Bluesbreakers

love love love!!!

Amazing album, I really enjoyed listening to it, and then when I came back to write the review, I noticed that Eric Clapton was there as well. Overall, beautiful instrumentals, definitely 5 stars, no doubt.

Fantastic music. Has a lot of soul and I love Eric's guitar playing - one of the best in the world to ever do it.

Oh yeah. Love it. Electric blues guitar a sound that makes my ears happy. It might be, it could be, it is! A 5.0!

Increíble. Un hit de principio a fin. Muchísimo blues, mucho rock doloroso y unas interpretaciones que taladran el alma. Las guitarras de Clapton son una locura, y John Mayall y su banda hacen magia. Amé completamente.

A godsend from yesterday. Jazzy, funky, sensual. Listened twice it was so nice.

beginning

brilliant album.

Better than expected!

got it, like it

Classic English Blues!

Le premier album qui m'a fait découvrir le blues(-rock) Clapton dans sa fougue de jeunesse.

Bell gang de cokés. Ça semble être tout des standards blues. J'adore le jeu de Clapton. What'd I say il y a le riff de Day Tripper à la fin. Les Beatles dans leur ère blues rock (white album, revolver, abbey road et surtout let it be) semblent avoir puisé ++ de là. Clapton et Harrison ont dû s'acoquiner à cette époque. L'harmoniciste est pro aussi. Me fait penser à notre grand Guy Bélanger. Ramblin' on my mind excellente

I’ve not really enjoyed the other Clapton on this list so am surprised how much I liked this one. It makes me want to go back and give the others another chance. Rating: 4.6

A great album. A great Eric Clapton album. It ist still 1966 and he will develop a lot but very fine blues (although not so extremely creative) already to hear here. Wonderful.

Loved it! Thanks fir showing me this one

This is the ultimate modern blues revival album. Definitely worth listening to.

Histórico, seminal y fundamental.

In the '60s, everything Eric Clapton touched turned to gold. It's no wonder he was called "God." This album is awesome! 5 stars.

Simple blues done simply well. 4.5 bumped up to 5.

I’m at a 5. Eric Clapton before Cream, John McVie before Fleetwood Mac, & then two people I’ve never heard of in Hughie Flint & John Mayall. RIP to John Mayall, by the way. Great drums & vocals though; they shine really well here. Take those 4, do a bunch of blues covers & a couple of originals, and you get a groovy fucking album that showcases their talent really nicely. Yes, I hesitate to give Eric Clapton credit, but his guitar playing more than earns the right to get the co-starring role on the album art. Apparently, it’s kind of revolutionary in terms of the production circumstances, so that’s a big plus. No misses here, save for “Another Man” being kind of unpolished to my ears, but overall, I enjoyed all of this. All the covers seemingly do justice rather well – even the slightly baffling drum solo thrown into “What’d I Say” is fine. I do, however, wish it had a bit more of the original track incorporated into it. The original tracks are all good, *especially* “Key to Love”. If I have any complaints, it’s that I wish the mono mix gave just a little more room to some of the buried instrumentation, but that’s a really minor nitpick, partially brought on by the technology of the era. There’s moments where you can barely hear an organ or harmonica in the back, and other instruments that I wish had more clarity to them. All in all, it’s some damn good blues, especially with the way the electric guitar is incorporated. This is the only album recorded by this version of the band’s lineup, and that’s a bit of a shame, but I think it ultimately ended up pretty well for most of these guys. Hell, if you follow the throughline of the Bluesbreakers as a whole, Fleetwood Mac emerges out of it pretty damn quickly. I can see exactly why this is on the list, and I can see why Rolling Stone had it in their top 500 for a while. Pretty fast 38 minutes, and a very enjoyable album. A recommended 5.

# Album Name: Blues Breakers # Artist: John Mayall and the bluesbreakers # Rating: 5/5 # Comments: This is a great album. A real music focussed album. The quality of the band is 2nd to none. # Top Tunes: The album # Would I listen to it again? Yes

the good life

Sexy album. I loved the instrumentation on this thing. The guitar from the Clapper is delicious, vocals are smooth, and the harmonica isn't overused.

whatever you think about the artist, sometimes the art is worth talking about on its own merit (and i do agree that sometimes it is not) i hear this album as a statement of appreciation and affection for what the original black blues artists were saying. can’t possibly know what the young white british artists intended but i honestly don’t care. 5/5

Really enjoyed this.

ive had a bunch of clapton on here and its all been mid. this one is tits tho.

Great classic Blues

John Mayall and his various conformations of the Bluesbreakers were major figures of the British blues boom of the early 1960s. The Bluesbreakers were a hothouse for musical talent that broke out of the blues into genres such as heavy rock, psychedelia and eventually AOR. An excellent album, most;y blues standards, and hugely influential.

Hughie Flint's drum solo sounds like that nice kid whose parents bought him a drum set and nobody has the heart to tell him that he just isn't very good. Hughie's pretty good when just laying down the beat, but that solo is embarrassing. But that's my only complaint. I can only imagine the effect this had in 1966 because it is an exceptional blues album.

Legendary.

Bangin' album, a hommage to all their Blues legends. It's full of covers and thus doesn't really have its own material, so the focus is mainly on how they play it. I'm a sucker for the 60's Blues Rock scene so this is right up my alley. The playing here is brilliant, they don't really stretch the blues songs too far like people would later in the 60's, but there is still room for them to stretch and solo the songs. Claptons guitar playing takes center stage, but I love the drums and singing here as well. I think there are other, more interesting British Blues albums, but this one is still a pleasant listen.

The album that spread blues over the ocean

Great album from top to bottom. A lot of British bands took their shot at it, but this is the best.

One of the best albums I have heard.

Great stuff

Excellent

A fantastic album. This is one I own on vinyl so I didn't need to listen to it again, but I did anyway. Mayall's first three albums are masterpieces of British blues. He had an ear for talent. The blues is where it's at.

Rock and roll baby

Hands down blues classic

Muy bueno

What a beauty of a album

Best album of all time.

This is a super solid album with some exceptional musicianship. As a blues fan this is a 5

The Beano, a blues classic. I've dusted off the guitar and the blues picking for this one.

9/10

5/5

When I close my eyes and pretend to be a blues guitarist, this is the album I’m playing. (I’m a beginner-at-best guitar player and never heard this album before.) I’ve discovered that if you learn to love the blues, it opens up a whole universe of music to bathe in. Totally recommend this album for anyone who’d like to take the plunge! Five-on-the-side!

A true classic. Early Clapton and Mayall

There’s a lot of reviews on here saying how generic this is - but that’s because after this came out everyone wanted to sound like this. John Mayall sadly died a few weeks ago but his influence in reimagining and popularising blues music was immense. And this album is great. Sadly, Eric Clapton is a jerk in real life.

Excellent blues! While Clapton headlines, his guitar does not seem to feature more than the other instruments, and the standout moments of sax, harp, organ, and piano, make this a well-blended album. Mayall it a great artist.

I was initially planning on giving this a four, largely because of the whole "white guys covering black music" issue, which is a real problem with the blues, particularly. After a couple of listens, I decided it was inspired enough to give it five stars anyway. A first for me!

Great

Had never heard this album...loved it. Eric Clapton is one of the greatest guitar players of all time and this is a magnificent version of him and John Mayall is perfection!

A quintessential blues album which gained Clapton his “God” nickname. This influenced very popular guitar sounds in the years and decades which followed and is an album which many many successful artists will point to as inspiring.

Excellent blues guitar from Clapton. Will definitely listen again.

Ooo this was nice! For me this was just right in a lot of ways. It was blues, but folk, but rock and a little something else in between. I would listen to this over and over.

Blues

This album is five stars because of one thing, that guitar tone.

I’m not a huge blues fan but damn this record is outstanding. That Clapton guitar is amazing and Mayals vocals are killer.

Desde la disqueria, uno de mis álbumes favoritos

awesome classic blues

Quintessential blues and happy surprises! So love all that!

AWesome!

I can't help but love this album, its mostly nostalgia I'm sure. There are definitely some unfortunate lyrics and probably 60s British blues in general hasn't aged well, but it just sounds really good.

What a great album!

Really solid blues rock. Favourite songs: It Ain't Right, Parchman Farm, Key to Love, Little Girl, Bernard Jenkins, Lonely Years, Double Crossin' Time, All Your Love, Ramblin' On My Mind, Steppin' Out Least favourite songs: if forced to pick: What'd I Say 5/5

This makes me wanna do a jive

This is pleasantly surprising. I mean, it was fairly obviously going to be blues ("The Bluesbreak" gives that away) but it turns out to be pretty good blues. Especially for some white guys. I've no idea what percentage of this is original material, if any, but even if it isn't, it's executed well. So it'll get a good rating.

Love the heavy sounds

Starting to feel self-conscious about handing out so many 5* ratings but this is way too precisely built for me. Eric Clapton is such a wizard, it's a shame that he has become yet another artist that you need to separate from his art. Very interesting to read about how influential the sound of this album was - it sounds so perfectly like what modern electric blues should, and turns out that's because everyone copied it. Marshall even named its amp the Bluesbreaker because of it!

Some classic blues guitar here. It’s hard to imagine Clapton ever topping this electric performance.

fantastic guitar and drum solos

Classic

Excellent British blues rock album from the mid-1960s, and I'm not even into blues that much. I greatly enjoyed listening to it. Clapton shows his very best on this album.

Fenomenaal ruig bluesalbum, heel erg genoten vooral van de plaatjes met mondharmonica. Dit albumpie ga ik zeker vaker aanzetten

Great album. I prefer this sort of rock blues compared to blues blues.

Geen genre zo voorspelbaar en weinig innovatief als de blues, en toch is dit de vette shit. Kippenhokmuziek van het beste soort, ik vergeef ze zelfs de te lange drumsolo. Maar ja, met Eric Clapton in de gelederen kan het eigenlijk al niet misgaan. Gisteren al gedraaid tijdens de sessie Beer is los in de mancave van Eric D., vandaag met veel plezier nog een paar keer opgezet.

Je kan dit wel dood analyseren, maar je kan hier beter gewoon lekker van genieten. Want wat is dit een heerlijk album zeg!

Fijne afwisselend mijmerende en dan weer opzwepende blues(rock). Ik heb gelijk hierna maar even Cuby en de Blizzards opgezet, want dat is natuurlijk de NLse John Mayall. Met Eelco Gelling als Eric Clapton. Het zit een beetje tussen een 4 en een 5 in, maar ik ben in een goede bui, dus ik rond het weer eens lekker af naar boven.

Ah the Beano album. This is the album you tell people to listen to when they say they don't like blues. The diversity on this album is great, with differing instruments, tempos and feel for each song. Everybody talks about Clapton (with good reason - his playing on this album changed blues and rock), but the rhythm section of Flint and McVie is solid, and ultimately most of the credit deserves to go to Mayall.

Can white men play the blues? They most definitely can. Loved this album even though I'd never heard any of the tracks before.

I own it on vinal--that's an automatic 5. Another route through which naive girls learned about the blues. Departed from the slapped together junk British youth immitated at the time. Don't know what Clapton was complaining about--not authentic enough. It was all about him anyway. Mayall was pretty amazing too.

This album absolutely rules. The blues are tight as fuck. The arrangements beyond the guitars are top notch. The guitar playing...I mean, the words don't exist. Just so superlative. Favorite track: Hideaway

This is a 5 for me, although probably barely. It's got that super classic blues rock feel - this is the era and style that all that blues-based rock that we love so much is actually based on. I bet Clapton's later work is seen as 'better' but I think this is the most fluid and loose I've ever heard from him. He's got so much 'feel' coming through in his improvisation here, and I FWIW I am beginning to wonder if the Les Paul years suit me better than the Strat years haha Anyway great record, a lot of fun, killer guitar work.

"Blues Breakers" is the debut album by English blues band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with guitarist Eric Clapton. After the release of Mayall's first album, Eric Clapton joined the group leaving the Yardbirds. The album was originally planned to be a live album but ended up recorded at Decca Studio in London. It is credited with helping pioneer a guitar-dominated blues rock sound with Clapton's guitar guitar tone very influential in future commercial rock-style guitar playing. Besides Clapton on guitar, the band includes John Mayall (vocals, piano, organ, harmonica), John McVie (bass) and Hughie Flint (drums). A horn section is added in the second half of the album. Of note, the album title as well as Clapton's guitar are nicknamed "The Beano" after the album cover where Clapton is pictured reading "The Beano." The album opens with a cover of Otis Rush's "All Your Love." A bluesy rhythm section. Background organ. Mayall's strong vocals. It starts slow then picks up pace. Clapton's guitar both having rhythm and lead aspects. A searing Clapton solo. Let's get this out of the way. Every song has a searing Clapton solo, so no more mentioning of them. They are all great. "Little Girl" has a quicker pace. A Mayall original. I like the melodic tone of Clapton's guitar both in the chorus and solo (Oops, last time). "Double Crossing Time" features the piano and has a stomping bluesy groove. One of my favorite songs on the album. The second half adds horns which kicks off with "Key to Love." This is a bouncey song. Lest we forget that John Mayall is one of the best harmonica players, the band covers "Parchman Farm." Never a better blues subject than spending time in the state pen. Some more great rhythm section playing. A bouncey feel. Horns start off "Have You Heard." This is slower. Great interplay between EC's guitar and the horns. Eric Clapton's guitar playing, guitar solos and especially his guitar tone are all spetacular. But, there is more here. The rhythm section is tight. Mayall's harmonica playing and vocals are top notch. There's variety in their blues approach using horns, an organ, a piano or a harmonica with EC's guitar. This is rightfully put up with the best-ever blues rock albums.

Blues rock. Clapton. Vinilo.

Genres: Blues rock, blues Formed: 1963 Run time: 24 songs, 1 hour, 14 mins (12 songs, mono then again in stereo) The debut studio album by the English blues rock band. This band has had a phenomenal list of members over the years: Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce (both later of Cream), Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, and John McVie (those three would form Fleetwood Mac), Mick Taylor (the Rolling Stones), Aynsley Dunbar (Frank Zappa, The Mothers of Invention), Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith and Tony Reeves (these three would form Colosseum), and many others. Most modern Rock guitar laden music can trace its roots back to this group and album. I’ve never heard of John Mayall or The Bluesbreakers, but I am very familiar with the groups formed by the artists passing through. Spotify: Least popular song: >350k Most popular song: >33M plays. Out of the 200+ albums I’ve listened to as part of the “1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die” there have only been a couple that I actually believed lived up to that grand title, and this is one of them. Listen Again?: Yes My Rating: *****

Goddamn what a star studded cast. Almost every song had me clicking over to see which great was involved. Really good album.

Oh wow.

did not like the little girl song but good vibes

This is known as the preeminent blues album for lead guitar work for very good reason. Clapton’s 1960 Les Paul screams throughout. This album is the Mecca towards which all electric blues guitarists are migrating towards when they practice. I learned that the 1960 Les Paul Standard used two PAF (patent applied for) humbucker pickups, which hold a revered place in many guitarists hearts. These pickups eliminated the humming sound of single coil pickups by wiring two opposite polarity single coils in serial (nerd shit). The manufacturing process was inconsistent during the early years leading to each guitar having a unique sound. Over the years, the manufacturing process became more standardized and design efficiencies were introduced. Eventually, the original humbucker design was so well sought after in the community that Les Paul, and other companies, spent significant resources trying to replicate the pickups from this guitar’s time period due to performances such as Clapton’s on Bluesbreakers.

This was really good

Straight blues. Great album.

Hits you in the face with blues, then some more, and even a little jazz. Some of my favorite Clapton.

In My late 20s & early 30s I had a rock/blue phase. I'd go to blues clubs & festivals, so this album fits that part of me perfectly. I love this style of guitar & vocals...it sounds like soulful sex. I'm taking this as a reminder to revisit this genre. 5 outta 5.

Own on Vinyl

Blues rock. Clapton. Vinilo.

Eric Clapton is my beloved little blues guitarist. I've recently come to appreciate good blues. This album is an excellent example of good blues. No, amazing blues!

I demand an explanation for why I had to grow up only hearing Tears in Heaven and Layla but not Clapton's best stuff. This is a fantastic blues rock album with excellent guest artists and a great sound.

Wow great album. My favorite so far. Good easy listening blues

Loved every second of it. Best track: All Your Love

Easy listen. Can't really fault it. It's on the lower end of 5 though.

Super album!

Damn. This album melts in your years. Like Santana and BB King had a band and then Eric Clapton joined in. This is an album you can have on all the time. Just a great groove to hang with and some of the best guitar-centered blues you'll ever hear. The interplay between Clapton's virtuosic guitar playing and Mayall's expressive vocals creates a mesmerizing and unforgettable listening experience. "Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton" is an essential album for any fan of the blues.

what. an. album. great vocals killer instrumentation. Clapton absolutely shreds on guitar. There’s a great mix of blues styles but it all comes together like a delicious soup of sound. loved it.

Really dig this album, solid blues tracks with riffs i recognize from other artists. So not sure whom was borrowing riffs from who but its a good album for blues fans.

Fucking CUTE. I'd listen to it again, all old times n cute! Only thing is after a while I got bored to listen to the whole thing, but as singles I fuck with it hardd

Excellent album

suspeito pra falar, bluezao de respeito

Never heard this before, I love it.

Excellent UK blues

Awesome

Jazzy, I like

Groovy bluesy vibes. Very enjoyable listen!

What a fricken tone

A key release during the mid-sixties and set the stage for almost all blues-based rock albums for the next decade. Amazing in its simplicity. Ramblin’ On My Mind is the first ever Clapton vocal and provides a blueprint for what he has been mining ever since. The overall musicianship is very high quality. John McVie bass is solid and, along with Hughie Flint, provides the requisite support for Clapton's guitar and Mayall's keys. To me this is ageless.

Awesome

(A Guitar) Stroke of genius

Peak Clapton

BIG BIG BIG Fan of this one. Such a great and varied album.

5/5

Great Bluesrock

Ok tbink i get it now

Really enjoyed this album and will add to my usual rotation. Early Clapton sounds amazing.

Nice blues-rock with mono&stereo tracks

First time listening, classic blues album.

Great album

A fantastic album. Really pushing british blues forward

Very good, nice solos and an overall decent flow.

Discazo. Blues a punto de derivar en psicodelia. Clapton hace magia y no se le da el suficiente credito pese a la fama que tiene. Otro disco que parece sacado de Louisiana, no se por que no habian temas en True Detective. Ideal para escucharlo con las luces bajas y tomar el whiskey mas barato que puedas digerir.

Blues the way it should be

excelente

Great old school, raw rock album

YES!

It's blues music but with Eric Clapton on the guitar? Awesome, love it.

White boy blues at its finest

A pleasant rift of the harmonica blues along with Eric Clapton

Discazo, Clapton se adueña del disco. Solo hay un solo de batería, eterno, pero solo uno.

very good album, lots of absolute slaps and gives me a reminder of the blues brothers which is nice. solid 5 star

The "Beano" album... just AWESOME! Clapton at height of his powers. Raw blues and rock, great guitar tones and playing.

Un classique du blues rock et de eric clapton. C’est un album qu’il faut avoir ecoute dans sa vie et je l’ai deja ecoute des dizaines de fois. 5*

Nada que decir, discazzo

Si señor, tenga sus 5!

yeahhhhhh

Great blues enjoyed it maybe a bit too much

Not Cream, b/c psychedelia was never Eric’s deal, the Clapton of the Blues Breakers & the Dominoes were the best the world ever saw. For the many of us who find the bloke’s reputation bloated & undeserving, what we need to realize is that he was never a hack, he was just hella boring. A fan of the blues, an almost painful admirer of a form he knew he’d never master, Eric didn’t just appropriate black music, I think he was agonizingly in love w/ an outlet that would essentially elude him always. Agony, no matter its source, often makes for good art, & the guy has genuine breakthrus on this record, especially 'All Your Love,' 'Have You Heard,' 'Ramblin' On My Mind,' & the big-sounding 'Steppin' Out.' Oh yeah, Mayall & the rest ain't so bad either.

Yea this was some fantastic blues. Back to back days with absolute elite guitar play, give me more please

This record was a bop from beginning to end. There were some lulls, but it was great nonetheless. Favourite Track(s): Hideaway, What'd I Say, Ramblin' On My Mind, Bernard Jenkins Least Favourite Track(s): Another Man, Parchman Farm

the debut of blues rock band john mayall and the bluesbreakers. after seeing mayall's last record release, which was recorded live, guitarist eric clapton decided to join the band. this album here was supposed to be a live album too, but the idea was tossed after the quality of the recordings ended up being crappy. it's standard, but generally good blues music. honestly some of the best performances by not just clapton but everyone else... it's a very cool and rough-around-the-edges type of classic blues music. it's not much of a challenge or anything that gave me something new, especially how the songs are written and ESPECIALLY the lyrics too... typically a lot of blues stuff is barebones, repetitive song structure and lyrics and people just trying to riff around it for like 5-10 minutes, and this is what this album has. but it's alright! can't complain that much about it.

good old, american, guitar-driven blues, really well done

Required listening for anyone taking Blues Rock 101. Good stuff

muy buen album de blues.

Great blues with Clapton

The album where Eric Clapton arrived....created a seemingly simple template: plugging a Les Paul into a Marshall and cranking it....that guitarists across genres have been copying for years. His playing on this album is sublime (the version of "Hideaway" being a particular favorite), John Mayall has a really nice voice, especially in the upper register, and the band is tight for 45 minutes of solid blues. Fun album

Can't go wrong with some 60's blues rock, especially with Eric Clapton on guitar. Also has a sweet drum solo. Never heard them before, but really liked the album.

Not something I would normally choose, but I really enjoyed this! Reminded me of a poppier Depeche Mode, or New Order. Will definitely relisten.

1. "All Your Love" 2. "Hideaway" 3. "Ramblin' on My Mind"

I was really enjoying this until someone at work told me Eric Clapton is in this. I'm going to pretend I don't know.

Say what you will about Eric Clapton, he made an impact and has had a major influence. This was pretty rowdy guitar music back then. I'm a fan!

Greats album. Full of fun sounds and tracks

One of my favorite early blues records

Yep - very good. Assholes making great music.

Just like the last one….good album but not something I’d put-on a lot.

7 - GOOD

Im Mai 1966 trafen sich John Mayall, Eric Clapton, Bassist John McVie und Schlagzeuger Hughie Flint im Decca Studio No. 2 in West Hampstead, London, um unter Produzent Mike Vernon und Toningenieur Gus Dudgeon ein Album aufzunehmen, das die britische Blueslandschaft dauerhaft verändern sollte. Veröffentlicht auf Decca, verband das Werk – im Volksmund schlicht als „Beano-Album" bekannt – amerikanischen Electric Blues der alten Schule mit einer frischen, lauten englischen Energie: Vorlagen von Otis Rush, Freddie King und Robert Johnson wurden ebenso aufgegriffen wie eigene Kompositionen Mayalls. Die eigentliche Hauptfigur ist Claptons Gitarrenspiel. Seine 1960er Gibson Les Paul Standard durch einen Marshall JTM45 getrieben, erzeugte er einen durch Röhrenverzerrung und Sustain geprägten Ton, der für die damalige Zeit radikal modern klang und in Tracks wie „All Your Love", „Hideaway" und „Ramblin' on My Mind" eine Intensität entfaltete, die seinen Ruf als „God" an Londoner Wänden rechtfertigte. Clapton sang hier erstmals auf Platte – und dass er ausgerechnet Robert Johnsons „Ramblin' on My Mind" wählte, verrät alles über seine musikalischen Wurzeln. Mayall selbst bleibt dabei der ruhende Pol: als Organist, Mundharmonikaspieler, Sänger und konzeptioneller Kopf hält er das Ensemble zusammen, ohne sich in den Vordergrund zu drängen. Das Album landete bei seiner Veröffentlichung im Juli 1966 auf Platz 6 der britischen Charts – bemerkenswert für ein nahezu kompromissloses Bluesalbum – und bildete den Ausgangspunkt für die Karrieren von Clapton (Cream), McVie (Fleetwood Mac) sowie einer ganzen Generation britischer Rockgitarristen. Dieses Album ist kein Zeitdokument – es ist ein Gründungsakt.

No matter what you may think about Eric Clapton, he sure could play the guitar at this time of his life. I added “… All Your Love” to my playlist.

I was gonna write this off as just another blues inspired rock album and it definitely is, but it’s a breeze of a listen and a real good time. Loved hearing the Day Tripper riff on What’d I Say.

I feel like I'm not supposed to like Eric Clapton because he's a prat and is supposedly overrated, but it's hard to deny that most every act he played in had something going on. It can't just be coincidence. So it is here. I've listened to a good bit of John Mayal's output over the years. This had a crackling energy. Not my go to style of music, but this was great. And John McVie on bass. Nice.

Real good, would be nice if Clapton was as good of a person as he is a guitar player.

Bluesy tunes there were some good songs actually

Great stuff.

La guitarra me volvió loco.

Maybe it has been the poor albums we have had recently, so when something like this comes along it sounds all the better. Of course Clapton is great on the guitar.

The guitar(s) carried the album and made it an enjoyable listen

Not gonna lie, I was expecting more. They sounded really good, but just not incredible. Loved the bluesy sound and the stories on some of the songs, but quite a few just felt like fluff to fill out the album. Really was expecting more.

Blues, unsurprisingly

Great record. I love Freddie King, so I enjoyed their take on Hideaway. And that made me think of SRV. Is there any SRV on this list?

Great rock and blues feel. Like track 1 and 5 the most

Enjoyed this but Clapton is still a prick.

Fun blues that lost a bit of steam towards the end, but had some really good playing overall.

Det va helt ok, men ikke for mæ sånn egentlig, æ hørte på det men det festa sæ ikke.

Mega tuff

So I believe this is the first album to feature this pretty niche underground guitarist Eric Clapton who sum might say is the greatest guitarist of all time; better than t swift I think not! As for the album it’s pretty tuff tbh. I like the cover of what’d I say with the crazy drum solo. The rest of the albums solid to

rock blues, piaciuto

This didn’t grab me right away, but I ended up happily grooving along with this album by the end.

Eminently important at the time and helped spawn a generation or two of guitarists. Perhaps because of the amount of imitators it created it now sounds rather generic. I always refer to this as the Metallica phenomenon. When an artist's work becomes so core to a genre and inspires so many others it ends up sounding generic even if it was anything but that in its time. So, yes, it doesn't sound super exciting now, but in the context of the time I can see why it was revered as it was. That makes it a tricky one to review, honestly. I'll stick it at a 4 as a kind of personal compromise.

Clapton is a certified asshole, but boy, could he play the guitar in the 60s.

Good blues album. Gives me memories of eating in Red, Hot and Blue restaurant. Didn’t know Clapton was an ass though.

Blues Breakers, two words.

True blue blues music! Not to be missed

gdzie kucharek szesc tam ladnie zaaranzowane niebieskie kowery

Pure blues, great guitars and amazing voices

Eric Clapton solos were astounding. Def enjoyed this album with John Mayall lead singing. Could be 3/4 but on the high after Claptons solos putting it at a 4/5!

legends. chill. easy. vibes. covers.

Knew this as the Beano album back in the day. Always a fun listen.

Great blues album, and a great showcase for how talented a guitar player Eric Clapton is. Highlights: "Hideaway" and "Steppin' Out"

Great musicianship on this album. The harmonica and saxophone playing was so good and even though it was all pretty standard blues it didn’t really get old for me. I usually prefer playing blues over listening to it but this was definitely an above-average blues album

I thought this was a really good blues album. Solid playing from everyone, although I thought the vocals were just OK except for the one song that Clapton sang (Stepping Out). The songs were consistently good, with Hideaway and Key to Love my favorite tracks. The lyrical on Baby Girl were a bit creepy, and I don’t know why you would cover What’d I Say. Nobody can compare to Ray Charles on that.

really enjoyable tbh which I didn't expect

Good blues, distilled everything done at that point into a slammin album

Bluesy goodness!

Love the white man Brit blues! Good stuff.

quintessential english blues from a formidable group

It's a good album to have playing the background

All Your Love Have You Heard Ramblin' on My Mind Steppin' Out

I am absolutely shocked I’ve never heard of this before. Oversight!!! What a fun combo of blues, jazz, and psychedelic jam band. Will revisit

Eric Clapton put the team on his back. This is fairly mid blues album, but god damn is he good.

The good parts were incredible, but there were some bits that came off as sloppy, especially in track 1

A wonderful introduction to British blues. It borrows heavily on American blues, and then adds Clapton's muscle guitar, which is full of young energy. It's not all great, but so much of it makes me feel like the best blues does. 4/5

Soulful.

Chadbreakers

Good songwriting, great guitar

Pretty good Blues album. I’m not a huge fan of Blues music but this one was an enjoyable listen. Fav song: All Your Love. Worst song: Lonely Years. My rating: 8/10

Saying I don't like it would be too disingenuous.

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Great blues album

Solid blues album, high 3

Never heard but cool to learn about how this album kind of started British blues rock, which is essentially the core “classic rock” sound you think of.

Hmm this maybe my favorite thing I heard Eric Clapton play on. Just a straight ahead blues rock record from the 60s. It’s great. I never heard of John Mayall and I’m guessing he’s singing and he’s got an average voice at best. But this is just cool. Great listen.

Yeah pretty serviceable blues album, why not

I really liked the style of and guitars on this album. It's very blues, but if you're in the mood for it, you're in the mood for it, and I sure was.

White Boy Blues. That Eric Clapton guy sure can play the guitar though.

Have You Heard this album yet?

Solid blues album.

Avant d'être un gros con, Eric Clapton faisait des trucs cools.

Takes me back to my early days of discovering the Yardbirds and the first Clapton's albums. Love it +

British, white boy rock gets a lot of hate nowadays. EC spiralling into a world class boomer bigot isn't helping the cause. That being said, I haven't listened to this in a LONG time, but this morning? It really hit.

Clapton's guitar just smokes. A few uneven tracks, but really brilliant blues stuff here.

Very good! Felt very blues Beatlesey.

Love how they announce their presence with authority! Great album. I liked the balance between covers and originals, as well as their choice of covers.

Pretty phenomenal playing, and you can feel how much they love the blues, even if they are a bunch of white guys from London.

Excellent blues

these guys copied the blues brothers

Bluesey as hell. Bluesbreakers is an apt name for a band and album which takes the genre and places it on its head. Subversive but also just earwormy. I wish I could write more eloquently because this album has stuck with me for weeks, alas, let the music speak. And speak it does.

Solid album. Fun listen. Definitely a 4.5/5 - round down for crazy Eric Clapton.

Excellent album, hadn't heard it before. Definitely of its time (some skiffle influences perhaps?)

Da (British White Guy) BLOOZ! Not a Clapton fan particularly, and I typically turn my nose at British blues, but John Mayall and the Blues Breakers are giving the bizness on this one. I will take back my predisposition of white British blues players for a time… But only if the music is rhythmic and moving. Get that rigid, breadstick shit out of here.

the electric guitar, my god

#757. Even though most of the ratings for this one are threes and fours, all of the most liked comments are the one star ratings, which leads me to believe that one guy with an incognito tab was just liking all these shitty reviews over and over in order to make it look like people don't really like this. I'm going to add one star to what I actually thought just out of spite for that guy. 4/5: whatever

Len Houmous was originally lined up to play on this record but he didn’t like the idea of breaking the blues. I’m not sure he fully understood that they weren’t actually trying to break the blues. As always Clapton (or Clapped-off as Len called him) would do anything for a bit of the spotlight 4.1 7/12 Key To Love

molto bello, steppin’ out mi ha gasato particolarmente

Not bad at all. Solid blues, which is what I expected.

I didn’t think I would enjoy a blues album as much as this. Typically they get boring after a few songs but this kept me interested the whole time.

This is very good. I expected nothing less from Clapton. High 4*

good albumm with e4aric clapton

Siempre he considerado el blues un género altamente constreñido en el estricto patrón de sus estrofas y limitado en sus posibilidades expresivas. Es una obviedad que es un género seminal y toda la musca popular desde mediados de siglo XX viene de ahí, pero a mí me produce más aburrimiento cuanto más clásico es. Joh Mayall sí dio un pequeño salto adelante, adaptándolo a un concepto más blues rock más acorde a su tiempo, señalando el camino a los músicos de los años 70. Aún así, siendo este álbum buen ejemplo de ello, me cuesta disfrutarlo por esa sensación de repetición continúa. Eso sí, la guitarra de Eric Clapton se nota, y se agradece.

an album, through and through.

Good old bluesy Rock and Roll

Like Mayall's vocal. A good listen. I see the reviews complaining about white boy blues and Clapton, but, like, who cares? It's great music, whatever it is or isn't.

Some great blues. Nice album.

All new to me. Very bluesy. Cool drum so in What'd I say. Pretty good.

amazing

I do like this one.

Excellent album from the very first note. Super sexy guitar songs. I’ll be replaying this one.

This was a great and fun blues album. I would listen to this again if the mood striked

This album reminded me of Traffic at a lot of points. Mayall's voice pales in comparison to Steve Winwood's (most do), but he was a good enough signer and his harmonica playing is excellent, really adds to the album. Clapton's playing on this is the real highlight though. Just tons of great work throughout. It's an interesting choice for him to join this Mayall and his band for this, but it really works. The blues have always suited Clapton and they do here as well, even if admittedly I prefer the songs with a bit more of a rock bent to them on this record. An excellent listen. Favorite tracks were All Your Love and Little Girl.

phenomenal and easy listening 9/10

In a sense this is a stone cold 5 star classic. Nothing to this point helped the sale of guitars as much as this album. It really defines British blues in a way the yardbirds or the Rolling Stones didn’t. And Clapton is near his peak. In another sense, if you take Clapton out I can see the point of lightnin’ Hopkins barb that ‘these English boys want to play the blues so bad, and they play the blues so BAD.’ John Mcvie is yet to find his voice on bass, and Hugh Flint is solid but not especially great. Compared to Jim McCarty of the yardbirds or Charlie Watts or mick Fleetwood we he lacks something (It’s not fair to compare him to ginger baker or Bonham or Moon. The techniques are incomparable. All are valid) Flint and McVie would become incredibly good musicians in the future. McVie’s sublime playing with later iterations of Fleetwood Mac would become a model. McGuinness Flint showed the chops that Flint would develop. Really, although Mayall was to become iconic, it was more for the promotion of Chicago style blues than for any genius or even virtuosic playing. Eric is the standout, and it’s no wonder Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker wanted him. You need to hear this because it is one of the most influential albums of all time. But those who know its reputation and not its music may well wonder why. Of course context is everything - there was very little like this available in the UK at the time - and it’s not awful. The Blues Breakers are a bit dull. Clapton shows the promise he didn’t always match (and was to top in Cream and Derek and the Dominoes) but it is a case of you need to listen to what came before and after to ‘get’ it. Stepping out is a standout though. I’m going to average it to a 4 because it does deserve a 5 for many reasons but is also as equally deserving of a 3.

Up my street. Listened to this album a while back, bluesy and soulfully. A very enjoyable listen.

This is really strong 60s blues rock. Something about it didn’t 100% click with me, but it’s strong.

Solid stuff, and I'm willing to grade on a curve since it came out in '66. 4

My review is free of any bias on whether Eric Clapton is a dick (evidence seems to point to "he is") or the "white man blues" disparagement which I don't really understand so I'm not going to wade into that. I wasn't expecting pure blues or pure rock so the album can't be knocked on either count. Other than "What'd I Say" which fell flat on multiple levels, I really enjoyed this album. I remember enjoying this album on listening to it the first time before hearing all the background noise people wanted to bring up. I wonder how many scores would change if listeners were to go into this selection totally blind.

Mostly instrumental, great guitar, fun to listen to

Bluesrock! Kammmaaaaan! Dat is erg fijn op de maandagochtend. Met Eric Clapton blijkbaar. Als dat geen genieten wordt. Poah ja, heerlijk blues album. Lijkt allemaal veel op elkaar maar goed, ik houd ervan dus dat is niet erg. 4 sterren.

Si je voulais du blues j’aurais trouvé un vieil américain noir qui a vécu Jim Crow, pas des blanc becs anglais avec le trou d’cul à Clapton! Blague à part c’etait bon!

A classic!

Clapton do love his blues. Just the right band at the right time for him. Good to listen to the beginning of his lifetime of blues.

Good overall album. I remember listening to John Nataly when I was younger. I do like this album. Good selection of songs and use of other musicians from that period

cool blues

Un álbum mítico. Mucha leyenda sobre está banda. Creo que más por los guitarristas que pasaron que por el nivel de su obra, sinceramente. Aunque puede que fueran la semilla para los grupos de blues rock posteriores. No sé, Clapton me parece también un poco sobrevalorado. Voy a intentar escucharlo sin prejuicios. Es más interesante de lo que recordaba, pero la producción es bastante pobre. Todo tiene una reverberación corta que resulta bastante artificial.

A god blues album

good blues songs, great classic guitar playing.

Un bon classique du blues, très agréable à écouter!

Отличный блюз, слушается на ура при определённом настроении. 7,5 из 10.

One of the elements I really enjoyed on this album was the piano and organ, played by John Mayall himself. But what this album is most known for is Eric Clapton’s electric guitar work. This is the record that nearly turned him into a guitar god. Another cool detail is that the bass is played by John McVie, who would later go on to become one of the co founders of Fleetwood Mac.

really enjoyed this blues session, especially Steppin Out, the instrumental, this really caught my ear

Bluesbreakers .... Yardbirds .... definitely a great era for English rnr

82% Best: All Your Love; Hideaway; Key To Love; Steppin' Out Must-Hear? Sure. Obviously, fuck Clapton. Sometimes you just gotta separate the art from the artist.

Early Clapton is the only Clapton.

Fav: Key To Love Least Fav: Another Man Dreaded this album but no, it’s actually pretty good even with Eric Clapton

Great album, but Clapton is a dingus

Great introduction to EC as a true blues man (moreso than Yardbirds) and JM always brings energy and credibility to the material. Excellent

This album connects the dots....

This was good. Lots of twelve-bar blues, and everything was smooth, well-recorded, inventive in terms of rhythms and some new takes on familiar songs. I liked the injection of the Drive My Car riff in one of the tracks (I forget which), and the Ray Charles cover was solid, in a very distinct, bluesy way. It was good, and I listened to it almost a full two times through. Four stars.

Classic 1960s blues

Really a wonderful album of emotion-forward American music--classics with a rag-tag feel. Raw human sound that makes me pine for live shows.

Buen disco algunas falopas

This was a wild LP to have and a sold genre piece!

Great blues album. Seems to be a transition album between traditional blues and 70s rock like Zeppelin and others.

Blues Breakers has more diversity than the typical blues album, and if I ever get into an argument with someone who claims the blues is a highly limited form of music, this is the album I will use to counter that argument

Stuff to listen to at a picnic

it's the blues, man

Pretty generic riffing, but the best execution I've heard of this style. Premium background tunes.

A very good album. I really enjoyed listening to it. The band name was previously unknown to me, in contrast to many of the numerous band members. The album won't find a place in my active long-term memory, but the band will. 4/5

I really enjoyed this album, great riffs from Clapton. Great Blues album

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Standard blues rock. Which I can dig.

I could listen to this stuff all day.

I really like this. Apparently a lot of people don’t like it because Eric Clapton plays on it. Seems kinda weird.