Showing posts with label John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: 1968-1971

Here is the third and final album of John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers performing for the BBC.

As I mentioned in the previous two volumes, I'm not a fan of John Mayall's lead vocals. However, in the 1960s, his band the Bluesbreakers was famous for the series of lead guitarists in it. The last bunch of songs were from the time period Mick Taylor was the lead guitarist, and the continues with the first seven songs here. Taylor was only with the Bluesbreakers for about a year. He went on to be a member of the Rolling Stones from 1969 to 1974.

All seven of the songs featuring Taylor come from the mega box set "First Generation." As was the case with many of the songs on the first two albums in this series, in my opinion, Mayall's vocals were buried too low in the mix. Even though I'm not a fan of those vocals, they at least should be mixed properly, in my opinion. So I used the audio editing program X-Minus to boost them.

After Taylor left in 1968, Mayall disbanded the Bluesbreakers. He stopped using the Bluesbreakers name for the next 15 years, then resumed using it for most of the rest of his career (until present day as I write this in 2022). In truth, it didn't matter much if Mayall called his backing band the Bluesbreakers or not - it was always Mayall plus the frequently changing line-ups of his backing band.

It seems Mayall stopped performing for the BBC after this. At least, I can't find any mentions of further BBC performances from 1969 or after. But I did a search and found three songs he did live for the German TV show "Beat Club" with a similarly excellent sound as the BBC recordings. So I've added those at the end. The first two of these are from 1970 and the last one is from 1971. Mayall's lead guitarist for most of 1970 and 1971 was Harvey Mandel, so I'm guessing he played on the Beat Club songs.

Arguably, Mayall's most famous song is "Room to Move," which was recorded in 1969. I looked for a good version from a TV or radio show to include here, but unfortunately I couldn't find one.

This album is 40 minutes long.

01 Picture on the Wall (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor)
02 Knockers Step Forward [Instrumental] (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor)
03 The Last Time [Edit] (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor)
04 Rock Me Baby [Edit] (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor)
05 Oh Pretty Woman [Edit] (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor)
06 Long Gone Midnight [Edit] (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor)
07 It Hurts Me to Leave [Edit] (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor)
08 I'm Gonna Fight for You, J. B. [Edit] (John Mayall)
09 The Train [Edit] (John Mayall)
10 My Pretty Girl [Edit] (John Mayall)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16693359/JOHNMYLL1968-1971_BBSssonsVlum3_atse.zip.html

The cover shows Mayall performing at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1969.

Friday, August 19, 2022

John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1967-1968

A few days ago, I posted the first of three albums of John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers performing for the BBC. That one largely dealt with the time Eric Clapton was the band's lead guitarist. 

For this volume, Peter Green was the lead guitarist for the first 7 songs. After leaving this band, he would help form Fleetwood Mac and become a big star. Note that bassist John McVie had been a member of the Bluesbreakers since the band formed around 1963, but he too left to form Fleetwood Mac. Drummer Mick Fleetwood was briefly a member right around when Green left, and also left to with the other two to start Fleetwood Mac (named after Fleetwood and McVie).

Green was replaced on lead guitar by Mick Taylor. He is featured on all of the rest of the songs here, including the two bonus tracks. Taylor only stayed with the Bluesbreakers for about a year, then left to become a member of the Rolling Stones for a few years. There are more songs featuring him in Volume 3 of this series.

All the songs here come from the 2021 mega-box set "First Generation." The sound quality is generally excellent. However, on some of the songs, I felt Mayall's lead vocals were too low in the mix. I'm not a fan of Mayall's singing, but I felt he should either be heard properly or not at all. So I used the X-Minus audio editing program to boost his vocals on the songs marked with "[Edit]." It's possible that some of those songs had BBC DJs talking over some of the music, and I fixed that again, or maybe it was both problems. It's been a while since I fixed these, so I don't remember.

There are two versions of the instrumental song "Curly" here. Since it was a showpiece for Green's guitar work, I've kept both.

Getting back to the sound quality issue, some of the songs with Taylor don't sound as good as the others. Generally speaking, I thought they were fine, and worthy of inclusion. But two of them, "Jenny" and "The Last Time," were far worse than the rest, so those two got demoted to bonus track status.

01 Leaping Christine (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Peter Green)
02 Sitting in the Rain (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Peter Green)
03 Curly [Instrumental] (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Peter Green)
04 Riding on the L and N (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Peter Green)
05 Dust My Blues [Edit] (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Peter Green)
06 No More Tears (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Peter Green)
07 Curly [Instrumental] (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Peter Green)
08 Suspicions [Edit] (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor)
09 Worried Love [Edit] (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor)
10 Supermarket Day [Edit] (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor)
11 Snowy Wood [Instrumental] [Edit] (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor)
12 Sweet Sixteen (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor)
13 Another Man's Land (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor)

Jenny (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor)
The Last Time (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16693369/JOHNMYLL1967-1968_BBSssonsVlum2_atse.zip.html

The cover photo shows Mayall in concert in 1968. I would have liked to use a good color photo showing Mayall and either Green or Taylor, but I couldn't find any.

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1965-1966

First off, note that this album is VERY similar to one I've already posted at this blog. I must admit I'm not a fan of John Mayall's vocals. However, his 1960s Bluesbreakers backing bands included a series of great lead guitarists, including Eric Clapton. I previously posted a few albums of John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers when Clapton was the guitarist, including a BBC album. This is basically the exact same thing, except it has five songs in the middle from a time when Clapton wasn't in the band. It's also the first of three albums focusing on Mayall and the Bluesbreakers performing for the BBC in 1960s.

So why are there some songs in the middle here without Clapton? Clapton was a member of the band for their first BBC session, which consists of the first four songs here. But then Clapton semi-quit the Bluesbreakers for the month of October 1965, and that happened to be when another BBC session took place. A guitarist by the name of Jeff Kribit from the little-known Dr. K's Blues Band took Clapton's place for the session. That session makes up tracks five through nine. Then Clapton rejoined the band, so the rest of the songs here feature him. 

This album ends when Clapton left the band for good in 1966. The next volume in this BBC series starts in 1967, with future Fleetwood Mac star Peter Green as the lead guitarist.

In 2021, a John Mayall box set called "First Generation" was released. All of the songs here come from that. The sound quality of the songs are generally excellent. However, I noticed a problem. As I said, I'm not a fan of Mayall's singing. Many of the songs had his vocals rather low in the mix. Even though I don't like his singing much, it should at least be mixed correctly, so I boosted his vocals relative to the instruments for all the songs with "[Edit]" in their titles. Additionally, a couple of those songs may have had the additional problem of BBC DJs talking over some of the music. But if so, I don't remember which ones. However, if that was the case, I removed the talking using the X-Minus audio editing program.

01 Crawling Up a Hill [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
02 Heartache [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
03 Crocodile Walk [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
04 Bye Bye Bird [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
05 I'm Your Witchdoctor (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Jeff Kribit)
06 Cheatin' Woman (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Jeff Kribit)
07 Big Time Playboy (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Jeff Kribit)
08 Parchman Farm [Edit] (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Jeff Kribit)
09 Nowhere to Run (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Jeff Kribit)
10 Little Girl [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
11 Hideaway [Instrumental] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
12 Tears in My Eyes [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
13 Parchman Farm [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
14 Burning My Fingers [Burned My Fingers] [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
15 All Your Love [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
16 Steppin' Out [Instrumental] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
17 On Top of the World [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
18 Key to Love [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16693361/JOHNMYLL1965-1966_BBSssonsVlum1_atse.zip.html

There aren't many color photos of Clapton as a part of the Bluesbreakers. However, a photo session was done for the cover of their only studio album, often known as the "Beano" album for the comic that Clapton was reading for the cover photo. This photo is an outtake from that same photo session.

Monday, February 17, 2020

John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Peter Green - The Marquee Club, London, Britain, 4-27-1967

As I've mentioned in this blog before, I'm not a big fan of John Mayall's singing. The reason I've posting this is 100% due to the lead guitar playing of Peter Green. His guitar was simply on fire here.

This was recorded while Peter Green was still part of John Mayall and the Bluebreakers. For a few months in early 1967, including when this was recorded, there were only four members of the Bluesbreakers: John Mayall, Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, and John McVie. Green, Fleetwood, and McVie all left to form Fleetwood Mac. So this is basically early Fleetwood Mac, except with Mayall doing all the singing

All the songs come from two official live albums, "Live in 1967" and "Live in 1967, Volume 2." These came about being a big fan recorded a handful of the band's concerts in early 1967 using a reel-to-reel machine, while standing right in front of the stage. This was done with full knowledge of the band, and they listened to the playbacks after each concert was over. So even though it was only an audience bootleg originally, it has much better sound than typical recordings from that era.

Decades later, Mayall bought the rights to the bootlegs and released the highlights as the two official albums mentioned above. There's no between song banter or even audience reaction at the ends of songs. But other than that, it sounds very good, in my opinion, with no crowd noise to speak of while the songs are playing.

 One issue I have with the two live albums is that the songs are from five different concerts, but are not in any apparent order. I've selected the songs that are from just one of those shows, the Marquee Club, because the sound quality is slightly better for that show and there are more songs than for the other shows. This makes up a 45 minute long album. The emphasis is on Green's guitar soloing, with just a minimum amount of vocals and harmonica from Mayall.

I did enough research to get the song order correct. However, I'm missing some songs. I've found a few extra unreleased songs that were recorded by this fan and have been posted on YouTube, but none of them happen to be from the Marquee show. I've heard that the complete recordings for all five shows are out there. For this show, there are about 10 to 15 more minutes of music. If anyone has that extra stuff, please let me know! I could post more from the other concerts, but I'd rather wait first to see if more of the songs show up.

By the way, the version of "Double Trouble" here, from "Live in 1967, Volume 2," is exactly the same as the version from "Live in 1967," which was supposedly recorded at the Manor House a week later. Based on my limited research, I think this version was recorded here, at the Marquee Club.

Also note that some versions of the official live albums call the instrumental "Greeny" by the name "Four Million Knobs." I don't know why that is, but it's the exact same song, and "Greeny" is the name used on the studio album version. 

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 Tears in My Eyes (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Peter Green)
02 Streamline (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Peter Green)
03 The Stumble [Instrumental] (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Peter Green)
04 So Many Roads (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Peter Green)
05 Ridin' on the L & N (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Peter Green)
06 Talk to Your Daughter (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Peter Green)
07 Greeny [Instrumental] (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Peter Green)
08 Double Trouble (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Peter Green)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/y9t9C6f4

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/WKWTGiHrv3m7kGL/file

The photo of Peter Green used for the cover art doesn't come from this exact show. However, it comes from a concert at the Manor House, also in London, just one week later. Due to my usual distaste for black and white photos, I colorized it.

In 2025, I improved the detail of the image with the use of the Krea AI program.

Saturday, December 14, 2019

The Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton - John Mayall's 70th Birtthday Concert - Clapton Version (2003)

I recently posted a couple of albums by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, from the short time Eric Clapton was a part of that band in the mid-1960s. I've got one more thing from them that took place much later. Clapton reunited with that band one time only, as far as I know, which was for Mayall's 70th birthday in 2003.

The entire birthday concert was released on CD and DVD. However, as I've mentioned previously, I'm not a big fan of Mayall's singing, though I'll admit he'd gotten a lot better by the time of this concert, compared to his 1960s work. I'm mainly interested in this for the guitar work of Eric Clapton. So I've edited the over two-hour-long concert down to just the songs that feature Clapton on them.

If you add up all the songs with Clapton, it comes to exactly one hour. Jazz trombonist Chris Barber also features on some of those songs. Guitarist Mick Taylor, who was a member of the Rolling Stones in the late 1960s and early 1970s, joined on on the last song. (He's the main guest star for most of the songs I didn't include here.)

This concert gives Clapton a chance to wail away on his blues guitar in a way he hasn't done that much for the past several decades. The song "Have You Heard" is a particular soloing showcase that goes on for 18 minutes. He also sings lead vocals on two songs, "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "I'm Tore Down."

Since this has been officially released, the sound quality is excellent. I had one quibble with the recording though, and that's how the applause after each song went on and on. So I cut that back to more typical lengths, and shaved a few minutes off the length of the recording as a result.

01 talk (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
02 No Big Hurry (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
03 talk (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
04 Please Mr. Lofton (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton & Chris Barber)
05 Hideaway [Instrumental] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton & Chris Barber)
06 All Your Love [I Miss Loving] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
07 Have You Heard (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
08 Hoochie Coochie Man (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton & Chris Barber)
09 I'm Tore Down (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton & Chris Barber)
10 talk (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
11 Talk to Your Daughter (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor  & Chris Barber)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15852699/TBluesbreakrs_12003_JhnMayalls70thBirtthdyConcert_atse.zip.html

The cover features Mayall and Clapton from the concert. It's a different cover and photo than the one for the official album. And no, Clapton isn't choking Mayall! ;)

Monday, December 9, 2019

The Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton - I'm Your Witchdoctor - Non-Album Tracks (1965-1966)

I just posted an album of BBC performances by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton. As I explained in that post, the 2006 deluxe edition of that band's "Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton" album included a long bonus disc of extra tracks. I decided it makes better listening to split that in two, along with adding some extra tracks. So that BBC album I just posted is the first part of that split, and this album is the second.

So what's on this album? I've used it as a catch-all of everything Clapton did with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers while he was a part of that band in 1965 and 1966. The first five songs are studio tracks. Four of those are A-sides and B-sides.

The next six songs are live tracks. They were professionally recorded for a live album that never got released. So their sound quality is excellent, although, oddly, there's virtually no audience noise at the end of each song. Instead, for most of them, there's some brief talking by band members that quickly fades out. Musically, I think these live tracks are the best part of this album. Clapton is able to stretch out with some great guitar soloing. Also note that Jack Bruce plays bass on these live tracks, but not with anything else recorded by the Bluesbreakers. Of course, Bruce and Clapton would go on to form Cream with Ginger Baker shortly after Clapton left the Bluesbreakers.

Finally, I've ended the album with three songs from a group known as "the Powerhouse." This is kind of an oddity. They weren't a real band; they were a group of musicians who got together one time only to record these three songs for a various artists compilation called "What's Shakin'." I figure they belong here more than anywhere else because they feature Clapton on guitar, and they were recorded in early 1966 while Clapton was still a part of the Bluesbreakers. In addition to Clapton on guitar, the songs feature Steve Winwood on vocals, Jack Bruce on bass, Paul Jones on harmonica, Pete York on drums, and Ben Palmer on piano.

It turns out this album is longer than the BBC Sessions one, at 48 minutes long. By putting the BBC performances on a separate album, I was able to avoid instances of the same song appearing on one album.

01. I'm Your Witchdoctor (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
02. Telephone Blues (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
03. On Top of the World (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
04. Lonely Years (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
05. Bernard Jenkins (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
06. Call It Stormy Monday (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
07. Intro into Maudie (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
08. It Hurts to Be in Love (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
09. Have You Ever Loved a Woman (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
10. Bye Bye Bird (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
11. Hoochie Coochie Man (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
12. Steppin' Out [Instrumental] (Steve Winwood & the Powerhouse)
13. I Want to Know (Steve Winwood & the Powerhouse)
14. Crossroads (Steve Winwood & the Powerhouse)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15266625/TBluesbreakrs_1965-1966_ImYurWitchdoctor_atse.zip.html

I put some extra effort into the cover art in order to make it appear like an album that could have been released in 1966 or thereabouts. I used the cover to the "Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton" album as a rough guide. I found a different photo of the band from that time period as the central focus.

The Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton - BBC Sessions, 1965-1966

In March 1965, Eric Clapton left the Yardbirds because he felt they were becoming too poppy and commercial, and he wanted to play the blues. He joined John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers one month later, and stayed with them through July 1966. The best result of Clapton's time with the Bluesbreakers is the 1966 album "Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton," also known as "The Beano Album."

But they recorded a lot of other music too. Nearly all of this was released as bonus material on the deluxe edition of that album in 2006. However, I felt the way that extra material is presented is not ideal. Extra studio tracks, live tracks, and BBC tracks were all put on one long bonus CD, mixed together without much logic.

So instead, I've split that extra stuff into two albums. This one contains all the BBC material, and the other one contains the rest. 

Thankfully, there was only one instance of BBC DJs talking over the music this time around, for the song "Burning My Fingers." So I did my usual thing of using the X-Minus audio editing program to remove the DJ talking. I suspect only one song was affected because the sessions were not for the usual pop-oriented BBC shows - one of the shows they did was called "Jazz Beat." It seems the DJs for those shows were more respectful of the music.

However, the vast majority of the songs have "[Edit]" in their titles, not just that one. That's because I noticed that Mayall's voice was relatively low in the mix. I'm not a fan of Mayall's singing at all, but I don't like hearing a bad mix with the vocals too low. So I used X-Minus to boost his vocals for all the songs that have vocals.

I know that some people are more fans of Clapton than Mayall. (I'm one of them.) So this features just the BBC sessions where Clapton played guitar. (At the point in his career, he did almost no lead vocals.) 

Note that Clapton semi-quit the Bluesbreakers for the month of October 1965, and that happened to be when another BBC session took place. A guitarist by the name of Jeff Kribit from the little-known Dr. K's Blues Band took Clapton's place for the session. So I have not included those songs here ("Nowhere to Turn," "Cheatin' Woman," and "I'm Your Witchdoctor"). They're included on a different John Mayall BBC sessions album I've posted.

This album is 37 minutes long.

01 Crawling Up a Hill [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
02 Heartache [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
03 Crocodile Walk [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
04 Bye Bye Bird [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
05 Little Girl [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
06 Hideaway [Instrumental] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
07 Tears in My Eyes [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
08 Parchman Farm [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
09 Burning My Fingers [Burned My Fingers] [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
10 All Your Love [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
11 Steppin' Out [Instrumental] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
12 On Top of the World [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)
13 Key to Love [Edit] (Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15266619/TBluesbreakrs_1965-1966_BBSessions_atse.zip.html

For the cover art, I started with an alternate cover to the "Beano" album that was released only in certain markets, and inverted the colors. I liked how it looked. Then I replaced the photo with another one of the band. Finally, I fiddled with the text some, moving parts around and adding Clapton's name and the BBC title.

Sunday, May 13, 2018

Peter Green with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers - A Hard Road - Alternate Peter Green Version (1967)

I think it's safe to say that most Fleetwood Mac fans fall into one of two camps: those who love the Peter Green-led blues group of the late 1960s, and those who love the pop-rock group of the "Rumours" and after. Most fall into the second camp and probably don't even know or care about the Green years.

Personally, I like both phases of the group's career a lot, and I plan on featuring a lot of their music here. It makes sense to begin at the beginning, which in my opinion is a year before Fleetwood Mac was even formed.

Peter Green was the lead guitarist and sometime singer for John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers for most of 1967, while bassist John McVie was in that group too. Drummer Mick Fleetwood also joined and was with the other two in that group for about three months. Then all three of them left and formed Fleetwood Mac.

John Mayall's blues music has a limited appeal even among blues fans due to his voice. I'm afraid to say I'm one of those people who have a hard time listening to his albums because of that. He gives it his all, but he simply wasn't genetically gifted with a voice to sing the blues, in my opinion.

If you like Mayall's voice and all the rest, then great, please listen to the version of the 1967 "A Hard Road" album that already exists. But if you're like me and your real interest in this material is Peter Green, that try this album out. I gathered up all the songs that either were song by Green or were instrumentals featuring his guitar playing. There were only four songs like that on the album proper. But luckily there was a lot of other material recorded by the group while Green was in it. If you add that material in as well, it's enough for an album.

On top of that, there are some decent sounding live recordings from the Green era. (By the way, these are from the tail end of that era when Fleetwood had become the drummer as well.) I've included a couple of those songs that weren't the same as any of the studio tracks. Luckily, most of the sound issues with these live tracks had to do with the vocals, and these extra tracks are instrumentals.

If you add it all up, it comes to 51 minutes, which would have been too long for an album in that era.  But if we imagine the two live instrumentals as bonus material, it comes to 36 minutes, which was ideal for an album length back then.

This is a very unusual album for me. I believe it's the first and only time I've ever made an album specifically to avoid the main lead singer. But if you take away the Mayall-sung songs, what's left is  the first de facto Fleetwood Mac album!

Green should be considered one of the best British blues guitarists of all time, certainly up there with the likes of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page. If you don't believe it, give this album a listen. And if you are fine with Mayall's voice, check out Green's work on all the other songs, especially more of the live versions.

01 You Don’t Love Me (Peter Green with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)
02 The Stumble [Instrumental] (Peter Green with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)
03 The Same Way (Peter Green with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)
04 The Supernatural [Instrumental] (Peter Green with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)
05 Evil Woman Blues (Peter Green with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)
06 Out of Reach (Peter Green with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)
07 Alabama Blues (Peter Green with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)
08 Curly [Instrumental] (Peter Green with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)
09 Rubber Duck [Instrumental] (Peter Green with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)
10 Greeny [Instrumental] (Peter Green with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)
11 Missing You (Peter Green with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)
12 The Stumble [Instrumental] [Live] (Peter Green with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)
13 San-Ho-Zay [Instrumental] [Live] (Peter Green with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)

Soul Dressing [Instrumental] (Peter B's with Peter Green)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Uivm4u8z

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/zWbt3cDlpKlXHTc/file

The cover art was tricky for me to make. I took the "Hard Road" cover and rearranged the words to highlight Green and downplay the others. I wanted to use a photo that emphasized Green in a similar way, with the rest of the group in the background. But finding any color pictures of the group from the Green era was really tough, and I much prefer color photos. I found one of Green alone from 1969, so I used that. But if anyone has a better photo to use, please let me know.