John Mayall With Eric Clapton – Blues Breakers (1966) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2011 # UIGY-9043] {SACD ISO + FLAC 24bit/88.2kHz}

Features the 2010 DSD mastering based on UK original analog tape. Reissue features the high-fidelity SHM-SACD format (fully compatible with standard SACD player, but it does not play on standard CD players). DSD Transferred by Kevin Vanbergen.

Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton was Eric Clapton’s first fully realized album as a blues guitarist — more than that, it was a seminal blues album of the 1960s, perhaps the best British blues album ever cut, and the best LP ever recorded by John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. Standing midway between Clapton’s stint with the Yardbirds and the formation of Cream, this album featured the new guitar hero on a series of stripped-down blues standards, Mayall pieces, and one Mayall/Clapton composition, all of which had him stretching out in the idiom for the first time in the studio. This album was the culmination of a very successful year of playing with John Mayall, a fully realized blues creation, featuring sounds very close to the group’s stage performances, and with no compromises. Credit has to go to producer Mike Vernon for the purity and simplicity of the record; most British producers of that era wouldn’t have been able to get it recorded this way, much less released. One can hear the very direct influence of Buddy Guy and a handful of other American bluesmen in the playing. And lest anyone forget the rest of the quartet: future pop/rock superstar John McVie and drummer Hughie Flint provide a rock-hard rhythm section, and Mayall’s organ playing, vocalizing, and second guitar are all of a piece with Clapton’s work. His guitar naturally dominates most of this record, and he can also be heard taking his first lead vocal, but McVie and Flint are just as intense and give the tracks an extra level of steel-strung tension and power, none of which have diminished across several decades.

Tracklist:
01 – All Your Love
02 – Hideaway
03 – Little Girl
04 – Another Man
05 – Double Crossing Time
06 – What’d I Say
07 – Key To Love
08 – Parchman Farm
09 – Have You Heard
10 – Ramblin’ On My Mind
11 – Steppin’ Out
12 – It Ain’t Right

DSD Transferred from analogue master tapes by Kevin Vanbergen at FX Copyroom.

SACD ISO

JhnMayallBluesBreakersWithEricClaptn1966Japan2010SHMSACDIS.part1.rar
JhnMayallBluesBreakersWithEricClaptn1966Japan2010SHMSACDIS.part2.rar

FLAC 24bit/88.2kHz

JhnMayallBluesBreakersWithEricClaptn1966Japan2010FLAC2488.2.rar