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THE AYNSLEY DUNBAR RETALIATION

Of the numerous British blues-rock bands to spring up in the late '60s, the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation 

was one of the better known, though solid reception on tours did not translate into heavy record sales. 

Musically, the group recalled John Mayall's Bluesbreakers during the 1966-1967 era 

that had produced that group's A Hard Road album, though with a somewhat more downbeat tone. 

The similarities were hardly coincidental, as the band's founder and leader, drummer Aynsley Dunbar, 

had been in the Bluesbreakers lineup that recorded the A Hard Road LP. 

Too, bassist Alex Dmochowski would go on to play with Mayall in the 1970s, and guitarist Jon Morshead 

was friendly with fellow axeman Peter Green (also in the Bluesbreakers' A Hard Road lineup), 

whom he had replaced in Shotgun Express

"TO MUM, FROM AYNSLEY AND THE BOYS"

[Worldwide release as "To Mum, From Aynsley and the Boys", it was published in UK as "Retaliation"]

1969     LP     BLUE THUMB RECORDS      STEREO   BTS 16

PRINTED IN U.S.A.    ORIGINAL PRESSING

SINGLE SLEEVE

THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

This version: on front cover & labels "To Mum, From Aynsley and the Boys".

On spine "Retaliation".

Track B1 is spelled on cover: Down, Down, Down.

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LABEL: BLUE THUMB -  LIGHT GREY LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) BTS 16  

Catalog on labels: BTS 16 (5031) / BTS 16 (5032)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): 5031-1B

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): 5032-1B

On labels: Produced by John Mayall

All songs published by Lupus Music, Inc., BMI.

rim text reads "Blue Thumb Records, Inc. - Beverly Hills, Calif."

On Back Sleeve: Cover/Hypgnosis

All titles by Lupus Music

BAM-BAM

tracklisting

Side A: DON'T TAKE THE POWER AWAY - RUN YOU OFF THE HILL

LET IT RIDE - JOURNEY'S END

Side B: DOWN DOWN AND DOWN - UNHEARD

SUGAR ON THE LINE - LEAVING RIGHT AWAY

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RECORD NEAR EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Dunbar had expressed some interest in moving further afield from the blues-rock format 

around the time the record was done, and the addition of keyboardist Tommy Eyre 

(from the Grease Band) to the lineup was one step in that direction. The enlistment 

of John Mayall as producer was perhaps another step in attempting to refine their sound. 

Still, much of To Mum, From Aynsley and the Boys is pretty standard late-'60s 

British blues-rock, in line with the previous two albums by the band. Eyre does 

inject some of the arrangements with a jazzy, more R&B feel, particularly on 

"Leaving Right Away" and the instrumental "Unheard," the latter of which sounds 

like a rock band trying to do modern jazz and finding themselves a bit out of their depth. 

You also hear the quintet trying to stretch boundaries a little with the eerie, trumpet-overlaid 

intro to "Don't Take the Power Away," which has the downcast ambience 

typical of quite a bit of the Victor Brox-sung Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation material. 

There's also some exceptionally funereal organ in the march-plodding instrumental 

"Journey's End." Otherwise, though, much of this is rather-run-of-the-mill, 

if always well played, British blues-rock...(AllMusic)