Noooo!!!
Another great musical legend shuffles off this mortal coil.
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.
Here are a few images of Mayall, looking damnably cool.
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!
