John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers : As It All Began
and the
Bluesbreakers
1964-69
John Mayall
and the
Bluesbreakers
were an English
blues rock band,
Led by singer, songwriter,
and multi-instrumentalist
John Mayall, OBE. Mayall
used the band name
between 1963 and 1967,
but then dropped it for
some fifteen years.
However, in 1982
a 'Return of
the Bluesbreakers'
was announced,
and the name was in use
until the band again
dissolved in 2008,
to be resurrected
again in 2009.
The name has become generic,
without a clear distinction
between recordings
that are to be credited to
Mayall alone and recordings
that are to be credited to
Mayall and his band.
The Bluesbreakers
have included musicians
such as:
- Eric Clapton (April–August 1965, November 1965–July 1966)
- and Jack Bruce, both later reuniting in Cream
- Peter Green (July 1966-July 1967),
- who departed with Mick Fleetwood (April–July 1967)
- and then also enticed original bassistJohn McVie
- a few weeks later to form Fleetwood Mac
- Mick Taylor (summer 1967–July 1969),
- who later joined the Rolling Stones,
- and reunion tours in 1982–83 and 2004
- Harvey Mandel, Walter Trout,
- Larry Taylor
- (Mandel, Trout and Taylor left Canned Heat to join Mayall)
- Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Randy Resnick, Aynsley Dunbar
- Dick Heckstall-Smith, Tony Reeves
- and Jon Hiseman (later of Colosseum)
- Andy Fraser (Free),
- Chris Mercer (Juicy Lucy),
- Henry Lowther, Johnny Almond
- and Jon Mark (later of Mark-Almond)
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