Mayall, John | Hard Road | CD

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers is a group named after the 1966 album Blues Breakers by John Mayall with Eric Clapton. Its line ups, along with members of Blues Incorporated, had an influence on the early British electric blues scene and later on progressive fusion and popular rock. Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce later joined Cream, while Peter Green, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood formed Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, which later evolved into Fleetwood Mac without Green.

This is a 1 CD album reissue of A Hard Road, the 1967 album by John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, issued in Europe by Decca and released on 23 October 2006. The disc has 28 tracks, including 14 tracks added to the original album, among them singles, BBC session recordings and tracks from an EP. Peter Green sings and plays lead guitar, John McVie plays bass, Aynsley Dunbar plays drums, and Alan Skidmore, Johnny Almond and Ray Warleigh play reeds, with Mike Vernon credited as producer. The recordings were made at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, London, in 1966 and 1967.

Track List

1. A Hard Road
2. It's Over
3. You Don't Love Me
4. The Stumble (Live 1995)
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
12. Top of the Hill
13. Someday After a While (You'll Be Sorry)
14. Living Alone
15. (Bonus Track) Looking Back
16. (Bonus Track) So Many Roads
17. (Bonus Track) Mama, Talk to Your Daughter
18. (Bonus Track) Alabama Blues
19. (Bonus Track) All My Life
20. (Bonus Track) Ridin' On the L and N
21. (Bonus Track) Eagle Eye
22. (Bonus Track) Little By Little
23. (Bonus Track) Sitting in the Rain
24. (Bonus Track) Out of Reach
25. (Bonus Track) No More Tears
26. (Bonus Track) Ridin' On the L and N
27. (Bonus Track) Sitting in the Rain
28. (Bonus Track) Leaping Christine