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| ARTIST: | John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Polygram Records |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Oh, Pretty Woman, Stand Back Baby, My Time After Awhile, Snowy Wood, Man of Stone, Tears in My Eyes, Driving Sideways, Death of J.B. Lenoir, I Can't Quit You Baby, Streamline, Me and My Woman, Checkin' up on My Baby |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 042282053725 |
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Customer Reviews of Crusade
Down At The Bare Wires I bought this album on vinyl for £1 in 1970 in a second hand shop in Glasgow where the manageress didn't know what it was worth. I thought I had won the pools and when I played it I realised I had. The intensity and tightness of Mick Taylors guitar was far from the disappointment which those of us who had followed the Bluesbreakers through the 60s expected in the aftermath of Clapton and Green. I get the impression that my fellow reviewers are late arrivals to the Bluesbreakers unlike myself. However, if they listened to John's 70th Birthday album, Taylor is far and away the only musician on it who doesn't sound tired - he is as crisp and clean as ever, without having lost any of the passion of it. Crusade is not the best Bluesbreakers album but there is something about it (the indignation and grit that goes with any crusade maybe?) which gives it a diamond-like quality. It also contains in it the heritage(Guy, Rush, Williamson) so dear to Mayall and the religious light shines from it. Listen to 'Checkin on My Baby' and see if it wouldn't blow anybody (except maybe Walter Trout - another old Bluesbreaker) off the map. If you hear this as your first Bluesbreakers album you will probably buy them all through time. I have.
What makes a "great" album?
Fully agree with Tyler Smith's review - this is the most under-rated album of John Mayall's career. It builds on the sinuous anguish of its predecessor 'A Hard Road', even though the line-up has greatly changed and Peter Green is gone.
Amusing that Mayall's promise (on the rear sleeve of 'A Hard Road') that he wouldn't use brass was broken on his very next release. But it works, and I have long thought of these two albums as a pair - though 'The Blues Alone' was released around the same time, I think.
So, is it a great album or just a good one? In the absence of any real criteria for the use of these terms, I'm happy to call it great - it's always provided some thrills for me , notably the impassioned 'Death of JB Lenoir' and the skin tight groove of 'Pretty Woman'.
It was all downhill after that, and though he had his moments on 'Bare Wires' and 'Blues from Laurel Canyon', it's true that his predilection for "confessional" lyrics makes you wince. But on 'Crusade' there's none of that, and compared with the material he was to put out when he left Decca for Polydor, it's entirely above reproach. Even next to the immortal 'A Hard Road', this one more than holds its ground. Highly recommended.
A John Mayall and Mick Taylor must
This 1967 album is still one of my favourites. Half the tracks are Mayall originals, half are blues 'standards'. The album highlights Mick Taylor's guitar and also some horm based blues. My original reaction to this album was rejection because of the horns, but I rediscovered it years later. It is not the best Mayall album, but it still has many memorable moments. I am a Mayall diehard of the original Bluesbreaker offering, Hard road and everything since 'Sense of Place'. See 'Life in the Jungle' for the best Mayall album.