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- Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton · 1966
- Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton · 1966
- Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton · 1966
- Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton · 1966
- Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton · 1966
- A Hard Road · 1967
- Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton · 1966
- Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton · 1966
- A Hard Road · 1967
- A Hard Road · 1967
Essential Albums
- Eric Clapton was a rising star when he recorded this potent and scruffy album with British blues singer/songwriter John Mayall in 1966. Mayall’s tunes, including the brass-fortified “Key to Love”, the slow-burning “Double Crossing Time” and barroom rave-up “Little Girl”, lift on Clapton’s fluid, gritty licks. The band channels some Beatles on Ray Charles’ R&B standard “What’d I Say”, before tackling with noisy accuracy Mose Allison and Bukka White’s gnarly prison anthem “Parchman Farm”. Meanwhile, Clapton makes his lead-vocal debut on a languorous rendition of Robert Johnson’s “Ramblin’ on My Mind”.
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- 2005
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Music Videos
- 2011
- 2011
- 2011
Live Albums
- 2016
- 2007
- 1999
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About John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
Throughout the '60s, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers acted as a finishing school for the leading British blues-rock musicians of the era. Guitarists Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and Mick Taylor joined his band in a remarkable succession in the mid-'60s, honing their chops with Mayall before going on to join Cream, Fleetwood Mac, and the Rolling Stones, respectively. John McVie and Mick Fleetwood, Jack Bruce, Aynsley Dunbar, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Andy Fraser (of Free), John Almond, and Jon Mark also played and recorded with the band for varying lengths of times in the '60s. Mayall's personnel tended to overshadow his own considerable abilities. Only an adequate singer, the multi-instrumentalist was adept in bringing out the best in his younger charges (Mayall himself was in his thirties by the time the Bluesbreakers began to make a name for themselves). Doing his best to provide a context in which they could play Chicago-style electric blues, Mayall was never complacent, writing most of his own material, revamping his lineup with unnerving regularity, and constantly experimenting within his basic blues format. ~ Richie Unterberger
- ORIGIN
- England
- FORMED
- 1963
- GENRE
- Blues