John Mayall - Looking Back (Decca 1990)
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Label: Deram
Genre: British Blues
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But first an explanation. In the sixties, in England (? and elsewhere ?) artists used to go into the studio, record 2 songs, release them as a 45. If they did well, they were allowed to record an album. But the material on the 45 was rarely used on the LP release. If not, they recorded another 45. And if you didn't buy the 45, you usually never had a chance to collect that piece of music.
In America, if an artist was considered good enough to sign to a contract, they recorded an album, and tried to make a 45 from some of the tracks that were recorded. In either case, when they went into the studio to record an album, many times they would record more tracks than they needed in order to have more options when putting the final album together.
Some of the Bluesbreakers non-LP material has been released (first on vinyl, and in some cases on CD) on Looking Back, Thru The Years, So Many Roads, Rare Tracks, Volume 1 and Rare Tracks, Volume 2.
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers was a British band, that was dedicated to performing American style blues. The band was controlled entirely by John Mayall. He regularly hired and fired people for his band while trying to create a sound he could be happy with. Because of this, it seems like every time he wandered into the recording studio, he had a different collection of musicians with him. And it also seemed like he was constantly in the recording studio. Between his trying to create a specific sound, and looking for people that he thought would work well, he became more famous for the people that worked for him in his band, than for any of the material that he actually performed. This is a shame, as he recorded / released a consistent set of music that is still very listenable to this day.
You are unlikely to ever see a greatest hits package for John Mayall. While some of their recorded works were able to crack the top 100 charts, nothing ever went to number one.
Looking Back is a small compilation of some of the 45s that John Mayall's Bluesbreakers recorded between April 1964 and December 1969. This is just a straight re-release of the original vinyl release from 1969. However, it does have extended liner notes commenting on some of the band members, the tracks recorded on this release, as well as some of his other recording sessions during this period.
One of the interesting things about this release, is, that while it contains 11 tracks, they were recorded by many different versions of his band. So you can see the evolution of the sound of the band, through the rapidly changing personnel involved.
John Mayall covers a lot of older material in both his live shows and studio recordings. And when he isn't covering older tunes, he is writing similar style tunes. This re-issue doesn't list the author of the songs, but I recognize at least one as being a cover tune (Stormy Monday).
Check out track 3, Stormy Monday to see what Eric Clapton was doing between his time with The Yardbirds, and Cream. Check out track 7 It Hurts Me Too and track 8 Double Trouble to see where Fleetwood Mac would shortly be going. Check out track 9 Suspicions (part two) to see what Mick Taylor was doing before he joined the Rolling Stones. Better yet, check out some of the complete albums they worked on for a better idea of what these and other musicians were doing in their early years.
Chrome Oxide, June 1998
Tracklist
01 Mr. James
02 Blues City Shake down
03 They Call It Stormy Monday
04 So many Roads
05 Looking back
06 Sitting in the Rain
07 It Hurts Me too
08 Double Trouble
09 Suspicions (part2)
10 Jenny
11 Picture on the Wall
Personnel :
John Mayall (vc., g., organ)
Jack Bruce (bs.)
Eric Clapton (g.)
Roger Dean (g.)
Aynsley Dunbar (dms)
Mick Fleetwood (dms)
Peter Green (g.)
Keef Hartley (dms)
Dick Heckstall-Smith (tnr, sopsax.)
John McViebs)
Mick Taylor (g.)
U.S. LP edition for U.K. singles. For more precisions look at the booklet)
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