John Mayall - Rolling with the Blues

Title: Rolling with the Blues Artist: John Mayall Release Date: 11/15/2005 Re-Released On: 11/10/2003 Label: Shakedown Records Album Type(s): live UPCs: 802644902722, 0828291311632 Genre: Blues Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Blues-Rock, Electric Harmonica Blues, British Blues, Regional Blues Moods: Freewheeling, Gritty, Organic, Rollicking, Confident, Earnest, Rousing, Swaggering, Aggressive, Boisterous, Dramatic, Earthy, Passionate, Reverent, Rowdy, Amiable/Good-Natured, Exuberant, Yearning, Brooding, Playful, Raucous, Stylish Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 2 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 3

1. Band Introduction [Narrative]
2. Got You on My Mind
3. No Smoking
4. No Holds Barred
5. Band Intro [Narrative]
6. Feels Good in Frankfurt
7. Next Time Around
8. Freddie's Request [Narrative]
9. Sad to Be Alone
10. Red Presents Blue Mitchell [Narrative]
11. Filthy McNasty
12. Make My Bed Tonight

1. Mexico City
2. Gone from the Canyon
3. Caught in the Middle
4. John Lee Boogie
5. Emergency Boogie
6. Rolling with the Blues
7. Howlin' Moon
8. Room to Move
9. Sitting Here Alone
10. The Stumble

1. John Mayall Interview [DVD][*]

Year Type Label Catalog # 2003 CD Shakedown Records 116 2003 CD Shakedown Records 116

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Rolling with the Blues chronicles seven John Mayall concerts played between 1972 and 1982. Mayall had given up trying to maintain and support a regular backing group by the early '70s, and was instead working with different configurations for specific gigs. For the 1972 Frankfurt show that opens this two-disc set (a third disc is a DVD interview with Mayall from 2002), Mayall works with a lineup of Keef Hartley on drums, Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Clifford Solomon on sax, Freddy Robinson on guitar, and Victor Gaskin on upright bass. Red Holloway replaces Solomon on sax for a second show in Frankfurt a year later in 1973. A 1980 show in Huntington Beach, CA, finds James Quill Smith on guitar. Two 1982 concerts, one in Minneapolis and one in Chicago, feature John McVie of Fleetwood Mac on bass, while two shows in Italy later in the year, one in Rome and one in Lugo, sport a stripped-down lineup of Mick Taylor, Steve Thompson, and Colin Allen. For all these personnel differences, the sound is remarkably consistent and the live recordings are quite balanced, although things red-line occasionally and now and then there are some obvious dropouts, but nothing too serious. Among the highlights are the over 12-minute jazz blues "Got You on My Mind" and a scuffling "No Holds Barred" from the 1972 Frankfurt show and an appropriately ragged John Lee Hooker homage, "John Lee Boogie," from the 1980 Huntington Beach performance. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

Name Credits Blue Mitchell Trumpet Clifford Solomon Sax (Tenor) Colin Allen Group Member, Drums David Redfern Cover Photo Denis Blackham Mastering Freddy Robinson Guitar James Quill Smith Guitar Jet Martin Celmins Interviewer, Sleeve Notes John Mayall Photo Archivist, Vocals, Group Member, Harmonica, Guitar, Piano John McVie Group Member, Bass (Electric), Bass Keef Hartley Drums Mick Taylor Guitar, Group Member Peter Moody Coordination Red Holloway Saxophone Soko Richardson Drums Victor Gaskin String Bass