John Hammond - Memphis Town

This is a splendid song (by Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell) and a great performance by John Hammond. For making the visual background I used the historic film (one of the very first ever made!) "L'Arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat" (Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat)
by brothers Auguste & Louis Lumière, made in 1895! And certainly I used pieces from Buster Keyton's fantastic film - 'The General' (1927). You probably know that a 2002 worldwide poll by "Sight and Sound" set this movie as the 15th best film of all time!

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Music

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• John
• Hammond
• Buster
• Keyton

[glassoniongirl64]

Great song. By the way, it's spelt Keaton, not Keyton.

[13jacksonm]

sounds very similar to robert johnson

[BenSHammonds]

Great stuff from John!!!!

[JKRost]

There's a serious shortage of great blues here in Memphis. Come on back John!!!

[sawabojo]

great stuff

[Xegethra]

crazy ass stunt film....

O_o

[Toyboy789]

Excellent treatment of a great blues classic!

[smurfette2234]

That would be the Panama Limited, the City of New Orleans, or the Creole...three trains that came through Memphis.

[Raymantico]

cool tune, nice viz-u-als

[smurfette2234]

I remember that Memphis train. My boyfriend used to come on it from the University of Arkansas.