Ramblings about My Records
Okay, my big challenge with this one is: Where am I gonna file it? I don’t sort things on my shelves by “various artists.” I think when I slipped it in the M’s, my...
My 1990s – my fourth decade – were filled with the things that used to occupy one’s 30s: building a career, buying a home, building a family, maybe settling into my place in the...
Ahh, this one’s a little bittersweet. Early in 2022, John Mayall released his 36th studio album, “The Sun Is Shining Down.” He was 88 years old when he recorded this, and, as seems to...
This one’s an oddity in my collection – not by any means for the artist or the genre, but for the way I came by it. Nearly everything I’ve collected has either been from...
Once I started in on Mayall, just a few decades after first learning about him, I was all in. Shortly after picking up Moving On, I found this copy of Jazz Blues Fusion in...
I’m not sure how, in my early years of collecting, I formed an opinion of John Mayall and his bands without actually ever hearing them – but I did. And in those days, when...
On the previous album, “The Turning Point,” John Mayall stripped his band down to four players, and no drummer. For this 1971 album, Mayall took it a step further, just a trio with Larry...
A couple of years back, I wrote about my late discovery of John Mayall. (Well, isn’t that the theme of this blog? My late discovery of nearly everyone?) At that time, my discovery that...
When it time to clear this from my new acquisitions shelf, I realized that I hadn’t played it much, and thought that was at least in part because when I got it, my wife...
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