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Track Listings

1	2:19
2	Heartattack And Vine
3	Clap Hands
4	'Til The Money Runs Out
5	16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought Six
6	Buzz Fledderjohn
7	Get Behind The Mule
8	Shore Leave
9	Fannin Street
10	Jockey Full Of Bourbon
11	Big Black Mariah
12	Murder In The Red Barn
13	I Know I've Been Changed

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.51 x 5.59 x 0.39 inches; 3.32 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Virgin
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2132841
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2001
SPARS Code ‏ : ‎ DDD
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ July 27, 2006
Label ‏ : ‎ Virgin
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000059T5O
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Best Sellers Rank: #108,997 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #817 in Contemporary Blues (CDs & Vinyl)
- #60,453 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl)

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Richard A. DiDio

Clap Hands for Wicked Grin

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2001

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Since getting Wicked Grin just a few weeks ago I have listened to it continuously - it is simply one of the most amazing, interesting, inspiring, all-time great pieces of music that I have ever heard, with dangerously clear lyrics, vocals, arrangements, and musicians. I have been talking everyone's ears off about this - even forcing colleagues to drive around the parking lot with me as I try to mimic Augie Meyers staccato accordion attack on Jockey Full of Bourbon on my steering wheel!
Amazingly, I was able to catch Hammond in Philly last weekend - it was the last night of the Wicked Grin tour. He did the entire CD, plus some extras (e.g. Gun Street Girl). Clap Hands and Shore Leave were suitably edgy and brilliant. Amazing. And I even got to meet Larry Taylor after the show. Augie was there as well as Stephen Hodges. I hope they do it again. And again after that.
Wonder if someone could convince Hammond and Waits to record the entire Waits repertoire? This is not that crazy - how about the conductors who insist on re-recording all of Bach's works whenever they switch orchestras? I'd buy an 18-CD boxed set of Hammond/Waits anytime.

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David Out West

Good intro to Tom Waits for John Hammond fans and vice versa

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2020

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Nice song choices, fun stuff.
John Hammond's dad was a record producer and instrumental in bringing African American musicians and singers into the mainstream from the 1930's on to the 1980's. He helped start the careers a lot of artists including Dylan, Springsteen, Cohen, etc. I point that out because having a father in the industry gave his son, also John, a great start.

Good buy, good condition.

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2021

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John Hammond singing Tom Waits what a natural match

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William Hoffknecht

Great

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2008

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So there is not much more that can be said about this album. This is one of the most solid collections of Tom Waits renditions that you will find, almost as great as Tom himself.

Better than any of the other tribute compilations and better than the Scarlett Johansson or even the Holly Cole renditions, although I must say that the Holly Cole ones are rather great as well.

John Hammond is one of the moden greats in Blues and really has somethings to say and says them with love, heart and soul. This album captures that with the brilliance that only Tom Waits could deliver.

Buy it!

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GerBear

Great selection of songs.

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2021

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John Hammond is so good and really sings Tom Waite's songs well.

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Errol Vickers

NOT all life has an EXPIREY date

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2015

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Never thought I`d ever bother to write a review____but here it is.Have most of John Hammond`s earlist LP`s.HE was not popular in Australia-but to me he always came across as original and honest.What`s so earth shattering about that!! Well 30-40 years later he`s got better. This can not be said for most performers or artists. The combination of Waits &Hammond is inspired.IF you like tastefull,personel,long lasting, masterfull music about life this CD is the REAL DEAL money back!!!

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2013

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This excellent CD has been in regular rotation in my listening queue for years now. It may seem an unlikely candidate for a classic - a cover album comprised entirely of Tom Waits songs - but Tom Waits' production of the release and John Hammond's uncanny musical instincts and abilities, along with John's voice which is expressive but probably more palatable to the mainstream than Tom Waits', combine to take this one over the top!

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Michael D. Harris

Waits fans may recoil...

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2001

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...but ought to give it a listen. I'm a big fan of Waits' gritty skid row sensibility and found sounds, and with any luck those familiar only with Hammond's blues will develop an appreciation of Waits' raw, gristle-and-veins poetry.
I'm particularly fond of Jockey full of Bourbon, which in the Waits original reminds me of sitting on 3rd street in downtown L.A. at 5AM, listening to a tinny radio in a piece of crap '82 chrysler while a buddy called Bock-A-Looch scores a packet of Mexican Brown... only Hammond's lyrics are much more understandable. Waits captures the atmosphere, Hammond gives it to the listener.

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Pier Morandi

Qualità, ricerca sonora, groove ….e classe.

Reviewed in Italy on April 12, 2018

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Lavoro di qualità da parte del valoroso John Hammond (Jr.), figlio di John Hammond (Sr.), produttore, ma soprattutto incredibile talent scout.

Wicked Grin è un album di blues, dalla prima all’ultima nota, ma non troverete il classico 12 bar blues, perché si muove su strutture modali, a volte su un unico accordo insistente, tra shuffle e upbeat. Mi riporta a quello stupendo album che fu The Hot Spot con John Lee Hooker e Miles Davis (che accoppiata, no?).

Hammond usa come base le canzoni del suo amico Tom Waits e si fa circondare da musicisti fidati, tra i quali spiccano l’eroico Larry Taylor al basso, Charlie Musselwhite, ovviamente all’armonica (tracks 3 - 7 - 11), lo stesso Tom Waits al piano (pizzicato), alla chitarra, alla rumoristica che gli piace tanto ed alla voce (track 13).

Il lavoro è di alta qualità, perché Hammond è uomo di blues nel profondo, e questo ‘Ghigno Malvagio’ è sorretto, su tutte le tracce, da un sound e groove sempre all’altezza.

Libretto a 10 facciate, con un resoconto pieno di ammirazione da parte dell’inossidabile T Bone Burnett e le solite note interne.

Come suona su un buon impianto? Considerato il supporto CD (che non suonerà mai come il vinile), Wricked Grin si fa sentire con piacere, perché oltre ad aver un buon equilibrio di mixaggio, ha dinamica e trasparenza.

L’avevo già avuto, questo album, ma l’ho ricomprato qui su Amazon, da un ottimo venditore privato, perché ne sentivo la mancanza.

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pirates99

ジョン・ハモンド

Reviewed in Japan on November 16, 2014

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今聴くとジョン・ハモンドのターニングポイントだったアルバムだと思います。それまでのブルースの有名曲のカバーだけのレパートリーから表現の幅が広がりました。トム・ウェイツ自身がゲサな歌い方から好き嫌いが別れますが、このアルバムやブラインド・ボーイズが歌った曲は出来が良いです
。ジョン・ハモンドが単なるホワイト・ブルースマンからアーティストに変わる大きなステップとなるアルバムです。表現者としてもっと評価されて良いアーティストだと思います。

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helghigna

L'Hammond migliore

Reviewed in Italy on March 8, 2022

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John Hammond collaborò con l’eclettico Tom Waits durante la registrazione di Mule Variations del 1999 e questi ricambiò il favore producendo Wicked Grin nel 2001, un album contenente i rifacimenti di sue 12 canzoni, più una Fannin’ Street nata in seno al progetto stesso. Una rilettura peculiare dei dispacci di Tom Waits sul mezzo mondo americano popolati da avvincenti storie e personaggi surreali, un’avventura musicale che si fregia di una grande forza interpretativa

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Tom Waits in chiave blues

Reviewed in Italy on July 23, 2012

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Se amate il genere Blues e il lavoro di Tom Waits ve lo consiglio.
John Hammond tratta il repertorio di Tom Waits in chiave blues tradizionale. Molto efficaci gli arrangiamenti, espressiva e profonda la voce di Hammond, strumentisti acustici di ottimo livello.
Cover interpretate in modo personale e con il progetto di fare un bel disco di blues senza andare in cerca di stranezze e innovazioni particolari a livello sonoro.
C'è anche una comparsata di Waits cantante (che produce il disco e suona qui e là) in "I've been changed". Un'altra versione di questo pezzo è presente nella recente raccolta "Orphans" di 3 cd con inediti e rarità di Waits).
Blues vecchia scuola per avere una nuova prospettiva blues su alcuni classici Waitsiani che non sono stati interamente concepiti come veri e propri blues.

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However I was keen to have the CD as it sounds better on playback

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 17, 2018

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First heard this album on Spotify. However I was keen to have the CD as it sounds better on playback.

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