John Mayall & Bluesbreakers, John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers - Hard Road (Exp)
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Artist: John Mayall & Bluesbreakers, John Mayall and The BluesbreakersEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-09-23
Music Label: Polydor / Umgd
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- A Hard Road
- It's Over
- You Don't Love Me
- The Stumble
- Another Kinda Love
- Hit the Highway
- Leaping Christine
- Dust My Blues
- There's Always Work
- The Same Way
- The Supernatural
- Top of the Hill
- Someday After Awhile (You'll Be Sorry)
- Living Alone
- Evil Woman Blues [*]
- All My Life [*]
- Ridin' on the L&N [*]
- Little by Little [*]
- Eagle Eye [*]
- Looking Back
- So Many Roads
- Sitting in the Rain
- Out of Reach
- Mama Talk to Your Daughter
- Alabama Blues
- Curly
- Rubber Duck
- Greeny
- Missing You
- Please Don't Tell
- Your Funeral and My Trial
- Double Trouble
- It Hurts Me Too
- Jenny
- Picture on the Wall
- First Time Alone
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Music Review: Essential Brit Blues
Rating: 4 Stars
A simply fabulous collection of historically valuable and noteworthy British blues. John Mayall was, and is, a kind of professorial blues pied piper, similar in what he's done for blues and blues musicians as Art Blakey has done for jazz and jazz players. I can't think of anyone who's done more for blues than the remarkably durable Mr. Mayall, who's still active, and still producing vital and energetic music, well into his '70's. We all should be so fortunate!
What more can be said about Peter Green? There was a bit of a backlash when Peter replaced the more ambitious and fame-driven Clapton as lead guitar in The Bluesbreakers, but Peter let his playing do the talking. His absolutely masterful and chillingly soulful playing is showcased here to beautiful effect. Of course, it's classified as a blues album, but there is an astonishing stylistic breadth to the 36 tunes here, and that is mainly because of the virtuosity of Peter Green. Mayall must have secretly been glad EC left! Peter's playing here does sound at times very similar to Clapton, and Peter has admitted that Eric influenced him greatly. But that is the characteristically modest and self-effacing side of Peter speaking. In his work throughout the two disks, he demonstrates a restless and searching creative spirit, e.g. Supernatural, Greeny, which would eventually result in several earth-shattering blockbusters with Fleetwood Mac. It typifies Mayall's generosity and--let's face it--business acumen, that he allowed PG's incredible talent to shine through.
There are many reasons to recommend this collection. First and most important, you will hear both kinds of Peter Green's trademark, double-barrelled blues: achingly emotional slow blues, AND fiercely powerful rocking blues. Listen closely to the guitar work throughout; you won't find any better playing anywhere. Besides being a peerless blues guitarist, Green was, incidentally, a decent enough harp player to give JM a run for his money, and his work appears on this collection (There's Always Work, a duet with JM). He was also, in my opinion, far superior to Mayall as a singer. None of this great stuff appears anywhere else. You will also get all of the wonderful work that the late, great Paul Butterfield recorded with John is included, a real bonus. Finally, the rhythm section of drummer Aynsley Dunbar--yeah, the same one who played in Journey--and John McVie lend a heavy driving beat to the band, presaging the unmatched power of Mick Fleetwood and the same John McVie a year later in the legendary Fleetwood Mac.
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