MY FIRST LOVE
John Mayall THE BLUES ALONE
By Peter Garrett
The Midnight Oil mastermind on a John Mayall classic.
In Australia we had this thing called The Record Club. You could join it by paying, say, five dollars a month or something, and every month two or three records would be delivered. I was fourteen or fifteen, and John Mayall’s The Blues Alone was the first record I ordered. I don’t even know why I ordered it, but I absolutely loved it. To this day I still love all his stuff. He had a lot of great musicians playing with him, a lot of great black musicians, although this was him playing nearly everything.