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A Hard Road

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

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Album Review

Eric Clapton is usually thought of as John Mayall's most important right-hand man, but the case could also be made for his successor, Peter Green. The future Fleetwood Mac founder leaves a strong stamp on his only album with the Bluesbreakers, singing a few tracks and writing a couple, including the devastating instrumental "Supernatural." Green's use of thick sustain on this track clearly pointed the way to his use of guitar riffs with elongated, slithery tones on Fleetwood Mac's "Albatross" and "Black Magic Woman," as well as anticipating some aspects of Carlos Santana's style. Mayall acquits himself fairly well on this mostly original set (with occasional guest horns), though some of the material is fairly mundane. Highlights include the uncharacteristically rambunctious "Leaping Christine" and the cover of Freddie King's "Someday After a While (You'll Be Sorry)."

Customer Reviews

It will make you sweat!

This is an amazing album especially the one with the 22 extra songs on it! I would highly recommend it to any blues fan. Peter's playing and singing are super-natural and this album shows how great of a guitar player and singer he really was and still is. In my opinion this is just as good or better as anything else Mayall has done includeing the Clapton album. GREAT!

Peter Green

Such an inspirational player.....not credited enough for his influences, right on top with the best ever.....

22 extra songs?

This is classic that every blues/rock enthusiast should own! But where do I get the 22 extra songs the previous reviewer spoke of? I want them now!

Biography

Born: November 29, 1933 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England

Genre: Blues

Years Active: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

As the elder statesman of British blues, it is John Mayall's lot to be more renowned as a bandleader and mentor than as a performer in his own right. Throughout the '60s, his band, 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....
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