re: #779 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

“”The answer is John Hammond. A&R guy for artists from Bessie Smith to Bob Dylan. His son is a gifted blues performer.”“

Edit Correction: Sorry (must have stayed out in the sun too long today, herding cats) but I meant Billie Holiday & wrote Bessie Smith.

“But John Hammond is different, because was thinking about what he was doing.
I’ve got period promos of this [Link: amazon.com…]
Also on vinyl (never got around to getting it on CD). That series changed the rules.”

Yea, he changed the rules. IIUC, until Hammond convinced white big bands to hire black musicians, there were no recordings of a mixed race performance since Jimmy Rogers, “Any Ole Time.”

But to your point of Hammond thinking about what he was doing.
Hammond got it!! When he heard (put on your Kerouac hat) Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen; he got
it!! Hammond didn’t think - he knew.