Mayall, John - Back To The Roots

RARE/2HAND VINYL LP ON POLYDOR 1971

Polydor 2675 011 made in Scandinavia in gatefold cover with 24 pages big booklet. Vinyl NM. Cover NM.

It's a sign of either how far downhill music has gone in 30 years, or how underrated he was as a singer in the first place, but John Mayall's voice comes off extremely well in this long-delayed CD reissue of Back to the Roots. The original double-LP set was an immediate favorite with Mayall fans, a relatively small but hardy bunch scattered around the globe -- but Polydor in the U.S., apparently anticipating a lot of demand (probably owing to the presence on the album of Eric Clapton and Mick Taylor, then in the first flush of major stardom as a full-fledged member of the Rolling Stones, who had just reached the pinnacle of their careers as well), pressed far too many copies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mayall

Tracklist

LP1

01. Prisons On The Road (Original Album Version) - with Eric Clapton
02. My Children
03. Accidental Suicide (Original Album Version) - with Eric Clapton
04. Groupie Girl
05. Blue Fox
06. Home Again (Original Album Version) - with Eric Clapton
07. Television Eye (Original Album Version)
08. Marriage Madness
09. Looking At Tomorrow (Original Album Version) - with Eric Clapton
10. Accidental Suicide (Remix) - with Eric Clapton
11. Force Of Nature (Remix) - with Eric Clapton
12. Boogie Albert (Remix)
13. Television Eye (Remix)
LP 2
01. Dream With Me
02. Full Speed Ahead
03. Mr. Censor Man (Original Album Version)
04. Force Of Nature (Original Album Version)
05. Boogie Albert (Original Album Version)
06. Goodbye December - with Eric Clapton
07. Unanswered Questions
08. Devil's Tricks
09. Travelling