Tracks Padlock on the Blues
- Hard Road
- I've Got To Talk To You
- My Country Girl
- When The Blues Are Bad
- Bad Dream Catcher
- Padlock On The Blues
- Don't Turn Your Back
- Ain't No Surrender
- White Line Fever
- Strip
- Somebody's Watching
- Dancing Shoes
- Always A Brand New Road
Publisher: Eagle Release date: 2002-05-01 RRP: £14.99 Price: £9.74
Review Padlock on the Blues / John Mayall:John Mayall can't get no respect, if "Always a Brand New Road" off of Padlock on the Blues is any indication. The autobiographical song makes mention of what most Mayall fans already know-his not inconsiderable talents have been eclipsed by the much more prominent successes of former Bluesbreakers like Peter Green, Mick Taylor, and Eric Clapton. But Mayall doesn't let it get him down-nor should he. This time around, he's got Joe Sublett playing sax, Tommy Eyre on organ, Buddy Whittington on guitar, and even guest spots from John Lee Hooker on "Somebody's Watching" and "Bad Dream Catcher. " Then there's Mayall's own skills on piano and harmonica; if his vocals-never his greatest strength-leave something to be desired, he more than makes up for it as an instrumentalist. Just listen to the piano solo on "Dancing Shoes," or the excellent harp work on "Always a Brand New Road. " The piano opening of the title track is eerily reminiscent of the Who's "Love Reign O'er Me," at least until it slams into as satisfying a slow blues as one could wish for. There's something nourishing about Mayall's brand of blues, and Padlock definitely satisfies. -Genevieve Williams.
Publisher: Cd97000 Release date: 2002-03-04 RRP: £4.99 Price: £2.33
Review Big Boss Man / Eric Clapton:
Tracks Smash Hits
- Crosstown Traffic
- Manic Depression
- Hey Joe
- Stone Free
- Remember
- Foxey Lady
- Can You See Me
- The Wind Cries Mary
- Purple Haze
- All Along The Watchtower
- Fire
- Red House
Publisher: Warner Bros. Release date: 2002-08-20 Price: £7.99
Review Smash Hits / Jimi Hendrix Experience:
Publisher: Laserlight Release date: 2001-11-01 Price: £4.99
Review Eric Clapton (With the Yardbirds and Jimmy Page) / Eric Clapton:
Tracks Winter Heat
- Coming up Fast, Pt. 2
- Going Down Slow
- Living in the Blues
- Gone for Bad
- Suicide Won't Satisfy
- Avocado Green
- Ballad of Bertha Glutz
- Birds Can't Row Boats
- You Know I Love You
- Blue Suede Shoes
- Coming up Fast, Pt. 1
- School Day Blues
- Sloppy Drunk
- Ice Cube
- Easy Lovin' Girl
- I Wonder If I Care as Much
- That's What Love Does
- Tramp
- Don't Drink Whiskey
- Mistress
Publisher: Mil RRP: £22.99 Price: £13.89
Review Winter Heat / Johnny Winter:
Tracks At Abbey Road 1963-1966
- One In The Middle
- That's All I Ever Want From You Baby
- Sha La La (Make Me Happy)
- Hubble Bubble Toil And Trouble
- Cock A Hoop
- Ain't That Love
- That's All I Ever Want From You
- Come Tomorrow
- If You Gonna Go Go Now
- What Am I To Do
- Why Should We Not
- What Did I Do Wrong
- John Hardy
- What Are You Gonna Do
- Pretty Flamingo
- What Am I Doing Wrong
- 54321
- I Can't Believe What You Say (2)
- I Can't Believe What You Say
- Stay Around
- You're Standing By
- Without You
- Brother Jack
- Doo Wah Diddy Diddy
- You Gave Me Somebody To Love
- Poison Ivy
- Now You're Needing Me
- Oh No Not My Baby
Publisher: EMI Release date: 1997-10-13 RRP: £8.99 Price: £2.92
Review At Abbey Road 1963-1966 / Manfred Mann:
Tracks Where the Action Is: Radio Sessions 1965-1968
- Heart Full Of Soul (2)
- Shapes Of Things (2)
- Train Kept A Rollin'
- Goodnight Sweet Josephine
- Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
- My Baby
- Mister You're A Better Man Than I
- Still I'm Sad
- I'm Not Talking
- Love Me Like I Love You
- Hang On Sloopy
- I'm A Man
- I'm A Man (2)
- I Wish You Would
- Little Games
- My Baby (2)
- I Ain't Done No Wrong
- Over Under Sideways Down (2)
- For Your Love
- Shapes Of Things (3)
- Drinking Muddy Water
- I Ain't Got You
- Scratch My Back
- Too Much Monkey Business
- Smokestack Lightnin'
- Sun Is Shining
- Evil Hearted You
- Think About It
- Heart Full Of Soul
- You Go Your Way
- Dust My Blues
- Mister You're A Better Man Than I (2)
- Over Under Sideways Down
- Shapes Of Things
- Little Games (2)
Publisher: Burning Airlines Release date: 1999-10-01 RRP: £9.99 Price: £39.49
Review Where the Action Is: Radio Sessions 1965-1968 / Yardbirds:
Tracks Time Traders
- Downsize Blues (Repossess My Body)
- Real World
- Wild Dogs
- Time Keeps Slipping Away
- (Down the Road of) Temptation
- Uganda Woman
- Shadow on My Door
- Home
- Running After You
- Lies
- Feeling Good
- Underway
Publisher: Spitfire Price: £17.99
Review Time Traders / Peter Splinter Group Green:Considering the congenial, journeyman-like figure he cuts on Time Traders, ex- Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green went on a long, strange trip to this point. Having made the Mac huge with "Albatross", Green suffered a crisis of conscience, demanded the band give away most of their earnings to starving African children and when they refused, quit the band. He went on to suffer from schizophrenia before finding mid-nineties rehabilitation with the combo he fronts here-returning to his British blues roots. There's little for lovers of fusion or the avant-garde to chew on in Time Traders. Mostly, it's a 21st-century rehash of a 1960s retread of a 1930s genre. These tracks are generally penned by band members Peter Stroud, Nigel Watson and pianist Roger Cotton, wandering down familiar blues highways and alleyways and-in the case of "Downsize Blues"-chiming in with a bit of rueful, middle-aged humour. Green contents himself with some deft but unprepossessing solo work, which is a shame, as his one contribution-the slow-flowing, "Albatross"-esque "Underway"-is probably the most mind and genre-expanding track on the album. -David Stubbs.
Tracks The Ep Collection
- LSD
- London Town
- Rosalyn
- Mama Keep Your Big Mouth Shut
- Get A Buzz
- Can't Stand The Pain
- Judgement Day
- Big City
- I Can Never Say
- Raining In My Heart
- Honey I Need
- We'll Be Together
- Sittin' All Alone
- Me Needing You
- Roadrunner
- Buzz The Jerks
- Midnight To Six Man
- Big Boss Man
- Gonna Find A Substitute
- House In The Country
- Progress
- Get The Picture
- We'll Play House
- Don't Bring Me Down
- Come See Me
- Cry To Me
Publisher: See for Miles Release date: 2000-03-26 RRP: £13.99 Price: £17.99
Review The Ep Collection / Pretty Things:
Tracks Savage Eye
- Theme For Michelle
- Remember That Boy
- Dance All Night
- It Isn't Rock 'n' Roll
- Tonight
- Drowned Man
- My Song
- Under The Volcano
- Sad Eye
- Love Me A Little
- It's Been So Long
- I'm Keeping
Publisher: Snapper Release date: 1998-11-16 RRP: £8.99 Price: £12.40
Review Savage Eye / Pretty Things:
Tracks Accept No Substitute
- Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
- Gift of Love
- Love Me a Little Bit Longer
- Dirty Old Man
- I Can't Take It Much Longer
- Ghetto
- When the Battle Is Over
- Soldiers of the Cross
- Get Ourselves Together
- Someday
Publisher: Imports RRP: £18.99 Price: £12.75
Review Accept No Substitute / Delaney & Bonnie:
Publisher: Disky RRP: £4.99 Price: £4.99
Review Rock & Pop Legends Series / Johnny Winter:
Tracks The Pretty Things
- Moon Is Rising
- Don't Bring Me Down
- Judgement Day
- 13 Chester Street
- Oh Baby Doll
- Get Yourself Home
- Roadrunner
- Big City
- Mama Keep Your Big Mouth Shut
- Rosalyn
- Big Boss Man
- Pretty Thing
- Unknown Blues
- She's Fine She's Mine
- Honey I Need
- We'll Be Together
- I Can Never Say
- Don't You Lie To Me
Publisher: Snapper Release date: 1998-04-27 Price: £8.99
Review The Pretty Things / Pretty Things:
Tracks Lovin' Up a Storm
- One Long Kiss
- Burn Up
- Fabulous
- Dixie Fried
- Rave On
- Lovin' Up A Storm
- Livin' Lovin' Wreck
- Breathless
- Down The Line
- Think It Over
- Everything I Do Is Wrong
- Everyday
- Boll Weevil Song
- Lonely Weekends
Publisher: Armoury Release date: 2004-04-05 RRP: £6.99 Price: £24.13
Review Lovin' Up a Storm / Jimmy Page & John Paul Jones:
Tracks A Stone's Throw
- Morning Comes
- Lost in the Desert
- Losing My Faith
- Blind Willie McTell
- Blues in the Morning
- Here Comes the Rain
- Never Fall in Love Again
- Twisted Sister
- Secret Affair
- Late at Night
Publisher: Sensible UK Release date: 2000-02-08 RRP: £11.99 Price: £62.38
Review A Stone's Throw / Mick Taylor:
Tracks Roadshow
- Baby What You Want Me To Do
- Lost and Gone
- Mama Talk To Your Daughter
- John Lee Boogie
- Road Show
- A Big Man
- Reaching For A Mountain
- Mexico City
- Why Worry
Publisher: Magnum Release date: 2000-04-03 RRP: £12.99 Price: £9.99
Review Roadshow / John Mayall:
Tracks Silk Torpedo
- Atlanta
- LANTA
- Singapore Silk Torpedo
- Singapore Silk Torpedo (2)
- Joey
- Is It Only Love
- Bridge Of God
- Belfast Cowboys
- Dream
- Dream/Joey
- Maybe You Tried
- Come Home Momma
Publisher: Snapper Release date: 1998-11-16 RRP: £8.99 Price: £7.99
Review Silk Torpedo / Pretty Things:
Tracks The Turning Point
- Room To Move
- Saw Mill Gulch Road
- I'm Gonna Fight For You JB
- So Hard To Share
- California
- Thoughts About Roxanne
- Laws Must Change
Publisher: Universal Release date: 1987-08-01 RRP: £9.99 Price: £5.96
Review The Turning Point / John Mayall:
Tracks Getting Better All the Time
- Everlasting Love
- Cold Cold Heart
- Love Is A Stranger - Pittman, Barbara & The Sunrays
- I'm Getting Better All The Time
- No Matter Who's To Blame
- Everlasting Love
- No Matter Who's To Blame
- Just One Day
- Cold Cold Heart
- Lonely Hours - Pittman, Barbara & The Sunrays
- I'm Getting Better All The Time
- No Matter Who's To Blame
- Two Young Fools In Love
- Sentimental Fool
- I'm Getting Better All The Time
- I'm Getting Better All The Time
- I'm Getting Better All The Time
- Eleventh Commandment
- Two Young Fools In Love
- Take My Sympathy
- Handsome Man
- Sentimental Fool
- I Forgot To Remember To Forget
- Take My Sympathy
- Voice Of A Fool
- Sentimental Fool
- I Need A Man
Publisher: Snapper Release date: 1999-02-22 RRP: £16.99 Price: £4.98
Review Getting Better All the Time / Barbara Pittman:
Tracks Blue Eyes Blue [CD 1]
Publisher: Wea Release date: 1999-10-25 RRP: £4.99 Price: £1.95
Review Blue Eyes Blue [CD 1] / Eric Clapton:
| Models & Brands: Padlock on the Blues, Big Boss Man, Smash Hits, Eric Clapton (With the Yardbirds and Jimmy Page), Winter Heat, At Abbey Road 1963-1966, Where the Action Is: Radio Sessions 1965-1968, Time Traders, The Ep Collection, Savage Eye, Accept No Substitute, Rock & Pop Legends Series, The Pretty Things, Lovin' Up a Storm, A Stone's Throw, Roadshow, Silk Torpedo, The Turning Point, Getting Better All the Time, Blue Eyes Blue [CD 1] |