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Crusade (album)

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Released
  
1 September 1967

Producer
  
Mike Vernon

Genre
  
Blues rock

Release date
  
1 September 1967

Label
  
London Records

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Recorded
  
12 July 1967 at Decca West Hampstead studios

Length
  
45:50 (original) 79:09 (2007 reissue)

Crusade (1967)
  
The Diary of a Band Volume 1 (1968)

Artists
  
John Mayall, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers

Similar
  
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers albums, Blues rock albums

Crusade is the fourth album and third studio album by the British blues rock band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, released on 1 September 1967 on Decca Records. It was the follow-up to A Hard Road, also released in 1967. As with their two previous albums, Crusade was produced by Mike Vernon. The album was the first recordings of a young 18-year-old guitarist, Mick Taylor.

Contents

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" (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, most of them already available on the 1971 compilation Thru the Years; these recordings were made with earlier line ups. A remastered and expanded version of this album was scheduled for release in the UK on 6 August 2007.

Personnel

  • John Mayall – vocals, organ, piano, harmonica, bottleneck guitar
  • Mick Taylor – lead guitar
  • John McVie – bass guitar
  • Keef Hartley – drums
  • Chris Mercer – tenor sax
  • Rip Kant – baritone sax
  • Peter Green - lead guitar (tracks 13-20)
  • Mick Fleetwood - drums (tracks 13-20)

    • Songs

    1Oh - Pretty Woman3:41
    2Stand Back Baby1:50
    3My Time After Awhile5:15

    References

    Crusade (album) Wikipedia
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