John Mayall Smokin' Blues
Released : 2012
Label: Secret Records
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Classic live album from Frankfurt 1972 & 1973 from John Mayall‘s Jazz Blues Fusion period. 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. 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 Mayall for varying lengths of times in the ’60s. Mayall’s personnel has tended to overshadow his own considerable abilities.
Tracklist :
1. Band Introduction (Narrative) [01:01]
2. Got You On My Mind [12:12]
3. No Smoking [08:07]
4. No Holds Barred [07:23]
5. Band Intro (Narrative) [01:40]
6. Feels Good In Frankfurt [11:42]
7. Next Time Around [11:26]
8. Freddie’s Request (Narrative) [00:31]
9. Sad To Be Alone [06:32]
10. Red Presents Blue Mitchell (Narrative) [01:04]
11. Filthy McNasty [07:54]
12. Make My Bed Tonight [06:42]
Tracks 1- 4 Recorded : 2 May 1972 , Frankfurt, Germany.
Tracks 5–12 Recorded : 17 May 1973, Frankfurt, Germany.
Personnel
John Mayall – guitar, vocals, harmonica, piano
Freddy Robinson – guitar
Victor Gaskin – bass
Keef Hartley – drums
Cliff Soloman – tenor saxophone (tracks 1–4)
Red Holloway – tenor saxophone (tracks 5–12)
