John Mayall

Rolling Stone (1/20/72, p.54) - "...John Mayall's Bluesbreakers were simply the best-ever white British blues band..."

Big British Blues Daddy John Mayall was left at home when that first wave of Britain's
rockers fell into the hungry hands of American teendom like some flight of delicious
decadent foreign birds. In those days the blues were still a minority taste, so John played
the pubs and the clubs and the college halls where beat intellectuals grooved on the
esoterics of The Blues and had to admit that yes, John had done his homework,... More >