The Masters
John Mayall
Eric Clapton, Peter Green, John McVie, Aynsley Dunbar
Eagle Records (USA), 2008
2 CD
Catalogue #: ER20130-2
EAN: 0826992013022
UPC: 826992013022
You save: 20%
Personnel includes: John Mayall (vocals, guitar, slide guitar, harmonica, Hammond organ, tambourine, mouth percussion); John Mark (acoustic finger-style guitar); Mick Taylor, Peter Green, John McVie, Eric Clapton (guitar); Johnny Almond (flute, alto & tenor saxophones, mouth percussion); Steve Thompson (bass); Aynsley Dunbar, Collin Allen (drums).
Compilation producers: Tom Newman, Peter Gibson.
Includes liner notes by Chris Welch and Alex Hooper.
Digitally remastered by Tom Newman (1998).
Tracklist
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.
Eric Clapton
Over the course of four decades, Eric Clapton has carried the British blues legacy into the mainstream of pop music. From his mid-1960s days with the Yardbirds and John Mayall, through his years as guitar god with Cream and Blind Faith, and eventually to his more laid-back solo albums, Clapton has remained one of rock's most successful musicians. Given his guitar-superstar status, Clapton has played alongside the biggest musical acts of the 20th century, from soloing on the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," to performing at the Band's LAST WALTZ, to recording an album with B.B. King. Overcoming numerous setbacks and tragedies, old Slowhand has settled nicely into a long and prolific career.
Peter Green
Although Fleetwood Mac is best known for the mellow rock of RUMORS and TUSK, the quintessential '70s L.A. band started out as a British blues-rock powerhouse led by guitar genius Peter Green. After a stint in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Green formed Fleetwood Mac with the sidemen of the title, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. After a mere three albums of quintessential Brit blues, Green left to explore the darker regions of LSD culture. Though he returned to music in the '70s, and continued to record and tour sporadically into the '90s, it's been said by many that Green never really came back from those trips. Nonetheless, Peter Green is known to this day for having perhaps the most sweet and supple tone of any blues guitarist, British or otherwise.
