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Crusade

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

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Album Review

The final album of an (unintentional) trilogy, Crusade is most notable for the appearance of a very young, pre-Rolling Stones Mick Taylor on lead guitar. Taylor's performance is indeed the highlight, just as Eric Clapton and Peter Green's playing was on the previous album. The centerpiece of the album is a beautiful instrumental by Taylor titled "Snowy Wood," which, while wholly original, seems to combine both Green and Clapton's influence with great style and sensibility. The rest of the record, while very enjoyable, is standard blues-rock fare of the day, but somewhat behind the then-progressive flavor of 1967. Mayall, while being one of the great bandleaders of London, simply wasn't really the frontman that the group needed so desperately, especially then. Nevertheless, Crusade is important listening for Mick Taylor aficionados.

Customer Reviews

groovy

John Mayall is really good. Not only is he good but the people he puts around him are really good. First Eric Clapton, then Peter Green, and on Crusade, Mick Taylor. All of whom are really good. If you like this, you'll probably like "Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton" and a "Hard Road," which feature the aforementioned Clapton and Green. All of the albums are stylistically similar but the different guitarists put their own slant on the familiar style with their commanding prowess at their instrument. In general, John Mayall is really good.

One of the best

I saw this band at the Whiskey on Sunset twice right after hearing Pretty Woman for the first time, when Crusade was first released. Mick Taylor was just a kid, but so smooth. I own lots of blues, but this is just about my favorite album (wore out 2 vinyl copies before there were CDs). This absolutely cooks.

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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