The Curse of K.K. Hammond isn’t here to play nice blues. She’s here to summon ghosts, drag them through the dust, and walk them straight into the fire. With her latest single, Walk With Me Through the Fire, the UK-based slide guitarist and singer-songwriter digs even deeper into her signature blend of Delta blues and gothic Americana, layering in Spaghetti Western grit and Southern darkness.
It’s a song that doesn’t ask for your attention: it demands it from the first slow, crunching beat. Hammond’s voice is low, smoky, and full of the kind of tension that sounds like it’s been brewing for a hundred years. The slide guitar work, shared between Hammond and Kaspar ‘Berry’ Rapkin, wraps around the track like barbed wire, while Ian Davidson’s cello adds the kind of mournful edge that could score a final standoff. Mariachi-style trumpet lines from Lewis Taylor send it fully into Ennio Morricone territory, turning the song into a widescreen showdown scene.
The accompanying music video is no afterthought. It looks like something dredged up from a half-lost Western horror flick, burnt skies, ghost towns, guns, and a sense that something wicked this way comes. Hammond leans into it with full intent. No gimmicks, no irony. She means every frame of it.
This is the blues, but through a cracked lens, grimy, cinematic, and haunted. Following her debut album Death Roll Blues, which took over blues charts in the UK and US, this new release proves she’s not interested in playing by any traditional blues rules. She’s building her own mythos, one scorched track at a time.
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