CG & The Hammer - Something Good: The Memphis Sessions

Album: Something Good: The Memphis Sessions
Size: 124,5 MB
Time: 53:40
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Blues, harmonica blues, roots
Art: Front, back

1. Something Good (5:14)
2. Nothing To Believe In (4:19)
3. Trying To Get Back Home (4:00)
4. Leaving You (5:20)
5. Drinkin' Alone (2:48)
6. Black Heart (3:50)
7. Hold On Tonight (4:38)
8. Back To The Country (5:03)
9. When You Awake (4:07)
10. An Eye For An Eye (4:59)
11. Crazy Days (4:20)
12. Every Dog's Day (4:56)

America-born blues artists Dov Hammer and Sagi "CG" Shorer first met in Tel Aviv in 1999. By then each had paid plenty of "blues dues", leading their own bands, grinding through the bar circuit, and backing visiting blues artists such as Billy Branch, Zora Young, Deitra Farr, Paul deLay, Lucky Peterson and King Earnest Baker. Since then, collaborating as "CG & The Hammer", they have played hundreds of shows in clubs, concert halls and international festivals. They have toured the USA three times, including representing Israel twice at the International Blues challenge in Memphis, TN.

"Something Good" is the band's fourth album. After more then a decade of playing blues in Israel, the band decided to return to the source, and made the pilgrimage to Memphis TN, where they recorded 12 new songs at the historic "Sun" studio. In this special atmosphere, recording where B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Ike Turner, Elvis, Johnny Cash and others had made their great hits, the band tapped into the magical source of the music which has inspired them. The result is CG & The Hammer's best album to date, a unique melding of blues, rock 'n' roll and country, with the band's own original songwriting, passionate vocals, wailing harmonica and fiery guitar.

Personnel: Sagi Shorer (vocals, guitar); Dov Hammer (harmonica, backing vocals); Nir Elbaz (bass); Oren Avisar (drums).

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CG & The Hammer - Live In Tel Aviv

Album: Live In Tel Aviv
Size: 161,8 MB
Time: 69:48
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2010
Styles: Blues, harmonica blues
Art: Full

1. Let The Good Times Roll (5:19)
2. Same Old Fool (4:36)
3. Highway Blues (5:05)
4. Bad Luck (8:56)
5. I Just Can't Quit On You (3:37)
6. Shake Your Hips (8:25)
7. The New Funky Blues (6:30)
8. Boogie With Me (5:50)
9. Slow Night In Clarksdale (5:15)
10. Big Little Woman (4:43)
11. Hoochie Coochie Man (6:18)
12. Blues Heaven (5:10)

We are proud to present "Live in Tel Aviv" - the 3rd album by CG & The Hammer. Celebrating 10 years of playing together, this album presents the great musicianship, and powerful live energy of the band. Their dynamic stage performance showcases original songs by the band, as well as blues classics from Willie Dixon to Slim Harpo. When Dov Hammer and Sagi "CG" Shorer, two America-born bluesmen first met in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1999, both had already paid plenty of dues, both as sidemen (sharing stages with such blues greats as Willie Kent, Paul deLay, Zora Young, Billy Branch and the late King Earnest Baker among others) and leading their own bands. The two soon joined forces to create the group now known as "CG & The Hammer".

While deeply rooted in the blues styles of Chicago and Texas, the band has never tried to copy a "classic" sound, instead updating and continuing the evolution of the blues and giving it their own unique flavor. They have toured the USA three times, visiting Ohio and Chicago in 2004 and touring Florida, Mississippi and Tennessee in 2005, including festival performances at the River City Blues Festival in Ohio and the International Blues Challenge in Memphis TN. In 2009 they returned to the south, playing in Alabama, Florida and making an unforgettable appearance at the International Blues Challenge, as well as being chosen for the "Kings of Beale Street" show in Memphis.

Their first album "Feels Like Home" was released in 2002 to great critical acclaim, featuring 12 new original blues songs. In 2008 they released their 2nd album "Blues Heaven", which was chosen by the Blues Foundation in Memphis as one of the top 12 independent blues albums of the year. From bars to festivals to concert halls, CG & The Hammer continue to thrill audiences with a combination of passion, energy and honesty. Their music is never a re-creation of sounds from the past, but rather an updated, vital celebration of the blues as the soundtrack of real life.

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Dov Hammer - Exile - The Chicago Blues Sessions

Album: Exile - The Chicago Blues Sessions
Size: 111,0 MB
Time: 48:02
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2025
Styles: Chicago blues, harmonica blues
Art: Front

1. Genuine (4:20)
2. I'm Just Your Fool (Feat. Deitra Farr) (2:46)
3. The Same Thing (6:14)
4. I'm Your Man (4:08)
5. Exile (4:22)
6. Fair Weather Friends (5:15)
7. Back To The Wall (4:24)
8. Last Night (5:09)
9. I'm Getting Tired Of Hanging Around (2:59)
10. Take A Message (4:06)
11. Keep On Searching (Feat. Guy King) (4:15)

Dov Hammer has been at the forefront of the blues scene in Israel for 30 years. Formerly the frontman for "The Blues Rebels", "The Daily Blues" and "CG & The Hammer", he has returned to performing under his own name playing acoustic and electric Chicago-style blues. His original music has appeared on 9 albums, most recently on “BlueSoul” released in the summer of 2019. Over the years he has played with many great blues artists including Joe Louis Walker, Lucky Peterson, Bernard Allison, Zora Young, Deitra Farr, Billy Branch, "King" Ernest Baker, Paul deLay, Hans Theesink, Jimmy Johnson and others.

Originally from the USA, now living in Tel Aviv, Hammer played bass in several rock bands as a high school student. He switched to the harmonica while serving in the Israeli army, finding it much more practical to carry around than the bass guitar, and immediately fell in love with the pocket-sized soulful instrument which he found perfect for blues expression. After a year of busking on the streets in the USA and Ireland, Dov Hammer joined the band of Canadian blues artist Ted Cooper for four years of non-stop blues.

He has played at the prestigious Rochester (NY) Jazz Festival in 2005 and toured eastern Europe, playing at the “Blues Nights” festival in Lithuania in 2007. In 2013 and 2017 he performed in Germany with CG & The Hammer and The Blues Rebels respectively. Dov Hammer has also played onstage and on the recordings of many top Israeli pop artists, such as Yahli Sobol, Shai Gavso, Miki Gavrielov, and Arkadi Duchin with whom he recorded a TV special. His harmonica playing is also featured on many TV commercials and film soundtracks.

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Dov Hammer - Going Deep

Year: 2004
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:08
Size: 113,2 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues, harmonica blues, roots
Scans: Front

1. Secret Smile (4:44)
2. Move A Little Closer (4:17)
3. Evil Ways (4:05)
4. Big Little Woman (4:19)
5. Sweet Blues (5:11)
6. Silver Dollar (4:00)
7. Stranger (3:51)
8. Her Love Is Like A Rock (2:33)
9. Holding On (2:29)
10. Don't Cry For Me (3:07)
11. Keep On Searching (4:57)
12. Ely's Shack (5:31)

Dov Hammer is Israel's leading blues artist. Born and raised in Chicago, Hammer now resides in Tel Aviv, Israel. Over the years, as well as leading his own bands, he has also shared stages with some of the best American blues artists, including Paul deLay, Billy Branch, Zora Young and the late King Earnest Baker.

After years of performing and recording with electric Blues bands, Dov Hammer felt the urge to return to his roots and play acoustic music. For the past two years he has held a steady Sunday night acoustic show at Tel Aviv's only blues club "Mike's Place". Accompanied by guitar virtuoso Ronnie Katz, Hammer utilized the stripped-down format to highlight the emotional power of the blues.

The intensity and showmanship of these shows has attracted a steady and growing number of fans, and prompted the recording of this album. Recorded and produced by guitarist Ronnie Katz, "Going Deep" features 12 original songs, many of them written in the wake of and under the influence of the tragic terrorist bombing of "Mike's place" - the duo's "home club".

The album features Hammer's songwriting prowess. Never content to repeat blues clichés, he uses the blues tradition as a platform for personal expression, while seasoning it with influences of other musical forms, such as country, bluegrass and rock. Guest appearances are made on the album, by Hammer's former band mates, local rock and blues artist Danny Zuckerman, and slide maestro Assaf "Sweettooth" Rozov.

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Dov Hammer - BlueSoul

Year: 2019
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:10
Size: 92,4 MB
Styles: Blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Front

1. Make It Count (3:41)
2. I'm Gone (2:50)
3. Find A Way (5:16)
4. Magic (3:22)
5. Bad Luck Charm (2:41)
6. The Fighting Blues (4:17)
7. Tear It Down (4:20)
8. King (3:53)
9. Dance The Blues (2:56)
10. Taking My Time (2:23)
11. BlueSoul (4:26)

Welcome to the Blue Soul of Dov Hammer - and get ready for some some hipshakin', heartbreakin', earthquakin' blues! For almost 30 years Dov Hammer has plied his trade as singer, songwriter and harmonica player in various bands such as The Blues Rebels, CG & The Hammer and the Daily Blues, as well as backing top notch artists such as Joe Louis Walker, Lucky Peterson, Bernard Allison and many others.

Now comes "BlueSoul", Dov Hammer's new album, the first recorded under his own name since 2004's "Going Deep". While that album was strictly stripped-down, raw acoustic blues, "BlueSoul" is a bubbling pot of blues gumbo - a variety of styles ranging from Chicago to New Orleans, from traditional to modern and all points in between, all anchored by Hammer's soulful vocals, soaring harmonica and unique songwriting. The songs deal with love and loss, going through challenges and changes and enduring trials and tribulations with grit and determination and some hard earned humor.

The album kicks off with classic Chicago style blues shuffle in "Make It Count", then immediately heads south for some New orleans "second line" party music in "I'm Gone". Some heavy blues-rock is at play on "Find A Way" and "Magic" (featuring the fantastic lap-steel slide of Ori Beanstock), while Hammer features his chromatic harmonica on the tongue-in-cheek, jump Bblues of "Bad Luck Charm".

"The "Fighting Blues" is a stark, Skip James style Delta Blues, while "Tear It Down" rocks and rolls like a freight train rumbling through the Mississippi night ... then a brief stylistic detour into country-rock as Hammer and special guest Assaf Rozov pay homage to their late friend and mentor "King" Earnest Baker on "King".

"Dance The Blues" is another Chicago Blues, paying tribute to the slow grinding pleasure of the blues dancers. "Taking My Time" is a raunchy, semi-electronic bluesy love song, then the album signs off with the autobiographical title track, a melding of blues and hip-hop featuring Dov Hammer's daughter Naomi Jo Hammer on the soul chorus.

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