Bluesbreakers

Track 3 - Little Girl. In which a 33 year old John Mayall is claiming he'll make a troubled 18 year old his was creepy as fuck. You can say that the past is a different country, but that part of the past was an absolute shithole. As for the rest of the album. It was decent enough fun. Just about a four star, but I'm taking a point off for the creepy sex pest song.

I havent finished the album, but i really loved the album. I love how it mixed jazz, country and hard rock at the same time. It's euphoric, it's powerfull, and it's awesome.

Solid blues, nice sound. 7/10

neloš bluz rok, svaki član je na mjestu. druga strana malo zamornija od prve, sve u svemu solidno no ništa izvanredno [odslušao i napisao 13/10/26]

It's amazing how time can change your perspective because, if I had heard this back in the late 90s or early 2000s, I probably would have been a huge fan. Hearing it now, though, it's definitely a product of its time, almost like a time capsule. Overall, it's a very worldly, smooth downtempo album with the atmosphere of a rainforest. It's pretty much the type of album you'd listen to on a dark, cold, rainy night in the year 2000.

White boy blues. Not really fun or interesting, and taking space from more appropriate artists to appear on this list for the same genre. Not worth it and tiring to listen to.

Talented group here, but instead of listening to this, check out instead the artists that they imitated: Muddy Waters, Lightning Hopkins, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Robert Johnson...

no thanks. junkyard dog music about being an ephebophile

has all the classic Clapton guitar sounds and riffs.

Not for me

Blues! The bluesiest blues to ever blues. I had it on while working in the office and it was a fine time but nothing really stood out. Solid album experience if blues are what you’re looking for.

Sounds a lot like Cream...I wonder why...

Blues breaking fun' with John and the gang

Tröttsam standardblues med riktigt svag sång

Inte direkt min grej och svårt att inte bli lite extra negativ pga Clapton heller.

Tråkigt.

Oh cool. Crusty blues rock from the sixties, but with horns. Yaaawnn.

This is fine.

Oh, you want me to listen to 4 white guys, one of whom is Eric Clapton, noodle away on their instruments and try to sound like black guys from Mississippi? No thanks.

Not my thing but it exceeded expectations.

Hugely influential, and I liked listening to it. Always wonder about rights and royalties and appropriation when it comes to guys like this, Led Zeppelin, Yardbirds, etc. But based on a solid minute of research I just did, it seems like there's some sentiment (including, maybe, by B.B. King) that Mayall's championing the blues was a net benefit to Black American blues artists.

3/5 - Giving this points for the 60s context and what came after. Some brits played some blues, and then more brits played more derivative blues thereafter. This led to hard rock and monster trucks, which Americans love.

Ok - clearly musically very talented - great guitar etc - just doesn’t really massively grab me

No amount of extraordinary playing can overcome the fact that this is somehow still largely as dry as dirt.

Good listen. Good songs. Likes the songs where it was like a melody of a few songs put together. 4 out of 5.

Track 3 - wonderfully sinister, in a rather “it was different times” way

I liked how this sounds and listened to it twice in a row.

Easy bluesy

Today I learned the term "culture vulture".

Amen, det är ju bra grejer!

I hold this album directly responsible for the rise of "Boomer Blues". A genre dominated by old white guys with brand-new Les Paul guitars who can competently finger a minor pentatonic scale over a I-IV-V progression. They claim to have "studied" Robert Johnson, been the first to carve "Clapton is God" on a brick wall, discovered John Mayer, and seen Joe Bonamassa at the local music shop buying all the vintage Fender amps they had. They can only achieve an erection while playing "Sweet Home Chicago" next to a harmonica player that no one knows, but just showed up and started making a racket all over the place. They are sure that their band is gonna break out if they could just find a female lead singer that can do Led Zeppelin songs.

Love it own it.

Okay wow, this was far better than I anticipated it being. Blues is always such a jam!

I get why this was a super influential album and there are some good songs but also some weird vibes. 3.5/5

blues guapo

quite nice

There's just nothing remotely special about this album, Clapton plays the guitar well but there's plenty of records you can hear that, there's no need to sit through an album of perfectly fine yet utterly boring blues.

Some solid slow blues, a few poorly aged lyrics here and there and some boring tracks, but mostly groovy throughout. Standouts are All Your Love, Hideaway, Have You Heard and Steppin’ Out.

I was prepared to like this having never heard it but knowing it was a foundational part of blues rock. It's alright. Eric Clapton is one artist that I enjoy less as I age when I thought it was supposed to be the opposite.

Erster Titel, erste Takte: Cream :-D Vielleicht war das Album wegweisend für den Blues-Rock und Clapton war damals Gott. Für mich klingt das heute abgenudelt und generisch.

Great blues sound. Love the album. 5/5

idk it's blues, I would've given it a 3 but the reviews are scathing so i'm giving it a 2 xd

Hats off to John Mayall as a leader and talent scout. Picking out Mick Taylor, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green and most notably here, Eric Clapton, makes Mayall a mini Art Blakey. As a leader, Mayall cedes the spotlight to the greater talent to allow Clapton to deliver a reputation making performance. Clapton adds forcefulness and buoyancy to his playing that foreshadowed his work with Cream as well as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and countless other worshipping hard rock bands. He played with a supercharged jump R&B groove that sounds like a truck doing 75mph on a bumpy road. The riffs bounce off the road during “It Ain’t Right” and “Hide Away.” They lay down an arena rock worthy version of “Steppin Out” that is one of my favorite guitar songs. Clapton had a fuller and cleaner sound than his Yardbirds and Cream work. Playing at a rapid pace, the whole band has a frenetic energy. While not a great singer, Mayall’s high, shouting voice matches the energy of the band, even as he fails to do justice to Ray Charles’ vocals on “What I’d Say.” He comes close to blues imitator, but has enough restraint and originality to make his mark. The sound quality takes a leap from The Yardbirds first records to give these songs the necessary jolt. Other guitar albums surpass this one, but the “Beano” record laid the foundation for many of them.

Вот эти пацаны На самом деле альбом точно нужно заценить перед смертью Ведь мужики раздавали еще до Хендрикса

Some nice white man’s blues tracks. Doesn’t quite have the depth of feeling as other blues albums around but I like it nonetheless. 4 stars?

I think this is the second album I’ve listened to from this list that features a “Day Tripper” interpolation. It was one of the first riffs I learned on guitar, so I get it. It’s fun to play. It’s pretty good. Enjoyable enough blues with enough variety to keep me engaged. It ranks higher on the Clapton-related albums I’ve listened to (but it’s no ‘Disraeli Gears’). Picks up steam in the second half when horns get involved. It’s still about 10 minutes too long for what it is; I got ear fatigue about halfway through, and this album isn’t even that long. This isn’t the only album from this time that does this, but man I hate “little girl” as a term of endearment. Yuck. Misogyny is alive and well in the world today, but at least we don’t do that shit anymore.

Exactly as blue as I thought this would be.

Eric Clapton is a racist and a rapist and this album reflects on that. The music itself didnt do me any good, so i’m going to give this two stars, as it didn’t piss me off too much.

Chicago Blues played by the British. It's electric, blues-rock from the 1960s and it sounds exactly like I expected and didn't stray much lyrically and musically from the template (even the tracks with additional instrumentation). "Oh, we are paying tribute to a tradition" — what a conservative take on the genre. Furthermore, this record is additional evidence of Clapton as captain competent. He's a bland guitarist. Even as he demonstrates he has chops for days, his playing rarely inspires.

nice

I'm not really into the blues anyway, but then you give me Eric Clapton when I just had to listen to him a week ago?? Didn't finish this, I have to be honest.

This feels like a very important transitional album. It feels like a blues album first and foremost, with its focus being on creative guitar playing over riffs or rhythm. At the same time it feels very much like a 70s blues rock album, especially on some of the early songs with an organ. Compared to those albums it feels freer and looser, less confined by rock songwriting. The downside is that it's also easy to compare it to other blues artists, and it holds up less well in that regard. As good as the playing is, it doesn't have the depth of the best American bluesmen or the passion in the vocals. It feels a bit like what it is - a bunch of covers (mostly). While I have no doubt this was crucial in bridging the gap between the blues and blues rock, I also think both styles have been done better.

Boring

i like this a lot. i've been swing dancing a lot so i've been appreciating the rhythms on the songs. of course swing is different from blues but the general idea remains. also eric clapton is in here? good energy, good fun. ok i have to go work on my paper now

Pretty fun but nothing stuck in my mind after at all. I think there's probably a lot of blues music I'd rather listen to

by the numbers British blues larping

nondescript blues rock. 2.5

Hit or miss in these blues tracks, some great stuff and some a little less engaging songs. Have You Heard probably my favorite track, the guitar noodling had me floating through the air.

British guys make mostly a cover album of songs from black American blues artists. Vocals are sub par but Clapton is on fire.

John Mayall is like the director of a blues fair. Just look at the album cover: he's on the left, bassist John McVie, who would soon leave to form Fleetwood Mac, is on the right, and the comic book is being read by Eric Clapton, who needs no introduction. And plenty of musicians like him, who would go on to have incredible careers, played with Mayall. Musically, the album is dull and can be described as "white Englishmen playing black blues." "So it's literally The Rolling Stones," you might say, but the Stones added their own twist to the classic blues sound, and here guys went the "copy and paste" route. Half the songs are covers of blues standards, but if you don't know which ones, you'll never guess. And a very strange feeling remains: undoubtedly talented, famous musicians play well, but in the end it seems like you're listening to some cover band who was booked for a corporate event in honor of the company's anniversary.

All right, Clapton. You win this round.

Do you think they consciously were like if we're going to call a song Little Girl we should immediately clarify that she's at least 18 years old

I mean not bad but I’m not a Clapton guy

Feels like old school blues with a heavy infusion of electric guitar. Set the mood for a smoky bar atmosphere and a lot of old working joes just trying to wind down. Don't know Clapton's history but the music is solid enough for what it is. The screams Midwest rural America to me.

White boys play the blues. I realise that this is much maligned but I’m not against it if they bring something new into the mix the way the Stones or Zeppelin did, but these guys don’t bring anything new and also manage to rip off the Beatles as well. I could mark it down more because Clapton is in it, the racist, antivax weirdo, but I separate the art from the artist so I’m not doing that. As for the ‘it was transformative in bringing the blues to a wider audience’, was it though? It came out in 1966, by which point the Beatles and Stones were both massive and regularly cited several proper blues artists as key influences. It’s just too late for this album to lay claim to opening the door to anything and it’s just not original enough, a DJ playing blues records on a British radio station would have had far more impact than this.

The guitar playing was pretty cool and I definitely enjoyed some of the songs on this album (especially at the beginning), but this just gets boring so quickly. I was not sad that this album ended.

Fuck me two one stars in a row. I was willing to go to a 2 up until Ramblin’ On My Mind. Hated it and everything that came afterwards. Felt like it went on for a bloody eternity. Hated this, absolutely hated it.

It’s a low three. But it’s not nearly as bad as everyone thinks that it is it has really great guitar work and as horrible as Eric Clapton may be, I believe in separating art from the artist. The song little girl though is very creepy and I do not like it so that’s why it’s getting a very low three.

Now this is what I’m talking about!!

Dynamite

once you've heard enough Clapton everything with Clapton sounds the exact same except Cream

Firstly, never heard of 'em. Secondly, they definitely broke the blues with this one. The musicianship is good (aside from the singing) but it sounds like white guys covering blues songs for a local pub. No soul whatsoever. Even Eric Clapton would rather read a magazine than be involved with the rest of them. I wanted to listen to it all because that's the point of this experiment but five and a half songs was enough. Why this is on this list is beyond me.

Nice listen

2.5 rounded up

It's blues alright. Joyous, fun, beautiful blues... If that's not an oxymoron. Loved this.

The licks are hot. The lyrics are not.

Not too crazy about yet another record with Eric Clapton. Also kinda boring.

I will confess that I like Cream, but the more non-Cream Clapton I hear, the less interested I become. This is a great example. I'd never heard this album before, and nothing about it seemed innovative to me in the slightest. Maybe it's Ginger Baker, maybe it's Jack Bruce that makes Cream what it is, but as with Derek and the Dominoes, his solo stuff or this, I don't find anything there worth listening to more than once.

bit wanky and clapton is a racist cunt

Bailed on it. Not for me at all. Just do not care about Eric Clapton or whatever this is.

I've heard this album before. It's good classic white guy blues and covers. For a bunch of 1960 Brits this is a solid album of true blues jams. "All Your Love", "Have You Heard", "Ramblin' On My Mind", "It Ain't Right", are all classic songs. Their version of "Hideaway" is good but there are much better ones out there. Great guitar work, good vocals, a classic sound, respect for American blues and a solid lineup of songs make for a respectable album. Legacy is there too, minus the hits, and impact on many Brit and American blues players to come. Top 1001? Not sure, but I won't argue this time. 3.5 stars

Fine enough blues rock. I won't doubt that this album may have pioneered the rock-styled guitar playing for blues given Eric Clapton's contributions here, but it's admittedly tough to really elevate this when it's just a bunch of blues standards.

not sure if i've ever listened to a blues album before but this was fire. "bluesbreakers" felt like a very fitting title for this track since yes it was blues but it also felt very rock and almost jazzy at points with the way some tracks were swung. loved the drum and harmonica solos too.

Love it. Bluesy

Decent blues album that's easy to listen to but doesn't do anything really unique. The tracks kind of blended together since they're mostly guitar solos over the top of simple chord progressions. Steppin' Out was my favourite on first listen but it was pretty consistent.

of the subgenres on this list, straight-up blues is maybe my least favorite. this was such standard blues, boring, and then there's clapton there to boot.

There was a lot more heart and soul in here than I really expected out of Eric Clapton

Enjoyable listen, but nothing crazy. It was ok... Thx

#450/1001. Yet another white man's blues album from the 60's on this list. They all should be put to a basket and one chosen randomly to represent the genre. This one has its moments, and they are thise when the guitar is out (sorry Clapton).

Großartig!

Can white men sing the blues? These guys can, but should they have? Probably not, in my opinion. This was all technically very proficient but it left me totally cold. Blues without soul.

This was fine, a little pervy for my taste but overall solid blues album before Eric Clapton lost the plot.

Is it the most interesting blues rock album of all time? No. Is it the best album of 1966? Nope. Does it sound different than what contemporaries were doing at the time? Yep. Did it change the way people made music? Absolutely. It's a wildly influential bridge album, and it should be viewed in that context. I wonder how this would be viewed if it didn't slap Eric Clapton's name on the cover considering that seems to be the only thing people comment on about this record.

Hadn't listened to this one since high school or maybe college. Brought back some nice memories, but after all the years, it doesn't quite hit the same. A bit simplistic (and note, the original bluesmen that things guys are riffing on were *not* simplistic), and a bit weird to hear these white guys sing about such themes. Still, it's nostalgic.

I have not heard this before. This is just standard 12-bar blues over and over again and not as good as the original. Clapton’s playing isn’t terrible and none of the songs are bad, and a few of them are really good, and still the whole thing seems non-essential.

Why don't Brits understand the blues? Many of them love it, many of the greats claim to be heavily influenced by it, but none of them can seem to make anything more than a basic blues album. It's kind of wild to me. This 2* album should be replaced by Kenny Wayne Shepherd's "Trouble Is . . ." which is a clear 4*

We must prosecute the British for their crimes against the culture. Boring and samey. Fans call this the Beano album well I say there be no chance I revisit any time soon.

Ehhh I fucking do not like Eric Clapton, and this “blues” styling is lost on me. Like was it a scam? These young white dudes are like let’s cover some old blues songs add some noodley guitar riffs basically just wing it, release the album and other white dudes fawn over it.

Oh. Brits doing the blues. With Eric Clapton? Joy. Influential ✔️ Want to listen to ❌ Plugging my nose and diving in ✔️ Um. Yeah. I could say so much. I’ll just give it a 3 and call it good. Boolean: true

I like the blues genre