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JOHN MAYALL with ERIC CLAPTON

and JOHN McVIE, HUGHIE FLINT

plus JOHN ALMOND, ALAN SKIDMORE, DENNIS HEALEY

Major British blues bandleader who, starting in London in 1963, featured some of the most successful 

rock musicians of the '60s and '70s. As the elder statesman of British blues, it is John Mayall's lot to be more 

renowned as a bandleader and mentor than as a performer in his own right. Throughout the '60s, his band, 

the Bluesbreakers, acted as a finishing school for the leading British blues-rock musicians of the era. 

Guitarists Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and Mick Taylor joined his band in a remarkable succession in the mid-'60s, 

honing their chops with Mayall before going on to join Cream, Fleetwood Mac, and the Rolling Stones, respectively. 

John McVie and Mick Fleetwood, Jack Bruce, Aynsley Dunbar, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Andy Fraser (of Free), 

John Almond, and Jon Mark also played and recorded with Mayall for varying lengths of times in the '60s

"BLUES BREAKERS"

<1968/1969 press, originally published in 1966>

 Produced by Mike Vernon

LP     DECCA RECORDS      MONO   LK 4804

MADE IN ENGLAND    ORIGINAL COPY BUT 2ND PRESSING

Most likely second mono press with exact labels as first pressing but with NO deep-groove & different run-out grooves.

This version: Late 60s second pressing on red/silver, not grooved "unboxed/ffrr ear" Decca labels.

The date "1966" at 6 o'clock on label.

[Original UK first pressing has the date "1966" at the left of the hole on label].

The ones with the date at the bottom and non grooved label is a later pressing.

[Decca had used this label design from the end of 1968 through the 1969].

With Red/White Decca inner sleeve with printed "Made in England  R.S.   10-69".

Released in a laminated (on front) single cover, without flipback.

 The tax code is printed on the runout, on both sides.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL:  DECCA -  RED LABEL & UNBOXED DECCA LOGO - SILVER TEXT

Catalog on cover: (front, spine & rear) MONO LK 4804

Catalog on labels: LK.4804 (ARL.7297) / LK.4804 (ARL.7298)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): ARL-7297-1A

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): ARL-7298-1A

Other (Runout, on both sides, Stamped): JT

On labels: top rim text reads "Made in England ? The Decca Record Co. Ltd."

bottom rim text reads "All Rights.........Prohibited"

DECCA (REGD.)

LONG PLAYING ffrr (ear)

full frequency range recording

BIEM NCB (boxed)

M.C.P.S.

?1966   on both labels (on the labels the release year appears at 6 o'clock circa)

J/T

On Back Sleeve: Notes by Nel Slaven

© 1966, The Decca Record Company Limited, London.

Printed in England by MacNeill Press, London, S.E.1.

Laminated with 'Clarifoil' made by British Celanese Limited

tracklisting

Side 1: ALL YOUR LOVE - HIDEAWAY - LITTLE GIRL

ANOTHER MAN - DOUBLE CROSSIN' TIME - WHAT'D I SAY

Side 2: KEY TO LOVE - PARCHMAN FARM - HAVE YOU HEARD

RAMBLIN' ON MY MIND - STEPPIN' OUT - IT AIN'T RIGHT

  grading

RECORD NEAR EX but (please, also read above description) 

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

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. Standing midway between Clapton's stint with the Yardbirds 

and the formation of Cream, this album featured the new guitar hero on a series of stripped-down blues standards, 

Mayall pieces, and one Mayall/Clapton composition, all of which had him stretching out in the idiom for the first time

 in the studio. This album was the culmination of a very successful year of playing with John Mayall, a fully 

realized blues creation, featuring sounds very close to the group's stage performances, and with no compromises. 

Credit has to go to producer Mike Vernon for the purity and simplicity of the record; most British producers 

of that era wouldn't have been able to get it recorded this way, much less released. One can hear the very direct 

influence of Buddy Guy and a handful of other American bluesmen in the playing. And lest anyone forget the rest 

of the quartet: future pop/rock superstar John McVie and drummer Hughie Flint provide a rock-hard rhythm section,

and Mayall's organ playing, vocalizing, and second guitar are all of a piece with Clapton's work. 

His guitar naturally dominates most of this record, and he can also be heard taking his first lead vocal, 

but McVie and Flint are just as intense and give the tracks an extra level of steel-strung tension and power, 

none of which have diminished across several decades...(AllMusic)