Essentially John Mayall

Performer: John Mayall
Distributor: Fontana Distribution

Notes: This five-CD collection features a variety of recordings from the latter years of the godfather of British blues, including 2001's all-star ALONG FOR THE RIDE, which features contributions from Jonny Lang, Steve Miller, Billy Gibbons, and Mick Fleetwood, among others. There's also a live CD of his 70th birthday concert, which includes performances from Mayall alumni Mick Taylor and Eric Clapton, and a set of previously unreleased recordings dating from his 1960s Bluesbreakers days, featuring Clapton, Taylor, and Peter Green, through to the 1990s.

Like most British blues fanatics in the early '60s, John Mayall took his cues primarily from the stars of Chicago's electric blues scene. Both with the Bluesbreakers and later on his own, Mayall played a large role in introducing white audiences to electric blues. He was a leader in the emerging blues-rock movement, and his bands were an early proving ground for a number of future stars--Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce of Cream, Mick Taylor of the Rolling Stones, and Peter Green, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac.

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