I have found one of those rare flea-market-book-stall treasures, "John Hammond On Record," the autobiography of the man who discovered Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. It came out on Penguin in 1977.
I've been reading it for the last two days, despite feeling rough thanks to some oppressive ailment of the chest I've picked up in that time. We've all heard about Hammond through the Dylan stories, but this gives you a chance to peer inside his mind; and it's a literate, thoughtful and highly moral mind at that.
I can't write much that's inspired right now because the medication I'm on is shutting down the flow of my thoughts.
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