Bluesbreakers

Clapton's one of those artists I keep at arm's length unless he does something too good to ignore. This barely touches my fingernails when I haven't cut them for months. Soulless, hooksless, pointless. The worst kind of formalism.

YES!

Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton was Eric Clapton's first fully realized album as a blues guitarist -- more than that, it was a seminal blues album of the 1960s, perhaps the best British blues album ever cut, and the best LP ever recorded by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.

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

A fun blues-rock romp, and a nice look at some the earliest musings of the genre, but it isn't an album that Ill be coming back to in full very often.

Some ok blues, nothing too exciting for me

Discazo de blues con Clapton dándolo todo. Guitarras de locura.

Well that's what I expect from rock music in 60s. Really great album. Even though It's not enough for a 5, I will definetely come back to it.

How many blues rock albums are there on this list? And how many claim to be the influence for every band thereafter who dared make songs using the pentatonic scales? Give me a break! Unless you’re led zeppelin and actually used blues music to make incredible adaptations and improvisations, then I’ve heard you before and you bored me the first time. 1 Star!

3/5 chillish blues, but ultimately not that good.

White boy blues at its finest

Classic

Some funky blues. Some of it reminded me of The Black Keys

It wasn't bad, but I guess I wasn't drawn to it.

Love a bit of blues. Not something I’d return to that much, but enjoyed the guitar skills.

A pleasant rift of the harmonica blues along with Eric Clapton

Definitely some great guitar skills and people with a strong legacy. Not hugely exciting for me though. Would have been a Howard fortunate 3 if it wasn't for the 70s racism and anti COVID lockdown nonsense. 5/10

A good old, classic blues rock album.

Mad skills.

Only got halfway thru

No me creo que el álbum sea del 66, vaya solos de guitarra... Locurote.

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

This is blues through and through. Great guitar and electric organ. Blues is great in person, but just is not my bag for headphones listening. I did enjoy the presence of Clapton.

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

I'm sure this is a great example of blues but I just find it a bit forgettable. It ain't right is a banger though

Sounded exactly how I expected it to. By no means bad, just a decent blues rock album

Egh

Great guitar riffs but too jammy for my taste.

very unobtrusive

3.3 - Is this British dudes ripping off electrified American blues music and amping up the lead guitar? Hey, I know this sound! Some masterful playing on here; however, if you duck into any dive bar in the French Quarter in New Orleans on a Wednesday night, you can hear this music played live while you drink a $3 Budweiser.

Esta bien, clásico y bien

Blues rock at its finest. Not a fan of the genre, but you can feel the emotion and authenticity in these young Mayall, Clapton and co. A record to let it soak into your skin

Perfectly inoffensive, some good sounds, and great playing from the band. I probably won't revisit it, but I am sure it belongs on the list for being some earlier Bluesy classic rock.

“Blues Breakers” by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers (1966) This album is an essential piece of the history of recorded music. Featuring guitar work by Eric Clapton and bass performance by John McVie (later the “Mac” of Fleetwood Mac), “Blues Breakers” helped carry African American blues through England, and then into the cultural consciousness of the late twentieth century musical world. And it arrived just in time to serve as a cultural corrective to the Anglo-American ‘victory years’. What is “blues” and why is it important? The blues style is a feature of melodic composition which colors the major chord progression by lowering the expected pitch of the third, fifth, or seventh note by half a tone, giving the song a ‘mournful’ mood, or an ironic accent. Ask a musician to play “Three Blind Mice” with a few “blue” notes thrown in, and it will change forever the way you hear contemporary music. This compositional innovation come through the American South in the 19th century (likely originating in Africa). Slaves and their descendants popularized the style in spirituals, love songs, laments, and ballads. It’s very timely that this album came up for me on a June 19th. Nazis hated the blues, for very good reason. The music here deliberately incorporates blues stylings (frequently including another blues feature, the AAB verse structure—can you identify it?) into songs arranged for rock and roll instrument combinations (drums, bass, guitar, and keyboards). John Mayall’s voice has significant flaws (e.g., he frequently hits the non-blue notes with a flat pitch, seriously diminishing the blues effect). But the keyboard, guitar, and bass consistently deliver classic blues rock. Clapton provides lead blues licks (rapid scales, artful bends and superhuman sustain) with unsurpassed mastery. The drum solo work on “What’d I Say” is very weak, and indicative of the fact that blues rock drumming (think John Bonham of Led Zeppelin) developed later than keyboards and guitars. This is probably not music that you’ll want to play in the background while you work, nor is it catchy or danceable. But it is part of the foundation of much of the music we love. Makes you want to shrug off the temptation to world domination. These guys were pioneers. Good music for when I’m too tight (and too white). 3/5

Really liked it!

Meh. Eric's guitar is cool, but man is the blues boring. god damn. this album would be a good exercise to pick apart just the guitar parts and clapton's playing, but really I'm bored out of my mind

I didn't know this album, although it sounds like a classical. It was a very pleasable experience listen to it and it's easy to see their influence on modern songs.

Disco imprescindible en la historia del blues.

Such great bluesey music, takes me back to Lincoln Park... smokey, dingy, bars with $2 old style longnecks.

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

Good album but lacking a little bit lyrically. Guitar playing is phenomenal

As a very fair weather blues man, I have never heard of these guys. Groovy but wore on me after 1/2 album.

Sssssokay? Better than some of these albums. The blues aren't my jam, but this was fine? The drum solos were terrible.

it's alright i suppose

Meh, kinda wish I hadn't listened to the whole album. 1 or 2 ok songs with a decent drum solo but honestly this album isn't worth a second listen.

Good background blues

This is a fine album, but I'm not sure when I'd want to listen to it. I like Cream better, and if I wanted to listen to blues, I'd rather listen to the original artists.

incredible - an album from my childhood days. My brother bought it at the time and I listened along, because he always listened to his music a little louder. John Mayall and Eric Clapton, 2 blues musicians of the extra class

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*

Yeah good blues

Nada que decir, discazzo

3.5 | Clapton que obviamente es la única razón por la que se recuerda el disco (porque seamos honestos ni sus nietos han de recordar a John Mayall) es un virtuoso, eso lo sabemos, es innegable y sus solos son inventivos, adornados y con amplia habilidad. El disco es muy disfrutable como disco de blues, el pero que le pondría es que hasta ahí llega. Todas las canciones básicamente son estándares de blues viejos tocados de manera competente con un guitarrista excelente; pero guitarristas de blues excelentes hay chingos, hay muchísimas maneras de escuchar estas canciones y si bien este disco es una muy buena no creo ni siquiera que sea la mejor. Recopilación muy buena de blues pero realmente de aquí todavía no se acerca a lo que haría después haciendo sus propias canciones; una cosa es ser virtuoso pero aquí no hay lo inventivo de Layla, ni el impacto de Cocaine, ni el sentimiento de Tears in Heaven ni tantas otras que aparte de lucir su técnica de guitarrista muestran calidad creativa más allá de qué tanto puede torcer los dedos.

How many bands have Clapton been in? This one is not his best.

My kind of music. Reminds me of Sunday morning prep work at Tres

false

Pretty diverse blues sound. Enjoyable.

lots of blues, didn't finish

Love the guitar work by Eric Clapton. Easy to see why he was considered a guitar god.

Ultimate classic

Love clapton, like classic blues. Feels like a transitional record between stripped down basement blues and rock and roll. Almost happens throughout the records. Is that the Daytripper riff!?

Otro sólido 4.7 cómo no.

Cool

Si señor, tenga sus 5!

Feel like this album is only here because of where the members ended up after. Which is significant for sure. So that's blues, eh?

Alright. Songs don't sound that good

Didn't listen. Well I got three tracks in and it was all horrible white man blues and then the the guy started singing 'You're gonna be my little girl, you've been through 18 years of pain' which really creeped me out. Zero on all counts. Zero zero zero zero zero

60s rock and roll

Little girl

3.5| Bueno, sabemos que casi todo es obra de Clapton. Es una banda de Blues muy blues, me gusta mucho como van las rolas aunque aún no destellaba ese poder de Clapton. No sabía que estuvo también McVie tu qué grandes sorpresas nos tendrían un nos años después de su aventura en los bluebreakers

Un disco entero dedicado a hacer que la guitarra de Eric Clapton destacara y de hecho lo hace muy bien y se convierte en un disco que vale la pena, especialmente a quien le gusta el blues, pero creo que puede funcionar muy bien con otro público. Cortito y al punto, pero creo que vale la pena, de la versión extendida del 2001, una rola compuesta en su totalidad por Clapton que me gustó más que otras del disco.

Guitar is just awesome

Great British blues

This is some fine ass tunes.

Decent old blues/rock big-band album. Solid harmonica jams.

very interesting

not my cup of tea

Bluesy, tasty riffs with lots of soulful vocals.

Fun bluesy guitar. Not quite a complete package though, feels more like a jam session than an album.

Straight dirty blues

I don't want to "dislike" this album, but I just couldn't get into it.

Maybe it’s just blues fatigue, but this record wasn’t one I would put on the “1001 albums you NEED to listen to”... it’s, well, fine? Surely sound like the blues, and that music is so influential on all modern music, but just sounds like a bunch of white dudes cosplaying as Delta musicians

I'm just not a blues guy. It all sounds the same.

Fun

Very long but classic

No way am I gonna listen to fuckin Eric Clapton

I think this album is really well done — I've never really listened to blues before, and while it's certainly white people music, it's pretty funky and the harmonica + the beat create a really nice little sound. Again, it's not really my thing, but definitely deserves a 3.

4 and a half

Loved this album. I could hear where this album influenced so many other albums.

tjanksgiving is suhc a lame holiday god. so fuckign lame!!!!! this album isnt that lame though even though all evidence points to it being lame. cover is kind of uglt and the genre is "British Blues" . laaaaame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the guitar on here owns though. everything elese also isnt too bad. a little hit or miss just since most of the slower stuff on here is not awesome. whatever