heartattack & Vine or Clap Hands. Only shame is that it will be filed under 'John Hammond/Blues' which may deprive a larger audience of a true gem.

BUY IT, BEG IT, BORROW IT, STEAL IT....BEFORE IT LEAVES TOWN ON THE 2.19

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4.0 out of 5 stars Wicked, 9 Dec 2009
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S. J. Carnell (UK) - See all my reviews
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A great take on some Tom Waites classics, produced by Waites as well. Realy blusey, slowed right down and virtually none of the home made precussion favoured by Waites. My personal favourites are Heartattack and Vine, and Shore Leave, but then I like the Waites versions as well.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Band, Faultless Vocals, 6 Jun 2009
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John Meechan "Perforate" (Glasgow) - See all my reviews
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For anyone who likes Tom Waits' music but not his voice this is probably as good as it gets: excellent band and faultless vocals and, of course, the stamp of approval of the man himself. One or two songs, such as Fannin Street and Big Black Maria, are arguably an improvement on the original. For those of us who rate Tom Waits as a great soul singer in his own right there may be some disappointment.
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