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Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton Remastered
Extra Tracks, Remastered
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Track Listings
1 | All Your Love |
2 | Hideaway |
3 | Little Girl |
4 | Another Man |
5 | Double Crossing Time |
6 | What'd I Say |
7 | Key to Love |
8 | Parchman Farm |
9 | Have You Heard |
10 | Ramblin' on My Mind |
11 | Steppin' Out |
12 | It Ain't Right |
13 | Lonely Years |
14 | Bernard Jenkins |
Editorial Reviews
Included in this newly remastered edition are two bonus tracks.. "Lonely Years," and "Bernard Jenkins," the two sides of a rare single recorded by John Mayall and Eric Clapton for Mike Vernon's fledgling blues label Purdah prior to the recording of this album.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 4.88 x 5.51 x 0.47 inches; 3.46 ounces
- Manufacturer : Polydor
- Item model number : 2002557
- Original Release Date : 2001
- Date First Available : February 9, 2007
- Label : Polydor
- ASIN : B00005K9QP
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,132 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #1 in Harmonica Blues
- #4 in Modern Blues (CDs & Vinyl)
- #9 in Electric Blues
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The session was done at a loud- "club-like" sound level which perplexed the sound engineers. The distortion of the Marshall amp with the Les Paul was augmented by the sound engineers to make something really unique. The up front guitar of Clapton was something also never heard before (even with the Butterfield Band). This made it really different than Chicago Blues which tended to blend in overdriven tube amps with vocals and amplified harps. What a great and inspirational sound. This was the thing the caused Hendrix to take Blues to a different level and finally a different genre!
Time is the great equalizer of all music, classical, jazz, blues, folk, it doesn't matter. This album still sounds good, but because it has been emulated by all blues-rockers for the last 40 years it can sound stale to the newcomer, oldcomer, or someone who has just heard it and notices it sounds "familiar" now. Also the tracks are not of uniform brilliance, after all it was just a hiped up night club set that they recorded. Clapton says that his recollection of the session was unpacking, playing, packing up and leaving. This shows to some degree how much we owe to Mike Vernon and the production team.
The highlight of the set is usually ascribed to "Have You Heard", very interestingly redone on the 70th Birthday Concert DVD. However, the original had added horns and some B.B. King style licks from Clapton-something he got more and more into to the present day and he did even more of at the Birthday Concert. The fat and thick sound is the best part of this tune. Also it was an original Mayall penned tune. All of the best tunes on this LP were originals except for Hideaway. Clapton's rendition of the Freddie King's masterpiece took this tune to a new level-something similar to Stevie Ray Vaughan's rendition of Larry Davis' "Texas Flood". It became an old tune with a new sound and style. This is the number, to me, that changed the Blues to Blues-Rock!
The other two classic tunes on this LP are the highly underrated and double-tracked "Double Crossing Time", supposedly about Jack Bruce. It is Mayall's greatest minor key blues, better than "The Death of J.B. Lenoir". The feeling in Clapton's guitar is unsurpassed. The other tune is "Little Girl" with its Jimmy Reed updated rock groove. Clapton does his best solo on this tune with precise bends over a difficult beat to keep up with. Walter Trout also did a good version of this tune with Mayall in the 1980s.
The rest of the record is classic. The band itself was very good with Hugie Flint on drums and John McVie on the bass. Mayall made his international reputation with this disc and it has lasted to this day, he became the "Godfather of British Blues" because of this sound-and remember it was replicated (or tried to be replicated on his next 3 or 4 records). However, it does have some filler with tunes such as What I Say (the Brits loved Ray Charles) with a Day Tripper riff in part of it. And I never could understand why Mayall, who was only ever an average harp player, would do Little Walter's "It Ain't Right". However, this CD, with bonus cuts is essential for anyone who wants to understand the transition of the Blues into the evolution of Rock, Acid Rock, Metal and so on. It is truly a classic recording.
If you are a fan of R&B, blues or rock and have never heard this album, then prepare to have your mind blown. The original 1966 Blues Breakers: Eric Clapton just prior to forming "Cream", anchored by the great John Mayall, usually referred to as "The Father of British Blues". With John McVie on bass (who moved on to become the "Mac" of Fleetwood Mac) and Hughie Flint on drums, you have the perfect tight, energy-filled R&B line-up from the mid-sixties.
(There is a guest appearance by Dennis Healey on trumpet - not the Dennis Healey who was later to become UK Finance Minister, surely? He was definitely a musician. Anyone know for sure?)
Even after the passage of decades, these numbers sound crisp and fresh and will have you dancing round the room. I have the original vinyl album from 1966, and the CD is better. The sound is crisper and deeper, and there are two bonus tracks - "Lonely Hearts" and "Bernard Jenkins."
Clapton's guitar solo in the middle of "Key to Love" remains for me the quintessential example of the perfect 60-second solo: tight, disciplined, fast, virtuoso, clean, imaginative, pushing the main theme and, jazz-style, bringing it back to the root with perfect timing.
The music of The Blues Breakers has been endlessly imitated, covered, extended, and used as a benchmark by thousands of bands world wide for the past 44 years.
But it's never, ever been equalled.
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El nombre del grupo ya lo dice todo John Mayall & Eric Clapton!!!.
Una super banda inglesa con el blues con guitarras eléctricas tocadas con un gusto exquisito