John Hammond Quotes

I think that blues has always been a major foundation in pop music, as has bluegrass. It's music of the people, it's fundamental, it's got all the passion and the zeal of great music. And I think blues has been in the past been overlooked in some ways, but I think more recently it's been acknowledged as the great music that it is.
John Hammond

In the 1930s there were, there was this music that evolved from various sources called blues, and the country blues was the most popular form in those early days, which was before electric instruments and so forth, and artists like Lonnie Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson, Willie McTell, Blind Boy Fuller - these were popular artists that got recorded in their - when recordings were made available locally.
John Hammond