John Mayall - Lots Of People: Live From The Roxy In Los Angeles

Year: 1977
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:08
Size: 102,2 MB
Styles: Blues
Scans: Full

1. Spoken Intro By Red Holloway (0:18)
2. Changes In The Wind (4:02)
3. Burning Down (5:06)
4. Play The Harp (5:31)
5. A Helping Hand (7:29)
6. I Got To Get Down With You (4:34)
7. He's A Traveling Man (4:34)
8. Seperate Ways (5:51)
9. Room To Move (6:39)

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.

In America at least, Mayall continued to be pretty popular in the early '70s. His band was no more stable than ever; at various points some American musicians flitted in and out of the Bluesbreakers, including Harvey Mandel, Canned Heat bassist Larry Taylor, and Don "Sugarcane" Harris. Although he's released numerous albums since and remained a prodigiously busy and reasonably popular live act, his post-1970 output generally hasn't matched the quality of his '60s work. /Excerpts from John Mayall bio by Richie Unterberger, AllMusic

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