1. Blues Breakers - Decca 1966 Tracks:
1. All Your Love / 2. Hideaway / 3. Little Girl / 4. Another Man / 5. Double Crossing Time / 6. What'd I Say / 7. Key to Love / 8. Parchman Farm / 9. Have You Heard / 10. Ramblin' on My Mind / 11. Steppin' Out / 12. It Ain't Right
Rating : 7
2. A Hard Road - Decca 1967 Tracks:
1. A Hard Road / 2. It's Over / 3. You Don't Love Me / 4. The Stumble / 5. Another Kinda Love / 6. Hit the Highway / 7. Leaping Christine / 8. Dust My Blues / 9. There's Always Work / 10. The Same Way / 11. The Supernatural / 12. Top of the Hill / 13. Someday After a While / 14. Living Alone / 15. Looking Back* / 16. So Many Roads* / 17. Mama, Talk to Your Daughter* / 18. Alabama Blues* / 19. All My Life* / 20. Ridin' on the L&N* / 21. Eagle Eye* / 22. Little By Little* / 23. Sitting in the Rain* / 24. Out of Reach* /25. No More Tears* / 26. Ridin' on the L&N* / 27. Sitting in the Rain* / 28. Leaping Christine*
Rating : 8
3. Crusade - Decca 1967 Tracks:
1. Oh, Pretty Woman / 2. Stand Back Baby / 3. My Time After Awhile / 4. Snowy Wood / 5. Man of Stone / 6. Tears in My Eyes / 7. Driving Sideways / 8. The Death of J.B. Lenoir / 9. I Can't Quit You Baby / 10. Streamline / 11. Me and My Woman / 12. Checkin' Up On My Baby / 13. Curly* / 14. Rubber Duck* / 15. Greeny* / 16. Missing You* / 17. P?lease Don't Tell* / 18. Your Funeral, My Trial* / 19. Double Trouble* / 20. It Hurts Me Too* / 21. Suspicions 1*/ 22. Suspicions 2-*
Rating : 7
4. The Blues Alone - Ace of Clubs 1967 Tracks:
1. Brand New Start / 2. Please Don't Tell / 3. Down the Line / 4. Sonny Boy Blow / 5. Marsha's Mood / 6. No More Tears / 7. Catch That Train / 8. Cancelling Out / 9. Harp Man / 10. Brown Sugar / 11. Broken Wings / 12. Don't Kick Me
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5. Bare Wires - London 1968 Tracks:
1. Bare Wires / 2. Where Did I Belong / 3. Start Walking / 4. Open a New Door / 5. Fire / 6. I Know You / 7. Look in the Mirror / 8. I'm a Stranger / 9. No Reply / 10. Hartly Quits / 11. Killing Time / 12. She's Too Young / 12. Sandy
Rating :
6. Blues From Laurel Canyon - Decca 1968 Tracks:
1. Vacation / 2. Walking on Sunset / 3. Laurel Canyon Home / 4. 2401 / 5. Ready to Ride / 6. Medicine Man / 7. Somebody's Acting Like a Child / 8. The Bear / 9. Miss James / 10. First Time Alone / 11. Long Gone Midnight / 12. Fly Tomorrow
Rating :
7. The Turning Point - Polydor 1969 Tracks:
1. The Laws Must Change / 2. Saw Mill Gulch Road / 3. I'm Gonna Fight for You J.B. / 4. So Hard to Share / 5. California / 6. Thoughts About Roxanne / 7. Room to Move
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8. Empty Rooms - Polydor 1970 Tracks:
1. Don't Waste My Time / 2. Plan Your Revolution / 3. Don't Pick a Flower / 4. Something New / 5. People Cling Together / 6. Waiting for the Right Time / 7. Thinking of My Woman / 8. Counting the Days / 9. When I Go / 10. Many Miles Apart / 11. To a Princess / 12. Lying in My Bed
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9. USA Union - Polydor 1970 Tracks:
1. Nature's Disappearing / 2. You Must Be Crazy / 3. Night Flyer / 4. Off the Road / 5. Possessive Emotions / 6. Where Did My Legs Go? / 7. Took the Car / 8. Crying / 9. My Pretty Girl / 10. Deep Blue Sea
Rating : 6
10. Thru' the Years - Decca 1971 Tracks:
1. Crocodile Walk / 2. My Baby Is Sweeter / 3. Crawling Up a Hill / 4. Mama, Talk to Your Daughter / 5. Alabama Blues / 6. Out of Reach / 7. Greeny / 8. Curly / 9. Missing You / 10. Please Don't Tell / 11. Your Funeral and My Trial / 12. Suspicions (Part 1) / 13. Knockers Step Forward / 14. Hide and Seek
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11. Back to the Roots - 1971 Tracks:
1. Prisons on the Road / 2. My Children / 3. Accidental Suicide / 4. Groupie Girl / 5. Blue Fox / 6. Home Again / 7. Television Eye / 8. Marriage Madness / 9. Looking at Tomorrow / 10. Dream With Me / 11. Full Speed Ahead / 12. Mr. Censor Man / 12. Force of Nature / 13. Boogie Albert / 14. Goodbye December / 15. Unanswered Questions / 16. Devil's Tricks / 17. Travelling
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12. Memories - Polydor 1971 Tracks:
1. Memories / 2. Wish I Knew a Woman / 3. The City / 4. Home in a Tree / 5. Separate Ways / 6. The Fighting Line / 7. Grandad / 8. Back from Korea / 9. Nobody Cares / 10. Play the Harp
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13. Moving On - Polydor 1972 Tracks:
1. Worried Mind / 2. Keep Your Country Green / 3. Christmas 71 / 4. Things Go Wrong / 5. Do It / 6. Moving On / 7. Red Sky / 8. Reasons / 9. High Pressure Living
Rating :
14. The Latest Edition - Polydor 1973 Tracks:
1. Gasoline Blues / 2. Perfect Peace / 3. Going to Take My Time / 4. Deepdown Feelings / 5. Troubled Times / 6. The Pusher Man / 7. One of the Few / 8. Love Song / 9. Little Kitten / 10. A Crazy Game
Rating :
15. New Year, New Band, New Company - Blue Thumb 1975 Tracks:
1. Sitting on the Outside / 2. Can't Get Home / 3. Step in the Sun / 4. To Match the Wind / 5. Sweet Scorpio / 6. Driving On / 7. Taxman Blues / 8. So Much To Do / 9. My Train Time / 10. Respectfully Yours
Rating :
16. Notice to Appear - ABC 1975 Tracks:
1. Lil Boogie in the Afternoon / 2. Mess of Love / 3. That Love / 4. The Boy Must Likely to Succeed / 5. Who's Next, Who's Now / 6. Hale to the Man Who Lives Alone / 7. There Will Be a Way / 8. Just Knowing You Is a Pleasure / 9. A Hard Day's Night / 10. Oldtime Blues
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17. A Banquet in Blues - ABC 1976 Tracks:
1. Sunshine / 2. You Can't Put Me Down / 3. I Got Somebody / 4. Turn Me Loose / 5. Seven Days Too Long / 6. Table Top Girl / 7. Lady / 8. Fantasyland
Rating :
18. A Hard Core Package - ABC 1977 Tracks:
1. Rock and Roll Hobo / 2. Do I Please You / 3. Disconnected Line / 4. An Old Sweet Picture / 5. The Last Time / 6. Make Up Your Mind / 7. Arizona Bound / 8. Now and Then / 9. Goodnight Dreams / 10. Give Me a Chance
Rating :
19. Bottom Line - DJM 1979 Tracks:
1. Bottom Line / 2. Dreamboat / 3. Desert Flower / 4. I'm Gonna Do It / 5. Revival / 6. The Game of Love / 7. Celebration / 8. Come With Me
Rating :
20. No More Interviews - DJM 1979 Tracks:
1. Hard Going Up / 2. A Bigger Slice Of Pie / 3. Falling / 4. Take Me Home Tonight / 5. Sweet Honey Bee / 6. Stars In The Night / 7. Consideration / 8. Gypsy Lady / 9. Wild New Lover
Rating :
21. Road Show Blues - DJM 1981 Tracks:
1. Why Worry / 2. Road Show / 3. Mama Talk to Your Daughter / 4. A Big Man / 5. Lot and Gone / 6. Mexico City / 7. John Lee Boogie / 8. Reaching for a Mountain / 9. Baby What You Want Me to Do
Rating :
22. Return of the Bluesbreakers - Aim 1985 Tracks:
1. An Eye for an Eye / 2. The Same Old Blues / 3. Rock 'n' Roll Kitchen / 4. Rock It in the Pocket / 5. Keep on Rollin' / 6. My Time After Awhile / 7. Ridin' on the Santa Fe / 8. Howlin' Moon / 9. You Never Can Be Trusted / 10. Lookin' for Willie
Rating :
23. Chicago Line - Island 1988 Tracks:
1. Chicago Line / 2. Gimme One More Day / 3. One Life to Live / 4. The Last Time / 5. Dream About the Blues / 6. Fascinatin' Lover / 7. Cold Blooded Mama / 8. The Dirty Dozens / 9. Tears Came Rollin' Down / 10. Life in the Jungle
Rating :
24. Archives to Eighties - Polydor 1989 Tracks:
1. Accidental Suicide / 2. Force Of Nature / 3. Boogie Albert / 4. Television Eye / 5. Prisons On The Road / 6. Home Again / 7. Mr. Censor Man / 8. Looking At Tomorrow / 9. Blue Fox / 10. Devil's Tricks / 11. Marriage Madness / 12. Dream With Me / 13. My Children
Rating :
25. A Sense of Place - Island 1990 Tracks:
1. I Want to Go / 2. Congo Square / 3. Send Me Down to Vicksburg / 4. Without Her / 5. Sensitive Kind / 6. Jacksboro Highway / 7. Let's Work Together / 8. I Can't Complain / 9. Black Cat Moan / 10. Sugarcane / 11. All My Life
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26. Wake Up Call - Silvertone 1993 Tracks:
1. Mail Order Mystics / 2. Maydell / 3. I Could Cry / 4. Wake Up Call / 5. Loaded Dice / 6. Undercover Agent for the Blues / 7. Light the Fuse / 8. Anything I Can Say / 9. Nature's Disappearing / 10. I'm a Sucker for Love / 11. Not at Home / 12. Ain't That Lovin' You Baby
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27. Cross Country Blues - One Way 1994 Tracks:
1. Rock 'n Roll Kitchen / 2. Rock It in the Pocket / 3. An Eye for an Eye / 4. Rise Again / 5. Keep on Rollin' / 6. The Same Old Blues / 7. Black Cat Moan (1981) / 8. A Long Long Way (1981) / 9. A Long Long Way (1984) / 10. High Rollin' Man / 11. Lonely Feelings / 12. Ridin' on the L & N / 13. My Babe / 14. Muddy Waters Blues / 15. Maggie's Boy / 16. Italiano Style / 17. Black Cat Moan (1984)
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28. Spinning Coin - Silvertone 1995 Tracks:
1. When the Devil Starts Crying / 2. Spinning Coin 4:39 / 3. Ain't No Brakeman / 4. Double Life Feelings / 5. Run / 6. What Passes for Love / 7. Fan the Flames / 8. Voodoo Music / 9. Long Story Short / 10. No Big Hurry / 11. Remember This
Rating :
29. Blues for the Lost Days - Silvertone 1997 Tracks:
1. Dead City / 2. Stone Cold Deal / 3. All Those Heroes / 4. Blues for the Lost Days / 5. Trenches / 6. One in a Million / 7. How Can You Live Like That / 8. Some Other Day / 9. I Don't Mind / 10. It Ain't Safe / 11. Sen-Say-Shun / 12. You Are for Real
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30. Padlock on the Blues - Eagle 1999 Tracks:
1. Don't Turn Your Back / 2. Padlock on the Blues
/ 3. A Hard Road / 4. Somebody's Watching / 5. Always a Brand New Road / 6. My Country Girl / 7. The Strip / 8. I've Got to Talk to You / 9. Dancing Shoes / 10. Bad Dream Catcher / 11. When the Blues Are Bad / 12. Ain't No Surrender / 13. White Line Fever
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31. Along for the Ride - Eagle 2001 Tracks:
1. A World of Hurt / 2. Along for the Ride / 3. Put It Right Back / 4. That's Why I Love You So / 5. Yo Yo Man / 6. If I Don't Get Home / 7. Testify / 8. Early in the Morning / 9. Something About My Baby / 10. So Many Roads / 11. World War Blues / 12. California / 13. She Don't Play by the Rules
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32. Stories - Eagle 2002 Tracks:
1. Southside Story / 2. Dirty Water / 3. Feels Just Like Home / 4. Kids Got the Blues / 5. The Witching Hour / 6. Oh, Leadbelly / 7. Demons in the Night / 8. Pride and Faith / 9. Kokomo / 10. Romance Classified / 11. I Wished I Had / 12. Pieces and Parts / 13. I Thought I Heard the Devil / 14. The Mists of Time
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33. Road Dogs - Eagle 2005 Tracks:
1. Road Dogs / 2. Short Wave Radio / 3. So Glad / 4. Forty Days / 5. To Heal the Pain / 6. Burned Bridges / 7. Snake Eye / 8. Kona Village / 9. Beyond Control / 10. Chaos in the Neighbourhood / 11. You'll Survive / 12. Awestruck & Spellbound / 13. With You / 14. Brumwell's Beat / 15. Scrambling
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34. In the Palace of the King - Eagle 2007 Tracks:
1. You Know That You Love Me / 2. Going Down / 3. Some Other Day, Some Other Time / 4. Palace of the King / 5. I'd Rather Be Blind / 6. Time to Go / 7. Big Legged Woman / 8. Now I've Got a Woman / 9. I Love You More Every Day / 10. Help Me Thorugh the Day / 11. Cannonball Shuffle/ 12. You've Got Me Licked / 13. King of the Kings / 14. Living on the Highway
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35. Tough - Eagle 2009 Tracks:
1. Nothing to Do With Love / 2. Just What You're Looking For /b 3. Playing With a Losing Hand / 4. An Eye for an Eye / 5. How Far Down / 6. Train to My Heart / 7. Slow Train to Nowhere / 8. Numbers Down / 9. That Good Old Rockin' Blues / 10. Tough Times Ahead / 11. The Sum of Something
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36. A Special Life - Forty Below 2014 Tracks:
1. Why Did You Go Last Night / 2. Speak of the Devil / 3. That's All Right / 4. World Gone Crazy / 5. Floodin' in California / 6. Big Town Playboy / 7. A Special Life / 8. I Just Got to Know / 9. Heartache / 10. Like a Fool / 11. Just a Memory
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37. Find a Way to Care - Forty Below 2015 Tracks:
1. Mother in Law Blues / 2. The River’s Invitation / 3. Ain’t No Guarantees / 4. I Feel So Bad / 5. Find a Way to Care / 6. Long Distance Call / 7. I Want All My Money Back / 8. Ropes and Chains / 9. Long Summer Days / 10. Drifting Blues / 11. War We Wage / 12. Crazy Lady
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38. Talk About That - Forty Below 2017 Tracks:
1. Talk About That / 2. It's Hard Going Up / 3. The Devil Must Be Laughing / 4. Gimme Some of That Gumbo / 5. Goin' Away Baby / 6. Cards on the Table / 7. I Didn't Mean to Hurt You / 8. Don't Deny Me / 9. Blue Midnight / 10. Across the County Line / 11. You Never Know
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39. Nobody Told Me - Forty Below 2019 Tracks:
1. What Have I Done Wrong / 2. The Moon Is Full / 3. Evil and Here to Stay / 4. That's What Love Will Make You Do / 5. Distant Lonesome Train / 6. Delta Hurricane / 7. The Hurt Inside / 8. It's So Tough / 9. Like It Like You Do / 10. Nobody Told Me
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40. The Sun is Shining Down - Forty Below 2022 Tracks:
1. Hungry and Ready / 2. Can't Take No More / 3. I'm As Good As Gone / 4. Got to Find a Better Way / 5. Chills and Thrills / 6. One Special Lady / 7. A Quitter Never Wins / 8. Deep Blue Sea / 9. Driving Wheel / 10 The Sun Is Shining Down
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Essential Albums!
Original albums as listed and rated on “Rate Your Music” - October 25 - 2013
19 Blues Breakers - 1966
30 The Turning Point - 1969
50 A Hard Road - 1967
57 Blues From Laurel Canyon - 1968
101 Crusade - 1967
180 Bare Wires - 1968
231 The Blues Alone - 1967
323 USA Union - 1970
320 Back to the Roots - 1971
608 Thru the Years - 1971
569 Empty Rooms - 1970
827 Moving On - 1972
869 The Latest Edition - 1973
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October 25 - "rateyourmusic.com"
My Suggestion For a 80 minutes (app.) Best Of Compilation 1966-83: ( More tracks will be added )
1. All Your Love ( Rush ) Blues Breakers
2. Hideaway ( King/ Thompson ) Blues Breakers
3. What'd I Say ( Charles ) Blues Breakers
4. Key to Love ( Mayall ) Blues Breakers
5. Steppin' Out ( Frazier) Blues Breakers
6. The Stumble ( King/ Thompson ) A Hard Road
7. Top of the Hill ( Mayall ) A Hard Road
8. Greeny ( Green ) Crusade
9. Vacation ( Mayall ) Blues From Laurel Canyon
10. Walking On Sunset ( Mayall ) Blues From Laurel Canyon
11. Fly Tomorrow ( Mayall ) Blues From Laurel Canyon
12. Room To Move ( Mayall ) The Turning Point
13. It Hurts Me Too ( LOndon ) Crusade
14. Rambling on My Mind ( Johnson ) Blues Breakers
15. Crawling Up the Hill ( Mayall ) Thru' the Years
16. Looking Back ( Mayall ) A Hard Road / EP 1966
17. You Don't Love Me ( Mayall ) A Hard Road
18. Missing You ( Green ) Crusade
19. Out of Reach ( Green ) A Hard Road*
20. The Same Way ( Green ) A Hard Road
21. Sitting in the Rain ( Mayall ) A Hard Road*
22. Snowy Wood ( Mayall/Taylor ) Crusade
23. Double Trouble ( Mayall ) Crusade
24. The Supernatural ( Green ) A Hard Road
25. Nightflyer ( Mayall ) USA Union
LINKS:
The Official John Mayall