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Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton | 
| Artist: John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
Label: Decca - Pop
Category: Music
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 20900
Format: Box Set, Deluxe Edition, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 132
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 602498418017
EAN: 0602498418017
ASIN: B000HT34Q6
Release Date: November 6, 2006
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | All Your Love | | • | Hideaway | | • | Little Girl | | • | Another Man | | • | Double Crossing Time | | • | What'd I Say | | • | Key To Love | | • | Parchman Farm | | • | Have You Heard | | • | Ramblin' On My Mind | | • | Steppin' Out | | • | It Ain't Right | | • | All Your Love | | • | Hideaway | | • | Little Girl | | • | Another Man | | • | Double Crossing Time | | • | What'd I Say | | • | Key To Love | | • | Parchman Farm | | • | Have You Heard | | • | Ramblin' On My Mind | | • | Steppin' Out | | • | It Ain't Right |
Disc 2
| • | Crawling Up A Hill | | • | Crocodile Walk | | • | Bye Bye Bird | | • | I'm Your Witchdoctor | | • | Telephone Blues | | • | Bernard Jenkins | | • | Lonely Years | | • | Cheatin' Woman | | • | Nowhere To Turn | | • | I'm Your Witchdoctor | | • | On Top Of The World | | • | Key To Love | | • | On Top Of The World | | • | They Call It Stormy Monday | | • | Intro - Maudie | | • | It Hurts To Be In Love | | • | Have You Ever Loved A Woman | | • | Bye Bye Bird | | • | Hoochie Coochie Man |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Amazing June 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Superb album, some great songs and god knows how many moments that send a real chill down the spine. Also has some of Clapton's best playing including a fantastic Les Paul sound, which became the "woman tone" that has influenced who knows how many people. Great songs, great playing, great voices - a genuine, complete classic.
Mr Spice not so nice......and wrong again!!! January 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have to agree with all other favourable reviews that the Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton is still a landmark in popular music.
And to add to mr. Roger Dean and mr. David Arturovitch's reviews I can add another mistake in mr Spice's review. Yes, it is true that Mayall took meticulous notes of recording dates, gigs, personnel etc. but all of that was destroyed when his house burned down in 1979. This means that there's no way of going back than to hope that the recording company kept some kind of recording log incl. personnel. Unlikely I think, the way popmusic was regarded in the early sixties.
The definitive British Blues album May 15, 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
OK, it was all a copy and Clapton certainly wasn't god, but this is about as good as it gets for British rock music. Incidentally, I also think the reveiwer who damned Mr Dean with faint praise was wrong. The Bluesbreakers were more than Eric Clapton and Crawling Up A Hill is a very original number in the Brit blues repertoire. Let's hear it for all those who've made up the Bluesbreakers over the years.
Un spice- the-cat April 28, 2007
22 out of 24 found this review helpful
Well Mr Spice,
I don't think much of your review, this recording has nothing whatever to do with me. I did not do any BBC work with John, and even if I had, I would certainly expect more than one rotten star !!
And your next album release is ?
Roger Dean (Bluesbreakers guitarist 1964)
 Great Album, Disappointing Reissue December 12, 2006
23 out of 44 found this review helpful
Another attempt to issue the definitive edition of the legendary Bluesbreakers album that falls slightly short of the mark. The mono and stereo mixes on disc 1 are excellently done but simply replicate the single disc issue featuring the same material released a few years ago. This, therefore, sheds no new light on this fertile period of the second British blues boom. Disc 2 features some BBC sessions along with the familiar Immediate and Purdah 45's and half a dozen live tracks, in poor sound quality, that have been available before.
This is a big disappointment and is a missed opportunity which could have been avoided if the compilers had made any attempt to research the easily available archive information from this time. John Mayall himself was known to have kept meticulous records of sessions, gigs, personnel and recording dates and I'm sure would have been more than happy to contribute his knowledge in order to preserve his legacy in the best possible manner.
Anyone expecting to hear more of Clapton's stunning guitar work from this time is in for a big disappointment. Many of the songs from the BBC sessions presented here have nothing more than rhythm guitar low in the mix. This is the case with the first three songs on disc 2 and despite the session date given being after the point where Clapton joined the band, I suspect it was actually recorded earlier with Roger Dean on guitar. The three songs from the October 25th session are from the time when Clapton had taken a sabbatical and had been replaced by Geoff Krivit. The third BBC session featured on the disc includes only two songs out of at least five, and possibly six, which are known to have been recorded with Clapton, one of which being the instrumental, Hideaway. This session has been bootlegged in excellent sound quality and so it's omission from this set is inexcusable.
All in all the "Deluxe" edition does nothing to enhance the importance and excitement of this classic album and the poor selection of additional material on disc 2 turns what should have been a worthy project into a complete waste of time and money. Five stars for the original album - 1 star for this reissue
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