John Mayall – The First Generation 1965-1974 35CD Box Set

John Mayall – The First Generation 1965-1974

There are box sets and then there are BOX SETS. John Mayall’s The First Generation 1965-1974 set sits firmly in the latter category, being substantial both in the artefacts contained within and the superb music it encompasses.

The first set of this size to be released documenting John Mayall’s early years sees not only all albums from his much lauded formative career, but also unreleased tracks aplenty. Featuring Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Harvey Mandel, Blue Mitchell, Jon Mark and many more outstanding musicians, this mammoth package contains 35 CDs, a beautiful hardback book and much more.

Not for nothing did Mayall earn the moniker ‘Godfather of the British Blues’. For a short but compelling time in the 60s and 70s he recognised raw talent, took it in, nurtured it, and everyone thrived and benefitted as a result. Many of the best musicians of the period passed through the hallowed ranks of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. All are on show here in a stunning set crammed with musical highlights.

Put together with John Mayall’s full co-operation, the full list of contents is as follows:
• 35 DISCS, inc. 3 CD singles & 8 previously unreleased discs, alongside newly remastered versions of the original Decca & Polydor albums
• MUSIC FROM SEVEN UNRELEASED GIGS (inc. Windsor 1967, Gothenburg 1968, Berlin 1969 and San Francisco 1970)
• 28 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED BBC TRACKS featuring Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor
• HARDBACK BOOK inc. many rare photos and memorabilia plus a full gig listing for the period
• INDIVIDUALLY SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH
• FAN CLUB BOOK of letters and correspondence
• 2 REPLICA POSTERS - Ten Years Are Gone and 1968 tour poster
• REPLICA PRESS PACK for John Mayall Plays John Mayall

Tracklist:
CD1: John Mayall Plays John Mayall
1. Crawling Up a Hill
2. I Wanna Teach You Everything
3. When I'm Gone
4. I Need Your Love
5. The Hoot Owl
6. R&B Time: Night Train/Lucille
7. Crocodile Walk
8. What's the Matter With You
9. Doreen
10. Runaway
11. Heartache
12. Chicago Line
13. Crocodile Walk (Single Version)

CD2: I'm Your Witchdoctor / Telephone Blues
1. I'm Your Witchdoctor
2. Telephone Blues

CD3: Lonely Years / Bernard Jenkins
1. Lonely Years
2. Bernard Jenkins

CD4: Blues Breakers
1. All Your Love
2. Hideaway
3. Little Girl
4. Another Man
5. Double Crossing Time
6. What'd I Say
7. Key To Love
8. Parchman Farm
9. Have You Heard
10. Ramblin' On My Mind
11. Steppin' Out
12. It Ain't Right

CD5: Blues Breakers
1. All Your Love
2. Hideaway
3. Little Girl
4. Another Man
5. Double Crossing Time
6. What'd I Say
7. Key To Love
8. Parchman Farm
9. Have You Heard
10. Ramblin' On My Mind
11. Steppin' Out
12. It Ain't Right
13. Intro Into Maudie
14. It Hurts To Be In Love
15. Have You Ever Loved a Woman
16. Bye Bye Bird
17. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man

CD6: All My Life
1. All My Life
2. Ridin' On the L and N
3. Little By Little
4. Eagle Eye

CD7: A Hard Road
1. A Hard Road
2. It's Over
3. You Don't Love Me
4. The Stumble
5. Another Kinda Love
6. Hit the Highway
7. Leaping Christine
8. Dust My Blues
9. There's Always Work
10. The Same Way
11. The Supernatural
12. Top of the Hill
13. Some Day After Awhile (You'll Be Sorry)
14. Living Alone

CD8: Crusade
1. Oh, Pretty Woman
2. Stand Back Baby
3. My Time After Awhile
4. Snowy Wood
5. Man of Stone
6. Tears In My Eyes
7. Driving Sideways
8. The Death of J.B. Lenoir
9. I Can't Quit You Baby
10. Streamline
11. Me and My Woman
12. Checkin' Up On My Baby
13. Rubber Duck

CD9: The Blues Alone
1. Brand New Start
2. Please Don't Tell
3. Down the Line
4. Sonny Boy Blow
5. Marsha's Mood
6. No More Tears
7. Catch That Train
8. Cancelling Out
9. Harp Man
10. Brown Sugar
11. Broken Wings
12. Don't Kick Me
13. Brand New Start (First Version)
14. Marsha's Mood (First Version)

CD10: The Diary Of A Band Volume One
1. Blood On the Night
2. Edmonton - Cooks Ferry Inn (Impromptu)
3. I Can't Quit You Baby
4. Medley: Anzio Annie, Snowy Wood, the Lesson, Keef Hartley &
5. My Own Fault
6. God Save the Queen

CD11: The Diary Of A Band Volume Two
1. Gimme Some Lovin / the Train
2. Crying Shame
3. Local Boys Makes Good - Speech Only / Impromptu
4. Help Me
5. Blues In B Flat
6. Soul of a Short Fat Man

CD12: Bare Wires
1. Bare Wires Suite
2. I'm a Stranger
3. No Reply
4. Hartley Quits
5. Killing Time
6. She's Too Young
7. Sandy
8. Intro - Look At the Girl
9. Start Walkin`

CD13: Blues From Laurel Canyon
1. Vacation
2. Walking On Sunset
3. Laurel Canyon Home
4. 2401
5. Ready To Ride
6. Medicine Man
7. Somebody's Acting Like a Child
8. The Bear
9. Miss James
10. First Time Alone
11. Long Gone Midnight
12. Fly Tomorrow
13. 2401 (Single Version)
14. Wish You Were Mine (Live)

CD14: Looking Back
1. Mr James
2. Blues City Shake Down
3. They Call It Stormy Monday
4. So Many Roads
5. Looking Back
6. Sitting In the Rain
7. It Hurts Me Too
8. Double Trouble
9. Suspicions
10. Jenny
11. Picture On the Wall

CD15: The Turning Point
1. The Laws Must Change
2. Saw Mill Gulch Road
3. I'm Gonna Fight For You J.B.
4. So Hard To Share
5. California
6. Thoughts About Roxanne
7. Room To Move
8. Sleeping By Her Side
9. Don't Waste My Time
10. Can't Sleep This Night

CD16: Empty Rooms
1. Don't Waste My Time
2. Plan Your Revolution
3. Don't Pick a Flower
4. Something New
5. People Cling Together
6. Waiting For the Right Time
7. Thinking of My Woman
8. Counting the Days
9. When I Go
10. Many Miles Apart
11. To a Princess
12. Lying In My Bed

CD17: USA Union
1. Nature's Disappearing
2. You Must Be Crazy
3. Night Flyer
4. Off the Road
5. Possessive Emotions
6. Where Did My Legs Go
7. Took the Car
8. Crying
9. My Pretty Girl
10. Deep Blue Sea

CD18: Back To The Roots
1. Prisons On the Road
2. My Children
3. Accidental Suicide
4. Groupie Girl
5. Blue Fox
6. Home Again
7. Television Eye
8. Marriage Madness
9. Looking At Tomorrow
10. Dream With Me
11. Full Speed Ahead
12. Mr Censor Man
13. Force of Nature
14. Boogie Albert

CD19: Bonus Remixes
1. Goodbye December
2. Unanswered Questions
3. Devil's Tricks
4. Travelling
5. Accidental Suicide (Remix)
6. Force of Nature (Remix)
7. Boogie Albert (Remix)
8. Television Eye (Remix)
9. Prisons On the Road (Remix)
10. Home Again (Remix)
11. Mr Censor Man (Remix)
12. Looking At Tomorrow (Remix)

CD20: Thru The Years
1. Crocodile Walk
2. My Baby is Sweeter
3. Crawling Up a Hill
4. Mama, Talk To Your Daughter
5. Alabama Blues
6. Out of Reach
7. Greeny
8. Curly
9. Missing You
10. Please Don't Tell
11. Your Funeral and My Trial
12. Suspicions
13. Knockers Step Forward
14. Hide and Seek

CD21: Memories
1. Memories
2. Wish I Knew a Woman
3. The City
4. Home In a Tree
5. Separate Ways
6. The Fighting Line
7. Grandad
8. Back From Korea
9. Nobody Cares
10. Play the Harp

CD22: Jazz Blues Fusion
1. Country Road
2. Mess Around
3. Good Times Boogie
4. Change Your Ways
5. Dry Throat
6. Exercise In C
7. Got To Be This Way

CD23: Moving On
1. Worried Mind
2. Keep Our Country Green
3. Christmas 71
4. Things Go Wrong
5. Do It
6. Moving On
7. Red Sky
8. Reasons
9. High Pressure Living

CD24: Ten Years Are Gone
1. Ten Years Are Gone
2. Driving Till the Break of Day
3. Drifting
4. Better Pass You By
5. California Campground
6. Undecided
7. Good Looking Stranger
8. I Still Care
9. Don't Hang Me Up
CD25: Ten Years Are Gone
1. Introduction
2. Sitting Here Thinking
3. Harmonica Free Form
4. Burning Sun
5. Dark of the Night

CD26: The Latest Edition
1. Gasoline Blues
2. Perfect Peace
3. Going To Take My Time
4. Deepdown Feelings
5. Troubled Times
6. The Pusher Man
7. One of the Few
8. Love Song
9. Little Kitten
10. A Crazy Game

CD27: BBC Recordings 
Saturday Club, April 26 1965
1. Crawling Up a Hill
2. Heartache
3. Crocodile Walk
4. Bye Bye Bird
Saturday Club, October 25 1965
5. I'm Your Witchdoctor
6. Cheatin' Woman
7. Big Town Playboy
8. Parchman Farm
9. Nowhere To Turn
 Jazz Beat, February 9 1966
10. Little Girl
11. Hideaway
12. Tears In My Eyes
13. Parchman Farm
BBC Saturday Club, March 14 1966
14. Burning My Fingers
15. All Your Love
16. Stepping Out
17. On Top of the World
18. Key To Love
BBC Saturday Club, January 23 1967
19. Leaping Christine
20. Sitting In the Rain
21. Curly
22. Ridin' On the L and N
23. Dust My Blues

CD28: Rhythm & Blues, February 3 1967
1. No More Tears
2. Curly
Top Gear, October 30 1967
3. The Last Time
4. Suspicions
5. Worried Love
6. Supermarket Day
7. Snowy Wood
8. Jenny
Blues In Britain (broadcast as The Blues Roll On), March 4 1968
9. Sweet Sixteen
10. Interview With Alexis Korner
11. Another Man's Land
Top Gear, March 26 1968
12. Picture On the Wall
13. Knockers Step Forward
14. The Last Time
15. Rock Me Baby
16. Oh, Pretty Woman
Radio One Club, November 12 1968
17. Long Gone Midnight
18. It Hurts Me To Leave

CD29: Bromley Technical College 1967
1. Brand New Start
2. Tears In My Eyes
3. Bye Bye Bird
4. Mama, Talk To Your Daughter
5. Double Trouble
6. Your Funeral and My Trial
7. Stand Back Baby
8. Some Day After Awhile (You'll Be Sorry)
9. Looking Back

CD30: Live 1967 Marquee Club, London, April 27 1967
1. Chicago Line (Unedited)
2. Your Funeral and My Trial
Ram Jam Club, London, April 28 1967
3. Four Million Knobs
4. Mama, Talk To Your Daughter
5. Intro/Chicago Line
6. Hi Heel Sneakers
7. San-Ho-Zay
Klooks Kleek, London, (most likely) May 2 1967
8. Curly
9. Mama, Talk To Your Daughter
10. Telephone Blues
Manor House, London, May 5 1967
11. Brand New Start
12. Your Funeral and My Trial
13. Bad Boy
14. The Stumble

CD31: Seventh National Jazz & Blues Festival, Windsor 1967
1. Driving Sideways
2. I Can't Quit You Baby
3. Sonny Boy Blow
4. Stand Back Baby
5. Oh, Pretty Woman
6. It's My Own Fault
7. Ridin' On the L and N

CD32: Gothenburg 1968
1. Oh Baby
2. Baby You're Wrong
3. Worried About You
4. Somebody's Acting Like a Child
5. Ooh Wee Baby (Don't Know What To Do)
6. It Hurts Me To Leave
7. Hey Little Girl (Walking Down the Street)

CD33: Berlin 1969
1. Intro
2. Variation On Somebody's Acting Like a Child
3. Baby Child
4. Checkin' Up On My Baby
5. When I Lost My Baby Child
6. 2401
7. Treat Me This Way
8. Goin' Down the Road
9. Ready To Ride
10. Help Me Baby
11. When I See My Baby

CD34: Bremen 1969
1. Got a Pretty Baby
2. Checkin' Up On My Baby
3. Parchman Farm
4. The Time Has Come (
5. 2401

CD35: Fillmore West 1970
1. Everybody Wants To Know
2. Band Intros
3. What's the Matter With You
4. Travelling Man
5. I've Got To Be With You Tonight
6. Honey Hush

Label: Madfish
Released: 2021