Browsing: john mayall

Mayall led like a jazz bandleader, wrote blues like a diarist, and built the Bluesbreakers as a talent engine that reshaped British blues.

How Hendrix’s London years were shaped by nights spent listening to John Mayall, Alexis Korner and Rahsaan Roland Kirk in tiny clubs like Ronnie Scott’s.

How a quiet East End guitarist walked into John Mayall’s studio, cut A Hard Road in five days and, for many ears, out-bluesed Eric Clapton.