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Monday, September 29, 2025

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - with Mick Taylor - Windsor, England 1967 | Floppy Boot Stomp

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - with Mick Taylor - Windsor, England 1967

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - with Mick Taylor
Balloon Meadow

7th Annual National Jazz & Blues Festival
Windsor, England
August 13, 1967

A Silent Way Special


In memory of veteran bluesman John Mayall, who passed at age of 90
John Mayall died on 22 July 2024

Bluesbreakers 1967: 
John Mayall - Vocals, Harmonica
Mick Taylor - Guitar
John McVie - Bass 
Keef Hartley - Drums
Chris Mercer - Tenor Sax
Rip Kant - Tenor Sax

Set List:
1- Driving Sideways (Instrumental)
2- I Can't Quit You Baby
3- Sonny Boy Blow
4- Stand Back Baby
5- Oh Pretty Woman
6- It's My Own Fault
7- Ridin' On The L&N (Encore)


Pretty sure we went to this with my older brother Steve. Windsor 

was the precusor to th Reading Festival which changed from a Blues 

base to Rock and endured its move across cities and venues, 

The National Jazz and Blues Festival started here in Windsor 

I think and was still called that before changing fields into the 

centre of Reading  . . . . . we saw Keef Hartley a lot around then 

and Jon Hiseman et al with John Mayall the father to them all. 

I have said before but it was having an older brother who turned

 me onto early blues at 13 Big Bill Leadbelly Josh White etc being 

preciocious favourites but the discovery of Mayall and Alexis 

Korner came as a revelation that there were 

Blue Men Singing the Whites!



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