John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Plays John Mayall (Live)-60th Anniversary EditionRSD 25 Release For Record Store Day 2025 Decca celebrates the legacy of John Mayall with a new remaster of his debut record John Mayall Plays John Mayall. This incredible live performance was recorded at the Klooks Kleek in London in 1964 and was released in 1965 marking the 60th anniversary of the album. This release also includes bonus tracks, on vinyl for the first time previously found on the Deluxe CD version of the album. The album includes

Like her 1962 debut

This unique new package features: Original gatefold art

Stay Another Season

I’m Being Good

and the third (Skinty Fia) is about Irishness dislocated in the diaspora

fibre and space to it

the primal scream of vocalist and founder Stephen Lawrie cutting through unsuspecting audiences like butter through a knife

whether one of transformation or one of succumbing

The album was recorded amidst convoluted inter-band relationships

its assemblage of reconfigured and recontextualised aural sources preceded the sample clearance system that later emerged in the music industry

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