(bass) and Hughie Flint (drums). The album reached number six on the UK charts. Powerfully realized, it remains the seminal British electric blues album and began a streak of Bluesbreakers classics, including A Hard Road (with Green, 1967) and Crusade (with Taylor, 1967). Mayall began a parallel solo career with the underrated The Blues Alone (1968) that ...
the Marquee Club. Their debut, the live R&B From The Marquee (1962), was the first British blues album. Yet commercial success evaded Korner, as the Rolling Stones, Bluesbreakers and other bands inspired and encouraged by him ascended. Korner remained musically active in the decades after Blues Incorporated, before dying of lung cancer in 1984. Styles & Forms ...
which was characterized by onstage fights and even damage to each other’s instruments, and it was after the drummer had ousted him from the group that Bruce joined The Bluesbreakers, and then Manfred Mann. All of which makes the two antagonists’ agreement to reunite as part of Cream quite remarkable. However, when Clapton and Baker decided to form ...
On Yonder Wall’ and ‘Shake Your Moneymaker’, but in 1963, he died from a heart attack in Chicago. His legacy lived on among British blues bands like John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and Fleetwood Mac, and American bands like The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and The Allman Brothers Band. Essential Recordings 1951 Solo: ‘Dust My Broom’ 1957 Solo: ‘It Hurts Me ...
reputation on the rough and ready Five Live Yardbirds (1964). He quit The Yardbirds in 1965 after recording their first hit, ‘For Your Love’, and joined John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton (1966) is still regarded as one of the seminal blues guitar albums, characterized by the fierce, sustained notes that Clapton created using controlled feedback. Before ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1968–present) Many fans who love Fleetwood Mac’s string of 1970s hits are unaware of their earlier blues explorations. The band came into being when guitarist Peter Green, drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie broke away from John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. In 1968, with Jeremy Spencer on second guitar, Fleetwood Mac debuted on Blue Horizon. A ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1967–95, 1997–present) Peter Green (vocals, guitar) had been a star of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, in which John McVie (bass) and Mick Fleetwood (drums) had toiled less visibly. In 1967, the three became ‘Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac’ after enlisting guitarist Jeremy Spencer. Later, a third guitarist, Danny Kirwan, was added. The outfit ...
Away With Freddy King (1961) and Freddy King Gives You A Bonanza Of Instrumentals (1965), were highly prized items among British guitarists in search of covers. Clapton’s successor in The Bluesbreakers, Peter Green, picked ‘The Stumble’, and his successor, Mick Taylor, opted for ‘Remington Ride’, while Chicken Shack’s Stan Webb picked ‘San-Ho-Zay’. Not surprisingly, King started ...
, and at the end of his life explored the music of his Central European Jewish ancestry. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Jazz & Blues Personalities | John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers | Sixties | Jazz & Blues ...
and Robert Cray, among others. Bonamassa’s influences are British and Irish blues acts. He has cited the three albums that had the biggest influence on his playing: John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton (1966), Rory Gallagher’s Irish Tour ’74 (1974) and Cream’s Goodbye (1969). He also cited Jethro Tull as one of his influences, naming Martin Barre and Mick ...
Wires album; and without a drummer for 1969’s near-acoustic The Turning Point. From the mid-1960s, his albums had been making inroads into the UK list, and his accompanying Bluesbreakers cradled many stars-in-waiting, among them guitar heroes Eric Clapton and Peter Green. Initially modest success in the States prompted an uprooting to California in 1968, and a preponderance ...
(1968), playing almost all the guitar parts on the album, which restored The Stones’ fortunes after an unconvincing flirtation with psychedelia. Jones left in 1969, replaced by former Bluesbreakers guitarist Mick Taylor, a skilled blues and jazz player. The high point of Taylor’s time in the Stones was Exile On Main Street (1972), on which his and Richards’ ...
he formed a group with some school friends that subsequently evolved into the Gods. Taylor made two singles with the band. When Eric Clapton failed to turn up for a Bluesbreakers gig in Welwyn Garden City, the 16-year-old Taylor stood in for Clapton for the second half of the set. When Peter Green left the Bluesbreakers in 1967, John ...
, was born in Hampstead, London in 1950. He studied classical guitar as a child, but had given it up by his early teens. Inspired by John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, featuring Eric Clapton, he resumed playing and teamed up with drummer Simon Kirke in the rhythm and blues band Black Cat Bones in 1966. The band often supported ...
.B. King. After Green played bass in several semi-pro outfits, keyboardist Peter Bardens invited him to play lead in his band. Three months later, he joined John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, initially filling in for Eric Clapton for three gigs and becoming permanent when the guitarist left altogether. Replacing Clapton, of whom he was a great admirer, was ...
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