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artist: john mayall
title: the turning point
date: 2001
label: Polydor
genre: Blues
rls. date: Mar/03/2004
tracks: 10
bitrate: VBRkbps
size: 88,9 MB
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Recorded just after Mick Taylor departed for the Rolling
Stones, Mayall eliminated drums entirely on this live
recording. With mostly acoustic guitars and John Almond on
flutes and sax, Mayall and his band, as his typically overblown
liner notes state, "explore seldom-used areas within the
framework of low-volume music." But it does work. The
all-original material is flowing and melodic, with long, jazzy
grooves that don't lose sight of their bluesy underpinnings.
Lyrically, Mayall stretches out a bit into social comment on
"The Laws Must Change" on this fine, meditative mood album. The
2001 CD reissue is a definite upgrade, though perhaps not
enough to make you rush out and buy a new copy, in its addition
of three previously unreleased bonus tracks from the same
performance. Those are all respectable songs that fit in well
with the rest of the set, particularly "Sleeping by Her Side"
with its catchy and dreamy flute line, and the brisk "Don't
Waste My Time," which has a nearly country & western feel. The
newly added historical liner notes are another plus. ù Richie
Unterberger
-All Music Guide
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01-the laws must change [07:22]
02-saw mill gulch road [04:40]
03-i'm gonna fight for you j.b. [05:28]
04-so hard to share [07:05]
05-california [09:31]
06-thoughts about roxanne [08:21]
07-room to move [05:04]
08-sleeping by her side [05:10]
09-don't waste my time [04:55]
10-can't sleep this night [06:20]
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63:56 min
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