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February 10, 1999

John Mayall Dominates the Solo Stage

Grand Collaborator Proves Solo Mettle
February 9, 1999

John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers

The Key Club, Los Angeles, February 7, 1999

Recordings and Reviews

Along for the Ride

John Mayall has always been best known by the company he keeps -- Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor and Jack Bruce, after all, served stints in his Bluesbreakers. Keeping that in mind, the fact that his latest disc boasts more special guests than a Master P album seems less like Santana-esque career despera...

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Biography

A bit of an eccentric -- in his early days he favored a curious nine-string guitar, and later he sported a kind of caveman loincloth (on Blues From Laurel Canyon) -- John Mayall is the great pedagogue of British blues. The bands he has led function as schools of the form, tutoring young hopefuls in the now-arcane arts of Sonny Boy Williamson and J. B. Lenoir; graduates include such luminaries as...

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