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.