1967 studio album by John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
A Hard Road
Studio album by
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
Released
17 February 1967[1]
Recorded
11, 12, 19 & 24 October; 11 November 1966
Studio
Decca Studios, London[2]
Genre
Blues rock[3]
Length
37:13 (original) 79:22 (2006 reissue)
Label
Decca (UK) London (U.S.)
Producer
Mike Vernon
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers chronology
Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (1966)
A Hard Road (1967)
The Blues Alone (1967)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source
Rating
Allmusic
[1]
Rolling Stone
(Highly Positive)[4]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
[5]
Living Blues
(Positive)[6]
About.com
[7]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings
[8]
A Hard Road is the third album (and second studio album) recorded by John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, released in 1967. It features Peter Green on lead guitar, John McVie on bass, Aynsley Dunbar on drums and John Almond on saxophone. Tracks 5, 7 and 13 feature the horn section of Alan Skidmore and Ray Warleigh. Peter Green sings lead vocals on "You Don't Love Me" and "The Same Way".
The album reached #8 on the UK album charts which is Mayall's third biggest chart next to Bare Wires and Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton which reached #3 and #6, respectively.[9]
The cover art and the original LP sleeve design are by Mayall. In 2003 and 2006 two different expanded versions of the album were released.
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^"John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers* – A Hard Road (Vinyl, LP, Album) at Discogs". Discogs.com. 15 May 2011. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
^"The Top 30 British Blues Rock Albums of All Time". Classic Rock. Future plc. 23 March 2007. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
^Saunders, Mike (7 December 1968). "Records". Rolling Stone. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc.
^Larkin, Colin (30 September 2013). The Virgin Encyclopedia of The Blues. Random House. ISBN 9781448132744.
^Larkin, Colin (25 May 2018). "Living Blues". cduniverse.com. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
^"Peter Green, Blues Guitarist". thoughtco.com.
^Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. Penguin. p. 427. ISBN 978-0-140-51384-4.
^"Type in "John Mayall" under "Name of Artist"". Everyhit.com. 16 March 2000. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
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