Track Listing

1. A Hard Road
2. It's Over
3. You Don't Love Me
4. The Stumble
5. Another Kinda Love
6. Hit The Highway
7. Leaping Christine
8. Dust My Blues
9. There's Always Work
10. The Same Way
11. The Super-Natural - John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, Mike Vernon, Gus Dudgeon
12. Top Of The Hill
13. Someday After A While (You'll Be Sorry)
14. Living Alone
15. Looking Back - John Mayall, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, Mike Vernon
16. So Many Roads
17. Mama, Talk To Your Daughter
18. Alabama Blues
19. All My Life
20. Ridin' On The L And N
21. Eagle Eye - John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, Mike Vernon
22. Little By Little
23. Sitting In The Rain
24. Out Of Reach
25. No More Tears - John Mayall, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Mike Vernon
26. Ridin' On The L And N - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
27. Sitting In The Rain
28. Leaping Christine - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2684 in Music
• Released on: 2006-10-30
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .23 pounds
• Running time: 78 minutes

Album Description
The Blues Breakers album from 1967 has been Digitally Remastered and now comes complete with 14 Bonus Tracks including singles, BBC sessions and 4 tracks taken from the John Mayall's Blues Breakers with Paul Butterfield EP.

See John Mayall live throughout October and November on a 37 date tour of the UK.

Customer Reviews

A classic - with one little quibble
This is a real classic among British blues albums, and it's nice to have it remastered on CD.

Those whose acquaintance with or interest in John Mayall is limited to the "Beano" album would do well to give this a listen. Okay, it doesn't have God's blistering guitar work, but Mayall's songwriting is stronger, the ensemble playing is punchier and tighter, and the arrangements have more variety than on the Clapton album. And of course you get the rapidly burgeoning talents of Peter Green.

There are some real gems among the bonus tracks too, such as Peter Green's brilliant solo rendition, soaked with blues feeling, of J B Lenoir's bitter and outspoken "Alabama Blues," and the four tracks with the virtuoso harmonica playing of Paul Butterfield. But why, oh why, couldn't they have included the wonderful single "Double Trouble" / "It Hurts Me Too," the best single Mayall made with Peter Green and possibly ever? I'm afraid the omission has cost this otherwise excellent album its fifth star.

Highly recommended all the same, if you like British blues.

Greatest blues guitar solo ever?
A great album - primarily because of Peter Green's guitar playing. The Supernatural is clearly the precursor to Albatross but this album is special primarily because it contains the best recorded blues guitar solo ever on The Stumble. Amazing....not one note that doesn't take its place perfectly - and delivered with the easy skill of a true maestro. (Even BB King has paid tribute to Green's astonishing talent).

Smoking!
There's something about late 60s London that will always capture my imagination. Austin Powers aside, its an incredibly rich period in our cultural history that produced some remarkable pieces of music and film. This recording is right up there with other more famous examples. I've long wanted to pursue the early phase of Peter Green's recording career, after hearing a brief snatch of his guitar work many years back. I finally did some searching on Amazon and was pleased to find this re-release, which looked like an excellent sampler of his work with Mayall. I was not disappointed. Hard Road is a stone classic IMO and has that awesome British Blues sound that aficianados of this sound will recognise immediately. Do not hesitate to grab this if you are on the fence - it's worth every penny and based on this material Peter Green should be considered the equal of his considerably more famous colleague, Mr Eric Clapton.