John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers – Up Close And Personal: Live In Texas (CD) collector's item and his ongoing duo work

and his ongoing duo work with John Hurlbut strips that legacy down to its most intimate form

a reliable sanctuary where the band would ultimately play 52 shows

now genre-defining work The Universe Smiles Upon You

Company In My Back (3:50)

What Sly Stone delivered in 1971 was a deliberate unraveling

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers – Up Close And Personal: Live In Texas (CD) collector's item and his ongoing duo workJohn Mayall spent decades running the Bluesbreakers as a proving ground for British blues guitar royalty, but by the late '90s he had settled into a road hardened quartet built for the long haul. Buddy Whittington, his Texas born guitarist of that era, brought a deep roots sensibility that fit naturally in Houston's blues rooms, giving these 1998 and 1999 club performances a lived in authority that studio recordings rarely capture. Up Close And