has been suggested that Hammond deserves some credit for helping boost The Band to wider recognition. He recorded with several members of The Band in 1965 and recommended them to Bob Dylan, with whom they undertook a famed and tumultuous world tour. Hammond hosted the 1991 UK television documentary The Search for Robert Johnson, detailing the life of the legendary Delta bluesman Robert Johnson. Hammond has had a longstanding friendship with the songwriter Tom Waits and has performed Waits' songs on occasion. In 2001, he released Wicked Grin, an album consisting entirely of Waits compositions, with one exception, the traditional spiritual, "I Know I've Been Changed". Waits played guitar and sang backing vocals on the album and was also its producer. In 2003, he released Ready for Love, produced by David Hidalgo of Los Lobos. It included a Mick Jagger and Keith Richards song, "The Spider and the Fly". His 2009 album, entitled Rough & Tough, was a 2010 nominee for the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. In 2011, Hammond was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame of the Blues Foundation. Personal life Hammond married his first wife, Dana McDevitt, a daughter of John Burke McDevitt, on October 21, 1967. They later divorced. In 1991, Hammond married his second wife, Marla. Discography 1963 John Hammond (Vanguard) 1964 Big City Blues (Vanguard) – includes the first blues-rock cover of Willie Dixon's "Back Door Man", later made famous by the Doors. 1965 Country Blues (Vanguard) 1965 So Many Roads (Vanguard) 1967 Mirrors (Vanguard) – reissued on Real Gone Music in 2016. 1967 I Can Tell (Atlantic) 1968 Sooner or Later (Atlantic) – reissued on Water Music in 2002. 1969 Southern Fried (Atlantic) – reissued on Water Music in 2002. 1970 The Best of John Hammond (Vanguard) compilation 1971 Source Point (Columbia) 1971 Little Big Man / Original Soundtrack (Columbia) 1972 I'm Satisfied (Columbia) 1973 Triumvirate – with Mike Bloomfield and Dr. John (Columbia) 1975 Can't Beat the Kid (Capricorn) – reissued on Polygram in 1997. 1976 John Hammond: Solo [live] (Vanguard) 1978 Footwork (Vanguard) 1979 Hot Tracks – with The Nighthawks (Vanguard) 1980 Mileage (Rounder) 1982 Frogs for Snakes (Rounder) 1983 John Hammond Live (Rounder) 1984 Spoonful (Edsel) – compilation 1988 Nobody but You (Flying Fish) – reissued on Point Blank/Virgin in 1996. 1992 Got Love if You Want It (Point Blank/Virgin) 1993 You Can't Judge a Book by