John Mayall – Looking Back
(Decca Records 1969 SKL5010 Stereo)
UK Pressing
Front Laminated Sleeve (not gatefold) in Nr MINT condition
– small original price sticker on back at top
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
John Mayall, OBE (born 29 November 1933) is an English blues singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, whose musical career spans over fifty years. In the 1960s, he was the founder of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band which has included Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Peter Green, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Mick Taylor, Don “Sugarcane” Harris, Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor, Aynsley Dunbar, Hughie Flint, Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Andy Fraser, Johnny Almond, Walter Trout, Coco Montoya and Buddy Whittington.
Looking Back is the seventh album released by John Mayall in August 1969 by Deram and Decca Records . The album features song by both John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and John Mayall solo work. The album reached No. 79 on the Billboard 200. Confusingly, there are two different albums with the title “Looking Back”: a Deram release as a single album and a Decca release as a double album.
Track listings
| Side one | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original release | Length | ||||||
| 1. | “Mr. James” | John Mayall | B-side of Decca F11900 | 2:55 | ||||||
| 2. | “Blues City Shake Down” | Mayall | B-side of Decca F12120 | 2:23 | ||||||
| 3. | “They Call It Stormy Monday” | T-Bone Walker | Previously unreleased | 4:36 | ||||||
| 4. | “So Many Roads” | Paul Marshall, Paul Williams | B-side of Decca F12506 | 4:46 | ||||||
| 5. | “Looking Back” | Johnny “Guitar” Watson | A-side of Decca F12506 | 2:37 | ||||||
| 6. | “Sitting in the Rain” | Mayall | A-side of Decca F12545 | 2:59 | ||||||
| Side two | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original release | Length | ||||||
| 1. | “It Hurts Me Too” | Mel London, Hudson Whittaker | B-side of Decca F12621 | 2:57 | ||||||
| 2. | “Double Trouble” | Otis Rush, M. Melka | A-side of Decca F12621 | 3:22 | ||||||
| 3. | “Suspicions, Part 2” | Mayall | B-side of Decca F12684 | 5:29 | ||||||
| 4. | “Jenny” | Mayall | B-side of Decca F12732 | 4:38 | ||||||
| 5. | “Picture on the Wall” | Mayall | A-side of Decca F12732 | 3:02 | ||||||
Personnel
Performers
- All tracks
- John Mayall – Lead vocals, piano, organ, guitar, harmonica
- The Blues Breakers
- Bernie Watson – Lead guitar on “Mr. James”
- Roger Dean – Guitar on “Blues City Shakedown”
- Eric Clapton – Lead guitar on “They Call It Stormy Monday”
- Peter Green” – Lead guitar on “Looking Back” and “So Many Roads”
- Mick Taylor – Lead guitar on “Sitting in the Rain” and all of side two.
- John McVie – Bass guitar on tracks 1 and 4–9.
- Jack Bruce – Bass guitar on “They Call It Stormy Monday”
- Andy Fraser – Bass guitar on “Jenny” and “Suspicions, Part Two”
- Tony Reeves – Bass guitar
- Keef Hartley – Drums on “So Many Roads”, “Looking Back” and “Sitting In The Rain”
- Martin Hart – Drums on “Mr. James”
- Hughie Flint – Drums
- Aynsley Dunbar – Drums
- Other Musicians
- Malcolm Poole – Bass guitar
- Colin Allen – Drums
- John Almond – Flute, saxophone
Production
- John Mayall – Producer
- Mike Vernon – Producer
- Tony Clarke – Producer on “Blues City Shakedown”
- Bob Gordon – Photography
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