JOHN MAYALL & THE BLUEBREAKERS - PADLOCK ON THE BLUES

PADLOCK ON THE BLUES

JOHN MAYALL & THE BLUEBREAKERS

SONGWRITER: JOHN MAYALL

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: PADLOCK ON THE BLUES

LABEL: EAGLE RECORDS

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 1999

John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers were an English blues rock band, led by singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist John Mayall, OBE. Mayall used the band name between 1963 and 1967, but then dropped it for some fifteen years. However, in 1982 a 'Return of the Bluesbreakers' was announced, and the name was in use until the band again dissolved in 2008, to be resurrected again in 2009. The name has become generic, without a clear distinction between recordings that are to be credited to Mayall alone and recordings that are to be credited to Mayall and his band. The Bluesbreakers have included musicians such as:

Eric Clapton (April–August 1965, November 1965–July 1966) and Jack Bruce, both later reuniting in Cream

Peter Green (July 1966-July 1967), who departed with Mick Fleetwood (April–July 1967) and then also enticed original bassist John McVie a few weeks later to form Fleetwood Mac

Mick Taylor (summer 1967–July 1969), who later joined the Rolling Stones, and reunion tours in 1982–83 and 2004

Harvey Mandel, Walter Trout, Larry Taylor (Mandel, Trout and Taylor left Canned Heat to join Mayall)

Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Randy Resnick, Aynsley Dunbar

Dick Heckstall-Smith, Tony Reeves and Jon Hiseman (later of Colosseum)

Andy Fraser (Free), Chris Mercer (Juicy Lucy), Henry Lowther, Johnny Almond and Jon Mark (later of Mark-Almond)

I got a padlock on the blues

And I got the key to open up my mind

Unlock it what's inside me?

I never know just what I'll find

When it comes to my emotions

I got the blues of every kind

People ask, "Why don't you sing the blues

With a voice full of gravel and growl?"

I say, "I got my own style

And when I sing you're gonna hear that howl

I got to go with what I got

And what I got won't let me down"

Sometimes I stop to wonder

What some critics out there would have me do

But beware the green gods of envy

Pay no attention see it through

That's why I'm depending on you, people

Yes, I mean you and you and you and you.