After leaving the Yardbirds, and before forming Cream, Eric Clapton joined John Mayall's Bluesbreakers just long enough to make an album. But what an album that was! Apart from covers of Magic Sam, Freddie King etc, there were some good Mayall originals including 'Have You Heard?' This track is a tour de force for Clapton and, for a lot of people, myself included, this was the best work of his whole career. He plays like a man possessed and, after the track is finished, you are left drained at the intensity of the playing. It was this album that started the British Blues Boom of the 1960's and led the way for other bands such as Led Zeppelin and the original Fleetwood Mac and Chicken Shack etc. some of whom went on to great fame and fortune. The album is still available but now you get the original mono mix together with the same tracks in a stereo mix on the one c.d Do yourselves a favour, if you haven't got it, get it now!
Monday, December 14, 2009
Bluesbreakers
After leaving the Yardbirds, and before forming Cream, Eric Clapton joined John Mayall's Bluesbreakers just long enough to make an album. But what an album that was! Apart from covers of Magic Sam, Freddie King etc, there were some good Mayall originals including 'Have You Heard?' This track is a tour de force for Clapton and, for a lot of people, myself included, this was the best work of his whole career. He plays like a man possessed and, after the track is finished, you are left drained at the intensity of the playing. It was this album that started the British Blues Boom of the 1960's and led the way for other bands such as Led Zeppelin and the original Fleetwood Mac and Chicken Shack etc. some of whom went on to great fame and fortune. The album is still available but now you get the original mono mix together with the same tracks in a stereo mix on the one c.d Do yourselves a favour, if you haven't got it, get it now!
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