Noooo!!!
Another great musical legend shuffles off this mortal coil.
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A Hard Road was the Mayall album that burned into my musical subconscious as a youngster. I think we only had it on cassette. I just loved it to death. The variety on the album is staggering. From boisterous uptempo rollickers, to fabulous moody numbers, like The Super-Natural, the downright spooky There’s Always Work, and this gem:
Of course, dad had a vinyl copy of The Blues Breakers. And it’s a brilliant album. But Hard Road tops it, for me.
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Here are a few images of Mayall, looking damnably cool.
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I’m listening to Hard Road again, thinking of the genius that was John Mayall, and digging each and every track.
I’ve been meaning to get the The First Generation 1965-1974 boxed set for aeons. But it’s always been to expensive. And now he’s dead? It’ll probably only go up!
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