John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers A Hard Road LP 1967 Aust Decca stereo Peter Green
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John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers A Hard Road LP 1967 Australia Decca stereo Peter Green
Original Australian stereo pressing on Decca in flipback sleeve
A Hard Road is the third album (and second studio album) recorded by John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers released in 1967. It features Peter Green on lead guitar, John McVie on bass, Aynsley Dunbar on drums and John Almond. Tracks 5, 7 and 13 feature the horn section of Alan Skidmore and Ray Warleigh. Peter Green sings lead vocals on "You Don't Love Me" and "The Same Way". The notable instrumental track "The Supernatural", a guitar improvisation in the key of D minor, has much in common with Peter Green's later hit composition "Black Magic Woman".
The album reached #8 on the UK album charts which is Mayall's third biggest chart next to "Bare Wires" and "Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton" which reached #3 and #6, respectively.
The cover art and the original LP sleeve design are by Mayall.
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John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers are a pioneering English blues band, led by singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist John Mayall, OBE. Mayall used the band name between 1963 and 1967, but then dropped it for some fifteen years. However, in 1982 a 'Return of the Bluesbreakers' was announced and the name was in use until the band again dissolved in 2008, to be resurrected again in 2009. The name has become generic, without a clear distinction which recordings are to be credited just to the leader, or to leader and his band. The Bluesbreakers have included musicians such as:
Eric Clapton (April–August 1965, November 1965–July 1966) and Jack Bruce, both later reuniting in Cream,
Peter Green (July 1966-July 1967) departed with Mick Fleetwood (April–July 1967) and then also enticed original bassist John McVie a few weeks later to form Fleetwood Mac,
Mick Taylor (August 1967–July 1969) who later joined The Rolling Stones, and reunion tours in 1982–83 and 2004,
Harvey Mandel, Walter Trout, Larry Taylor (Mandel, Trout and Taylor left Canned Heat to join Mayall),
Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Randy Resnick, Aynsley Dunbar,
Dick Heckstall-Smith, Tony Reeves and Jon Hiseman (later of Colosseum),
Andy Fraser (Free), Chris Mercer (Juicy Lucy), Henry Lowther, Johnny Almond and Jon Mark (later of Mark-Almond).
Side one
"A Hard Road" – 3:12
"It's Over" – 2:51
"You Don't Love Me" (Willie Cobbs) – 2:50
"The Stumble" (Freddie King, Sonny Thompson) – 2:54
"Another Kinda Love" – 3:06
"Hit the Highway" – 2:17
"Leaping Christine" – 2:25
Side two
"Dust My Blues" (Elmore James, Joe Josea) – 2:50
"There's Always Work" – 1:38
"The Same Way" (Peter Green) – 2:11
"The Supernatural" (Green) – 2:57
"Top of the Hill" – 2:40
"Someday After a While (You'll Be Sorry)" (King, Thompson) – 3:02
"Living Alone" – 2:23
CONDITION:
SLEEVE: VG+ to EX— Minor shelf wear; writing on back; some spotting; spine and flipbacks in good shape
RECORD: EX+ Minor lines and scuffs under strong light; spindles around hub
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