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WHEN I WAS 17 I was the font of all blues knowledge in my circle of guitar-playing friends. After all, I had heard both the John Mayall albums, one featuring Eric Clapton and the other Peter Green, so of course I knew it all. I was even ignorant of the fact that Mayall was one of the most prolific of all blues artists. But I’d learn.
Anyway, one day my sister brought home a blues compilation on the budget Ace Of Clubs label, with artists like Otis Spann, Paul Butterfield, and loads of other names I’d never heard of (I did live in a tiny Northumberland village, it has to be said).