Dov Hammer – Exile – The Chicago Blues Sessions
Dov Hammer – Exile – The Chicago Blues Sessions
Format: CD – Digital
Label: Independent
Release: 2025
“The Chicago Blues has always been at the heart of my music, the driving force behind my desire to be a musician. At the age of 12 I saw John Lee Hooker playing in the Maxwell street market in the movie “The Blues Brothers” and it was the coolest thing I had ever seen – I knew I wanted to play that music. Soon after I discovered Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Junior Wells, James Cotton and so many others, and I was hooked for life. But in the course of 35 years and 9 albums of playing the Blues, I had never gotten around to recording an album of pure Chicago Blues. Until now.
In “Exile”, I have gone back to the source, recording in the city which is the home of the Blues, in some of Chicago’s top studios, where some of my musical heroes have recorded.I have mixed in a few classic songs by Muddy Waters, Little Walter and James Cotton together with a few original songs which I felt had a “Chicago Blues style” to them – and another by my mentor, the man who taught me to play the Blues, Ted Cooper.
And by the time producer and guitarist Dave Specter, along with Rodrigo Mantovani, Brother John Kattke, Johnny Iguana, Marty Binder and Joel Baer got done giving them the Chicago treatment, you can almost hear the L train rolling overhead and feel that wind coming off lake Michigan. The icing on the cake are the pleasure I had in singing duets with two of Chicago’s finest Blues singers, the legendary Deitra Farr, and international Blues star Guy King.”
Website: https://www.dovhammer.com/
Tracks:
01. Genuine
02. I’m Just Your Fool (feat. Deitra Farr)
03. The same thing
04. I’m your man
05. Exile
06. Fair weather friends
07. Back to the Wall
08. Last Night
09. I’m Getting Tired of Hanging Around
10. Take a Message
11. Keep on Searching (feat. Guy King)