Crusade (album)

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Crusade
Mike Vernon
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers chronology
The Blues Alone
(1967) 		Crusade
(1967) 		The Diary of a Band Volume 1
(1967)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic
[1]
Rolling Stone(Negative)[2]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings[3]

Crusade is the fourth album and third

Mike Vernon. The album was the first recordings of the then-18-year-old guitarist Mick Taylor
.

Track listing

Original release

All songs by John Mayall except as noted.

  1. "Oh, Pretty Woman" (A. C. Williams) – 3:40
  2. "Stand Back Baby" – 1:50
  3. "My Time After Awhile" (Ron Badger, Sheldon Feinberg, Robert Geddins) – 5:15
  4. "Snowy Wood" (Mayall, Mick Taylor) – 3:41
  5. "Man of Stone" (Eddie Kirkland) – 2:29
  6. "Tears in My Eyes" – 4:20
  7. "Driving Sideways" (Freddie King, Sonny Thompson) – 4:03
  8. "The Death of J. B. Lenoir" – 4:27
  9. "I Can't Quit You Baby" (Willie Dixon) – 4:35
  10. "Streamline" – 3:19
  11. "Me and My Woman" (Gene Barge) – 4:05
  12. "Checkin' Up on My Baby" (Sonny Boy Williamson II) – 3:59

Expanded release

  1. "Curly (edit)" (Peter Green)
  2. "Rubber Duck" (Peter Green, Aynsley Dunbar)
  3. "Greeny" (Peter Green)
  4. "Missing You" (Peter Green)
  5. "Please Don't Tell"
  6. "Your Funeral and My Trial" (Sonny Boy Williamson II)
  7. "Double Trouble" (Otis Rush)
  8. "It Hurts Me Too" (Malvene R. London)
  9. "Suspicions (Part One)"
  10. "Suspicions (Part Two)"

Other versions

An expanded edition includes ten more tracks, seven of them already available on the 1971 compilation Thru the Years, though Curly, an energetic guitar instrumental, is edited by more than a minute on Crusade. These recordings were made with earlier lineups, except two versions of "Suspicions", recorded later with a band similar to the Crusade lineup. A remastered and expanded version of this album was scheduled for release in the UK on 6 August 2007.

Personnel

John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers

with:

  • Chris Mercer – tenor saxophone (except tracks 13–20)
  • Rip Kant – baritone saxophone (except tracks 13–22)
  • Peter Green – lead guitar (tracks 13–20)
  • drums
    (tracks 13–18)
  • drums
    (tracks 19–20)
  • Paul Williams – bass guitar (tracks 21–22)
  • Dick Heckstall-Smith – tenor and soprano saxophone (tracks 21–22)

References

  1. ^ "( Crusade > Overview )". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 17 June 2010.
  2. ^ Rolling Stone, April 6, 1968
  3. ISBN 978-0-140-51384-4
    .

External links
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