John Mayall News Archives

John Mayall, the father of British blues will perform in Kelowna Nov. 12. Mayall is releasing a new CD, Tough, on Sept.15 - his 57th to date.

London, John Mayall Critic rating Description: A performance by the Macclesfield-born blues guitarist and songwriter, with his touring band.

When two nonprofits get together for an event that benefits each, it's really a special relationship.

THIS might be the blues, but 75-year-old John Mayall and his merry band look like they're having the time of their lives.

MARYPORT Blues Festival will take its place on the national stage when highlights of the event are broadcast on a special BBC Radio 2 programme this summer.

Legendary British blues rock band Savoy Brown, who pioneered the movement in England in the mid-'60s, alongside artists such as Eric Clapton and John Mayall, paving the way for bands like Led Zeppelin, will be headlining the annual Riverhead Blues Music Festival the weekend of July 18 and 19.

Sometimes a mix of the old and the new is a formula yielding timelessness. The latest soulful and rollicking incarnation of John Mayall and his blues-based sidekicks, assembled just a few months back, reportedly assures a new album due out this fall.

All Of me: The Betrayal of Billie Holiday Tuesday, Radio 2, 10:30pm Friday Night Is Music Night Friday, Radio 2, 7:30pm John Mayall's Blues Adventure Tuesday, Radio 4, 1:30pm FIFTY YEARS after the death of jazz vocalist Billie Holiday, singer Neneh Cherry looks back at a bizarre yet momentous year in the icon's life in All Of Me: The Betrayal of ...

Barry Murphy returns once more trawl the TV and radio guides to find anything worth tuning into this week.

I SAID when I last reviewed bluesman John Mayall for this newspaper in 1995 that the then 61-year-old looked good for a few more years of on-stage productivity, and so it has proved.