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A Hard Road
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1. A Hard Road - John Mayall, Mayall, John
2. It's Over - John Mayall, Mayall, John
3. You Don't Love Me - John Mayall, Cobbs, Willie
4. The Stumble - John Mayall, King, Freddie
5. Another Kinda Love - John Mayall, Mayall, John
6. Hit the Highway - John Mayall, Mayall, John
7. Leaping Christine - John Mayall, Mayall, John
8. Dust My Blues - John Mayall, James, Elmore
9. There's Always Work - John Mayall, Mayall, John
10. The Same Way - John Mayall, Green, Peter [1]
11. The Supernatural - John Mayall, Green, Peter [1]
12. Top of the Hill - John Mayall, Mayall, John
13. Someday After a While (You'll Be Sorry) - John Mayall, King, Freddie
14. Living Alone - John Mayall, Mayall, John
15. Evil Woman Blues - John Mayall, Green, Peter [1]
16. All My Life - John Mayall, Robinson, Jimmy Lee
17. Ridin' on the L & N - John Mayall, Burley, Dan
18. Little by Little - John Mayall, London, Mel
19. Eagle Eye - John Mayall, Mayall, John
20. Looking Back - John Mayall, Watson, Johnny [1]
21. So Many Roads - John Mayall, Paul, Marshall
22. Sitting in the Rain - John Mayall, Mayall, John
23. Out of Reach - John Mayall, Green, Peter [1]
24. Mama Talk to Your Daughter - John Mayall, Atkins, Alex
25. Alabama Blues - John Mayall, Lenoir, J.B.
26. Curly - John Mayall, Green, Peter [1]
27. Rubber Duck - John Mayall, Green, Peter [1]
28. Greeny - John Mayall, Green, Peter [1]
29. Missing You - John Mayall, Green, Peter [1]
30. Please Don't Tell - John Mayall, Mayall, John
31. Your Funeral and My Trial - John Mayall, Williamson, Sonny B
32. Double Trouble - John Mayall, Rush, Otis
33. It Hurts Me Too - John Mayall, London, Mel
34. Jenny - John Mayall, Mayall, John
35. Picture on the Wall - John Mayall, Mayall, John
36. First Time Alone - John Mayall, Mayall, John
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A Hard Road
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2003-09-23)
- Publisher: Polydor / Umgd
- Label: Polydor / Umgd
- Format: Original recording remastered
- Studio: Polydor / Umgd
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 11 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #31307
Avg. Customer Review:
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: What a pleasure to hear Peter Green in this remastered gem! 2008-06-07
Comment: The real question is "sonically" how does this "Remastered" CD sound.... That's what most care about, how was it remastered, was the mix done well, and of course, the music....I just listened to a 1969 live Mac show, a great show as a matter of fact. Peter Green what a master playing live, just entrancing, killer playing....However, the mix really sucked...John McVie bass can not even be heard throughout the CD... and Fleetwoond's drums were mixed so annoyingly out in front, one could never miss Mick's pounding bass drum playing on every cut, and that's the ONLY bass one hears on the whole Album...it's as if McVie just took the night off....or the sound board mixer was a drummer who believes drums are the lead instrument. Green's guitar comes through well, but it was still behind the drums. What a way to ruin an otherwise great live performance of Fleetwood Mac at their peak in early February 1969.
However, on John Mayall's A Hard Road.....Bluesbreaker John McVie's very steady bass playing comes though loud & clear. "A Hard Road" may even be the best of all British blues albums ever recorded, including blues albums from Clapton, Lee, Page, Simmons, Beck, etc. This CD is excellent, and may even rate with any of the top rock/blues albums ever recorded, all with such feeling, not bad for British boys...Everyone was on top of their game here, great songs arrangements & engineering - RS 1968 - "Peter Green stands out just as much as Mayall on this album, as Green is such a clear contrast to Eric Clapton on the Blues Breakers. Here Green makes impeccable use of great phrasing above anything else; his style comes out in many places as very relaxed as opposed to Clapton's strong attack.....Like Green's playing on the slow songs on A Hard Road such as "The Same Way" and "Someday After A While" Green's style on cuts like this is beautiful and relaxed, a real contrast to Clapton's savage frantic-ness on Blues Breakers on "Have You Heard" for example.
Peter Green can also play savage Claptonesque guitar - Just listen to Green's 12 bars on "Dust My Blues." Green's technique is certainly very good too - His playing on the instrumental "the Stumble" makes that very clear." Very hot!
And YES, the Remastered sound is as excellent as the music. A truly great & classic CD remastered.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: A young Peter Green 2007-10-27
Comment: A young Peter Green (actually Greenbaum) approaching the height of his career, enhanced by Mick Fleetwood on drums and John McVie on bass, and led by the great John Mayall. Does any more need to be said? A must for all Green and Mayall fans.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: One of the Greatest 2007-07-17
Comment: Peter Green had some big shoes to fill, but he did it very nicely. This is a MUST have cd for PG fans, or fans of the blues guitar. This contains everything that PG did with John Mayall. This is great!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Excellent reissue 2007-05-08
Comment: This is a reissue of the classic 1966 album with Peter Green, John McVie and Aynsley Dunbar supporting John Mayall. The music remains as great as it was forty years ago with some excellent Mayall songs and great Green guitar all backed by the excellent rhythm section. The additions from odd sessions and single releases are an icing on the cake. If you like British 60's electric blues and you do not already have this cd, then you need to buy it!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Man... all of the tracks with "Greeny" plus! 2007-04-17
Comment: Woah.....this is just stunning!
Peter Green's whole set of tracks from the original album,plus all the cool tracks he was on from "Looking Back" and other compilation albums too,....PLUS out-take tracks that made me wonder where the band's heads were when they passed-up on them for the original release!
This is all killer,and leads you right up to Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac years. The sound is punchy and has a warmth that was missing from past re-issues of this material too.
I didn't realize that this collected all those other tracks from various 1970's "comp" albums.But when I got it home and started listening and reading the liner notes,...WOW It's your one stop shopping spot for Peter Green's formative recordings!
Highly recommended! John Mayall's life in music did NOT end when "God",ooops,I mean Clapton left.
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