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This was the first album by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, whose ever-changing line up had temporarily stabilized as John Mayall (vocal, harmonica, guitar, 9-string guitar), Roger Dean (guitar), John McVie (bass) and Hughie Flint (drums), and it was recorded live. Klooks Kleek was at the Railway Hotel, next door to Decca's recording studios in West Hampstead. The club's compère Johnny Gunnell, together with his brother Rik Gunnell, persuaded Decca's engineers to run cables from an open studio window into the club, enabling studio quality sound in an environment in which the band excelled, and so their gig of Monday 7 December 1964 was preserved for posterity. At the time, the band (with a different guitarist and drummer) had released only one single, Crawling Up A Hill, which opened the live set, and they also previewed Crocodile Walk, their second single, which came out in April 1965, shortly after the album was released.

For the live recording the band was augmented by Nigel Stanger on tenor sax, plus some appropriate novelty slide sax sounds on The Hoot Owl and Chicago Line. Both of these and most of the rest of the record are John Mayall songs not recorded elsewhere, mostly in Chicago and country blues styles, and there is also a strange mash up of Night Train and Lucille.

To the original album have been appended five bonus tracks. These are both sides of the two singles, all in their original mono (stereo mixes of both sides of the second single can be found on London Blues), plus My Baby Is Sweeter. This was recorded at the same session as the Crocodile Walk single but wasn't released until 1971, and is the only stereo track on this CD. Amazon-Kunde

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

R. & B. Time

6.1 Night Train Written By Jimmy Forrest, Lewis C. Simpkins, Oscar Washington

6.2 Lucille Written By Albert Collins, Richard Penniman

7 Crocodile Walk

8 What's The Matter With You

9 Doreen

10 Runaway

11 Heartache

12 Chicago Line

Bonus Tracks

13 Crawling Up A Hill

14 Mr. James

15 Crocodille Walk

16 Blues City Shakedown

17 My Baby Is Sweeter Written By Willie Dixon