UNIVERSAL SET TO RELEASE 4CD JOHN MAYALL RETROSPECTIVE

Universal will be releasing a 4CD 75 track John Mayall set covering his Decca and Polydor years including singles, live tracks, mono versions, instrumentals and much more.

Tracklisting:

Disc 1
1. Crawling Up A Hill Version 1
2. Mr. James
3. When I’m Gone
4. R&B Time
5. Runaway
6. What’s The Matter With You
7. Crocodile Walk
8. Blues City Shake Down
9. I’m Your Witchdoctor
10. Telephone Blues
11. Bernard Jenkins (Mono Album Version)
12. On Top Of The World
13. They Call It Stormy Monday Live
14. Have You Ever Loved A Woman Live Version
15. All Your Love Mono
16. Double Crossing Time Mono
17. Steppin’ Out Mono Instrumental
18. What’d I Say Mono
19. Key To Love Mono
20. Parchman Farm Mono
21. Looking Back
22. So Many Roads
23. Long Night
24. Dust My Blues
25. The Stumble

Disc 2
1. You Don’t Love Me
2. It’s Over
3. The Super-Natural
4. Sitting In The Rain
5. Ridin’ On The L And N
6. All My Life
7. Double Trouble
8. Suspicions Part One
9. Oh Pretty Woman
10. Snowy Wood
11. Checkin’ Up On My Baby
12. No More Tears
13. Brand New Start
14. Picture On The Wall
15. Look In The Mirror
16. No Reply
17. Hartley Quits
18. 2401 Single Version
19. Walking On Sunset
20. Medicine Man
21. Miss James
22. Fly Tomorrow

Disc 3
1. The Laws Must Change
2. California
3. Room To Move
4. Sleeping By Her Side
5. Don’t Waste My Time
6. Something New
7. Waiting For The Right Time
8. Counting The Days
9. Off The Road
10. Crying
11. Nature’s Disappearing
12. Accidental Suicide (Album Version)
13. Prisons On The Road (Album Version)
14. Unanswered Questions (Album Version)

Disc 4
1. Television Eye (Album Version)
2. Memories
3. Nobody Cares
4. Good Times Boogie
5. Got To Be This Way
6. Mess Around
7. Country Road
8. Moving On
9. Things Go Wrong
10. High Pressure Living
11. Driving Till The Break Of Day (Album Version)
12. Burning Sun
13. Little Kitten
14. Gasoline Blues

Source: Universal Music

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JOHN MAYALL ‘THE 70th BIRTHDAY CONCERT’ ON BLUE-RAY WITH EXTRAS

On 29 June 2009, Eagle Rock Entertainment release “The 70th Birthday Concert” [Cat No ERBRD5032] from John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers and Friends. Liverpool’s King’s Dock on 19 July 2003 was the venue for a long awaited and much anticipated reunion between Eric Clapton and John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers. The occasion was both a celebration of John Mayall’s 70th year and a fundraiser for Unicef. This Blu-ray shows the show in all its glory. Eagle was the first visual music company to embrace High Definition and their commitment to the new technology continues with new additions to their Blu-ray catalogue.

Also invited to the party were former Bluesbreaker and Rolling Stone Mick Taylor and veteran trombonist Chris Barber. Eric Clapton appears on eight of the nineteen numbers performed, with Mick Taylor guesting on a further six. If you’re a lover of the blues it doesn’t get much better than this. The show ran for around two and a half hours and the film is now presented here in its entirety for the first time. Thus, the Bonus Features on this Blu-ray release include three tracks from the concert that had to be cut from the original DVD issue for space reasons [Grits Ain’t Groceries, Jacksboro Highway and California]. The release also features an interview with John Mayall.

TRACKLISTING

1. Southside Story
2. Kids Got The Blues
3. Dirty Water
4. Somebody’s Acting Like A Child
5. Blues For The Lost Days
6. Walking On Sunset
7. Oh, Pretty Woman 
8. No Big Hurry
9. Please Mr Lofton
10. Hideaway
11. All Your Love
12. Have You Heard
13. Hoochie Coochie Man
14. I’m Tore Down
15. It Ain’t Right 
16. Talk To Your Daughter

Seven decades, sixteen tracks and one hundred and sixty minutes of entertainment combine to make this a fantastic release documenting one incredible evening of stunning music. The DVD version of this release is a hugely successful title from Eagle’s catalogue and this brand new Blu-ray release allows the concert not only to look and sound better than ever on but also to be returned to its full length with the addition of the never before seen footage.

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3 RARE JOHN MAYALL POLYDOR ALBUMS DUE ON CD VIA LEMON

Three previously unreleased John Mayall albums from the seventies are being issued on cd on 23 March by Lemon in the UK.

Ten Years Are Gone is a double album by John Mayall, recorded at Sunset Sound, Los Angeles and released in 1973. Like it’s predecessors Jazz Blues Fusion and Moving On,it featured Freddy Robinson on Guitar and Blue Mitchell on Trumpet. For the first time on CD this sought after John Mayall album is avaialble, endorsed a by John himself, he has contributed a new interview for the notes.

Freddy Robinson
- guitar & vocal
John Mayall
- piano, guitar, harmonica, vocals (on all
tracks except 6. which is sung by Freddy Robinson)
Victor Gaskin
- bass
Keef Hartley
- drums
Blue Mitchell
- trumpet & flugelhorn
Sugarcane Harris
- violin
Red Holloway
- alto & tenor saxophone, flute

DISC ONE
1. TEN YEARS ARE GONE
2. DRIVING TILL THE BREAK OF DAY
3. DRIFTING
4. BETTER PASS YOU BY
5. CALIFORNIA CAMPGROUND
6. UNDECIDED
7. GOOD LOOKING STRANGER
8. I STILL CARE
9. DON’T HANG ME UP

DISC TWO
10. INTRODUCTION
11. SITTING HERE THINKING
12. HARMONICA FREE FORM
13. BURNING SUN
14. DARK OF THE NIGHT
2CD

Moving On is a live album by John Mayall, recorded at the Whiskey A Go Go, Los Angeles on the 10th of July 1972 with the aid of Wally Heider’s Mobile Recording Truck. For the first time on CD this sought after John Mayall album is available, endorsed a by John himself and he has contributed a new interview for the notes describing the making of this seminal work.

Freddy Robinson
- lead guitar
Larry Taylor
- bass guitar
John Mayall
- vocals, piano, guitar, harmonica
Victor Gaskin
- bass
Keef Hartley
- drums
Blue Mitchell
- trumpet
Fred Jackson
- baritone & tenor saxophone
Ernie Watts
- tenor saxophone
Clifford Solomon
- alto & tenor saxophone

1. WORRIED MIND
2. KEEP YOUR COUNTRY GREEN
3. CHRISTMAS 71
4. THINGS GO WRONG
5. DO IT
6. MOVING ON
7. RED SKY
8. REASONS
9. HIGH PRESSURE LIVING

The Latest Edition title makes a virtue of necessity, as John Mayall introduces another all-new line-up Two guitarists, High Tide Harris and Randy Resnick, lead the band in more of an uptempo R&B style than has been used in much of Mayall’s music during the past several years, starting with the timely Gasoline Blues (1974 was the year of the gas lines, remember?) and going on to Troubled Times (which advises impeaching President Nixon).
For the first time on CD this sought after John Mayall album is available, endorsed a by John himself, and he has contributed a new interview for the notes.

Randy Resnick Guitar
Soko Richardson Drums
Hi Tide Harris Guitar
Larry Taylor Bass
John Mayall Guitar, Main Performer,
Vocals, Harmonica, Keyboards
Red Holloway Saxophone

1. GASOLINE BLUES
2. PERFECT PEACE
3. GOING TO TAKE MY TIME
4. DEEPDOWN FEELINGS
5. TROUBLED TIMES
6. THE PUSHER MAN
7. ONE OF THE FEW
8. LOVE SONG
9. LITTLE KITTEN
10. A CRAZY GAME

Source: Lemon/Cherry Red

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Ten Years Are Gone
Moving On
The Latest Edition