I sure wouldn't call The Turning Point an example of "going downhill." It was a far-reaching development in popular music at the time.
In many ways, and for many reasons, this is my favorite Mayall album (but with Hard Road a close second)...
Thank you for posting this - it made fascinating reading. I just got another Mayall album the other day (Blues From Laurel Canyon - original WG Deram CD) and many more are sure to soon follow... Anything JM that's out there and not too difficult to find, needs to be in my collection.
Did we miss my favourite? I got introduced to it while I was at Wolverhampton Technical College around the time it came out.
I didn't mean to say that you said "Turning Point" was on Decca, but you said everything after the Decca period was going downhill, and I merely stated my opinion that I disagree with that statement, using the milestone and critically acclaimed album "Turning Point" as an example. It was a rhetorical question, I suppose, since we all know that it wasn't on Decca. No bad intentions on my side.
Yeah, no bad feeling. Just wanted to clarify. I see you like Grant Green. Now he was 100% all the way
Image corrected, this time showing sides 1 and 2 The 4 tracks are available on the current expanded (28 Tracks) “A Hard Road” CD; All My Life Riding On The L & N Little By Little Eagle Eye
Dang, I didn't realize the remasters from the 2000's had so many interesting bonus tracks. I already have all these albums on CD (the old Deram WG releases, and the Sundazed mono reissues), but I just had to order some of them for the bonus tracks. Who mastered the releases from 2006/2007? Was it perhaps Paschal Byrne? I often think his work is pretty good, definitely prefer his masterings over other Universal mastering engineers like Suha Gur.
The first expanded 2-cd release from 2003 had 36 (!) tracks ("Blues Masters, Remastered & Revisited" series). Suha Gur mastered this one.
This is the first Mayall album I ever heard.. It's just one of over thirty in my collection, but it's among my top three favorites.
How about you post A Hard Road and your thoughts on it, maybe we can then return to chronological order?