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1 day ago · July 24, 2024. John Mayall’s legacy of great guitarists: The father of British blues, who died this week at age 90, is remembered in testimonials from Robben Ford, Rick Vito, Coco Montoya, Buddy Whittington, Carolyn Wonderland, and others from his post-Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and Mick Taylor years. Dan Forte also looks at Mayall’s ...
1 day ago · John Mayall, who has died aged 90, played a major role in bringing the blues music of the black ghettos to white America, by way of Manchester and London; however, his fame was eclipsed by that of ...
1 day ago · By Andy Kahn Jul 24, 2024 • 6:18 am PDT. Photo by Christina Arrigoni. John Mayall, “The Godfather Of British Blues,” has died at age 90. The legendary musician died “peacefully in his ...
1 day ago · In 1984 he formed yet another incarnation of the Bluesbreakers with the American guitarists Coco Montoya and Walter Trout and the drummer Joe Yuele. The new band revived the classic Bluesbreakers sound with the albums Behind the Iron Curtain (1986), Chicago Line (1988) and A Sense of Place (1990).
2 days ago · John Mayall, the British blues-rocker whose bands included top musicians, died at 90, months from his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
2 days ago · On his first new album in four years (and first new U.S. release in seven years), John Mayall reclaims the “Bluesbreakers” name for the first time in 18 years to highlight a quintet featuring two lead guitarists, Coco Montoya and Walter Trout, along with a rhythm section of Bobby Haynes (bass), and Joe Yuele (drums).
2 days ago · Back in May of 2000 I interviewed American bluesman Alvin Youngblood Hart while he was touring behind his third album, the Jim Dickinson-produced Start With the Soul. That disc saw Hart rocking out more than on his previous releases, one of which, Territory , won a DownBeat magazine award for best blues album of the year.
