John Mayall – The Sun Is Shining Down
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...
Category: Blues
John Mayall – A Banquet In Blues
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...
John Mayall – Jazz Blues Fusion
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...
John Mayall – Thru The Years
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...
John Mayall – Memories
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...
John Mayall – The Turning Point
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...
Harvey Mandel – Get Off In Chicago
This is a brand new addition to my collection, just within the past few weeks – a gift from my record-store owning friend for some minor favors I did him. While I don’t have any...
Living Chicago Blues – Vols. 1-6
Sometime in the around 1991, I picked up a CD on Alligator, “Living Chicago Blues, Vol. 4.” Most likely I got it at the old Records ‘n’ Such in Stuyvesant Plaza, which had a...
Lightnin’ Hopkins – Lightnin’ Strikes
Here’s another really heavyweight reissue by Lightnin’ Hopkins – I mean, the cardboard has a weight not seen since the early ’60s. Very sturdy gatefold. Verve was always oriented toward quality production, and seems...
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