• Track Listing

As the doyen of UK blues, Mayall featured an incomparable litany of future rock stars on his albums and his stages, and you’ll hear them here. This set not only includes all the albums from Mayall’s early years, but also an abundance of previously unreleased recordings. Let’s start with the rarities. The unreleased 28 BBC tracks feature Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor and the recently departed Peter Green. Those join unreleased recordings from seven gigs (detailed below but stretching from 1967–70 and covering the U.S., England and Germany). Returning to the albums you’ll find here: this box includes "John Mayall Plays John Mayall," "I’m Your Witchdoctor/Telephone Blues," "Lonely Years/‘Bernard Jenkins’," "Blues Breakers" (in mono and stereo plus bonus cuts), "All My Life" (EP), "A Hard Road," "Crusade," "The Blues Alone," "The Diary of a Band Vols. 1 & 2," "Bare Wires," "Blues from Laurel Canyon," "Looking Back," "The Turning Point," "Empty Rooms," "USA Union," "Back to the Roots," "Thru the Years," "Memories," "Jazz Blues Fusion," "Moving On," "Ten Years Are Gone" and "The Latest Edition," all remastered. You’ll encounter rising UK stars as well as revered American musicians on those albums: Clapton, Taylor and Green plus John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Keef Hartley, Aynsley Dunbar, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Paul Butterfield, Red Holloway, Sugarcane Harris, Blue Mitchell, Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor and more. On the 1964–68 BBC tracks: Clapton, Taylor, Green, Hartley, McVie and Heckstall-Smith as well as Jack Bruce (songs include "Parchman Farm," "Big Town Playboy," "Crawling Up a Hill," "Hideaway," "All Your Love," "Little Girl," "The Last Time," "Oh, Pretty Woman," "Rock Me Baby," "Suspicions," "Sweet Sixteen" and more). You’ll hear Mayall, Green, McVie and Fleetwood (the core of Fleetwood Mac…a tight unit, indeed) at Bromley Technical College (’67): "Looking Back," "Brand New Start," "Stand Back Baby" and more. Further live 1967 performances (including a bunch at the 7th National Jazz & Blues Festival at Windsor) feature the Fleetwood Mac three plus Taylor and Hartley: "Chicago Line," "San-Ho-Zay," "Bad Boy," "Curly," "It’s My Own Fault," "I Can’t Quit You Baby" and more. Live recordings from Gothenburg, Bremen and Berlin (’68 and ’69), with Taylor, include "Oh Baby," "2401," "Worried About You," "Baby Child," "Treat Me This Way" and more. Finally, you’ll venture to the hallowed Fillmore West (1970) to hear "Honey Hush," "What’s the Matter with You," "Everybody Wants to Know" and more. The hardback book contains rare photos and memorabilia plus a full gig listing for the period. That joins an individually signed photo, a fan-club book full of letters and correspondences, two replica posters and a replica press pack. Only 5000 copies of this big beauty exist; get yours now to hear all these albums and unheard hours by the Godfather of British Blues and his famous partners-in-crime! Pre-order now to guarantee your copy. Shipping in February 2021. Madfish.