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Blues Breakers |  | Artists: John Mayall, Eric Clapton
Label: Deram/Polygram
Category: Music
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 2608
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 75 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 766484908828
EAN: 0766484908828
ASIN: B0000249ZZ
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | All Your Love | | • | Hideaway | | • | Little Girl - John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers | | • | Another Man | | • | Double Crossing Time | | • | What'd I Say | | • | Key To Love | | • | Parchman Farm | | • | Have You Heard | | • | Ramblin' On My Mind | | • | Steppin' Out | | • | It Ain't Right | | • | All Your Love - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers | | • | Hideaway | | • | Little Girl | | • | Another Man | | • | Double Crossing Time | | • | What'd I Say | | • | Key To Love | | • | Parchman Farm | | • | Have You Heard | | • | Ramblin' On My Mind | | • | Steppin' Out | | • | It Ain't Right |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 24
 Life Changing... February 15, 2006
29 out of 29 found this review helpful
I first listened to this disc as a fifteen year-old and music was never the same thereafter. I started hunting straight away for the original US musicians who had inspired first Mayall and then the unbelievably young Clapton. And I'm still listening to the fruits of that search. Meantime it opened me up to the expanding British Blues scene and subsequently other new British genres, all the way from Fleetwood Mac and Chicken Shack, to The Groundhogs, Steeleye and Fairport. The music itself is quite simply inspired, mainly by the fusion of the very different talents of the individuals involved. I'm not sure that Mayall ever wrote, sang or played as well again 'though Clapton went on to far greater things. Just listen to Track 5, Double Crossin' Time, written by the both of them, which displays their different talents perfectly. This disc is one of those very rare seminal recordings which brings as much pleasure now as on the day it came off the presses.
One of the best ever British blues albums February 13, 2002
Bob Heath (wolverhampton UK)
46 out of 47 found this review helpful
Although John Mayall used a series of lead guitarists for his Bluesbreakers band in the 60s and 70s, including Peter Green and Mick Taylor, it was Clapton who really shone, as his guitar talent had already been formed with the Yardbirds. However, this is not an Eric Clapton album, as the main performer, and band leader, was Mayall himself who was an experienced and exciting blues player. Additionally, strong backing support was provided on bass guitar by John McVie (later Fleetwood Mac) and Hughie Flint on drums to what is going on out front. This one of the two best Mayall recordings, and Clapton features very strongly throughout. Indeed, his work here is probably stronger than the later Cream recordings. This is essential rhythm and blues from a period when good R & B bands were a dominant feature of the UK music scene (Rory Gallagher; Victor Brox: etc), and where Mayall represented the pinnacle. If you like blues and/or Clapton do not miss this one.
The most important guitar album of all time! February 8, 2007
thegdog (London)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
The best guitar player of the time on top of his game. Classic tracks. The perfect combination of guitar and amp. Incredible solos... Listening to this album it is easy to see why rock took the directions it did. This is the blueprint for pretty much every rock/blues album that followed, and in my opinion the closest Clapton ever got to this ever again is on Layla... This is Essential.
sheer tone July 7, 2005
S. Roberts (London, United Kingdom)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is the album that launched the Gibson Les Paul + Marshall amp combination that has defined the sound of rock for so long. It is worth buying for that alone. Absolute, pure, smooth but crunchy, toney goodness! Thankfully, the music is top notch, ranging from the energetic opener to the instrumental "Steppin Out", to the drum solo and tribute to the Beatles' "Day Tripper" on "What'd I Say?". Excellent stuff.
Guitar Heaven By Eric Clapton! December 15, 2002
Nicholas Aleshin (Ellicott City, MD United States)
62 out of 67 found this review helpful
Few albums have had greater impact than the landmark John Mayall With Eric Clapton "Blues Breakers." Released by the Decca label in Britain on 22 July 1966, literally days after Clapton quit the Bluesbreakers and just a week before Cream's debut, it went all the way to #6, a pretty mean feat since Mayall's band had never had a hit single. This may have been a first in Britain.Of course, this is the album that set the blues and guitar worlds aflame and established Eric Clapton's name worldwide as the most passionate of musical interpreters. If you haven't yet heard "Beano" (as the album is affectionately known, because Clapton is pictured reading "The Beano" comic book on its cover), then you ain't heard nuthin' yet! From the album's first notes, you realize that you're in guitar heaven, as "Slowhand" shows us the way electric guitar can and should be played. Clapton's virtuoso playing is white-hot throughout. Playing with maturity beyond his 21 years, the young Eric Clapton was so influential that Gibson eventually reissued the (out-of-production since 1960) Les Paul model guitar, which Clapton then played. John Mayall's Bluesbreakers served--and still serves today--as a finishing school for great musicians and sidemen (Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, John McVie, Jack Bruce, Aynsley Dunbar, Mick Fleetwood, Coco Montoya and others). Mayall's proselytizing the blues (he's 69 years old!), his songwriting skills, and his other musical talents should not be ignored nor taken lightly.
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