John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers: In the Palace of the King

Posted by Drew in Old Stuff on 29. Apr, 2007 | 0 Comments

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 [...]


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    I've been playing the guitar ever since I was 17 years old, when, upon hearing a local Cleveland DJ refer to an Allman Brothers tune as "real gone blues," my life -- and views on music -- changed forever. Since then, I've played in bands, practiced, jammed with friends in college, practiced, dragged my guitar across the country, and practiced. I need to practice more.

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