It’s been a long while since we’ve done a British Blues show, so here we go with Volume 11, this week entitled “Looking Back” (mainly because the John Mayall song with that title is the first track heard!).
When I was growing up, the first blues music I heard was not the Chicago blues or that of Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson or BB King; nope, the first blues tunes to which I was exposed was reconstituted and regurgitated and came by way of England, so John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Ten Years After, the REAL Fleetwood Mac, Savoy Brown and others were part of my musical upbringing. Thankfully, these artists pointed the way to the originals. Woke Up This Morning!
(We realize that the second and third track on tonight's episode is by Livin Blues, a band from The Netherlands rather than England, but as their music indeed had that Authentic British Blues feel, they have been included.) Poster: https://captainmaniacgraphics.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/colinepisode249_britishblues11.jpg
