John Mayall has always been viewed as a musical father figure. Already in his thirties when the British blues invasion swept England and the U.S., Mayall provided the fertile soil from which the influential young guitarists Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor, and Peter Green would grow before moving on to define the sounds of their own generation of music. That is why it seems fitting that the seventy-three year old singer and multi-instrumentalist – still as active as ever – would take time to look back and pay his respects to the man who played a similar role for Mayall.
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