Live From Austin Texas
John Mayall
Engineer: Billy Lee Myers,Jr., David Hough,
Producer: Gary Briggs, Cameron Strang, Jay Woods
New West Records, 2007
1 CD
Catalogue #: NW6134
EAN: 0607396613427
UPC: 607396613427
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Personnel: John Mayall (vocals); Coco Montoya (vocals, guitar); Rick Cortes (vocals, bass guitar); Joe Yuele (drums).
Additional personnel: David Grissom (guitar).
John Mayall gets the star treatment in this installment of the fantastic LIVE FROM AUSTIN series, which features uncut performances from perhaps the greatest live televised music showcase ever, Austin City Limits. Throughout his career, Mayall has been more famous as a picker and pruner of talent--among the ranks of his famed Bluesbreakers stood Peter Green, Eric Clapton, and Mick Taylor--than as a bluesman in his own right, but here he challenges all comers with a confident set of blues classics and self-penned numbers, plus a wildly effusive stage persona. The set was originally recorded on September 13, 1993.
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John Mayall
Like most British blues fanatics in the early '60s, John Mayall took his cues primarily from the stars of Chicago's electric blues scene. Both with the Bluesbreakers and later on his own, Mayall played a large role in introducing white audiences to electric blues. He was a leader in the emerging blues-rock movement, and his bands were an early proving ground for a number of future stars--Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce of Cream, Mick Taylor of the Rolling Stones, and Peter Green, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac.
