John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers – Up Close And Personal: Live In Texas (CD) collector's item with Randy Meisner

with Randy Meisner

a reliable sanctuary where the band would ultimately play 52 shows

Remastered by David Glasser with Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction

and open-ended play

and his ongoing duo work with John Hurlbut strips that legacy down to its most intimate form

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers – Up Close And Personal: Live In Texas (CD) collector's item with Randy MeisnerJohn Mayall spent decades running the Bluesbreakers as a proving ground for British blues guitar royalty, but by the late '90s he had settled into a road hardened quartet built for the long haul. Buddy Whittington, his Texas born guitarist of that era, brought a deep roots sensibility that fit naturally in Houston's blues rooms, giving these 1998 and 1999 club performances a lived in authority that studio recordings rarely capture. Up Close And