Saturday Sounds - John Mayall - The Turning Point

British blues pioneer, Joh Mayall, died earlier this week at the age of 90. He was best known for his first band, The Blues Breakers, which was an incubator for a generating of British blues musicians and featured at various points, Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and Mick Taylor. He had a long career, performing and recording well into this century. I saw him perform once in the 1980s at the Ontario Place Forum with Mick Taylor as the opening act, a truly inspired double bill. 

I heard his first album while was still in high school as we were lucky to have an AM  DJ (Norm Blakely) who played a lot of non-top-40 music, including blues. I didn't really get into his music until I heard his second album, The Turning Point, which was getting heavy rotation on WABX-FM in Detroit. It was recorded live and has a softer, more acoustic sound that Mayall's first album. Enjoy.