Back to the Roots (John Mayall album) explained

Back to the Roots
Type:Studio album
Artist:John Mayall
Cover:Backtotherootsalbum.jpg
Released:March 1971
Recorded:15–25 November 1970
Studio:Larrabee Sound Studios; IBC Studios, London
Genre:Blues
Label:Polydor
Producer:John Mayall
Prev Title:USA Union
Prev Year:1970
Next Title:Memories
Next Year:1971

Back to the Roots is a 1971 double album by John Mayall released on Polydor.[1] Recording sessions took place both in California and London where Mayall invited some former members of his band, notably guitarists Eric Clapton and Mick Taylor. At the end of the 1980s Mayall remixed some tracks and issued them along with some of the older material as Archives to Eighties. An expanded two-CD version of Back to the Roots now includes both the original and later remixed versions of the tracks.

Besides Mayall, who sang and played piano, harmonica and guitar, the musicians whorecorded the original tracks were:

For Archives to Eighties Mayall recorded new bass and drums tracks played by Bobby Haynes and Joe Yuele.

Track listing

All tracks written by John Mayall.

Original LP release

Side A
  1. "Prisons on the Road" – 4:18
  2. "My Children" – 5:10
  3. "Accidental Suicide" – 6:17
  4. "Groupie Girl" – 3:53
  5. "Blue Fox" (instrumental) – 3:43
Side B
  1. "Home Again" – 4:56
  2. "Television Eye" – 7:32
  3. "Marriage Madness" – 3:36
  4. "Looking at Tomorrow" – 6:57
Side C
  1. "Dream with Me" – 5:21
  2. "Full Speed Ahead" – 5:21
  3. "Mr. Censor Man" – 4:44
  4. "Force of Nature" – 6:34
  5. "Boogie Albert" (instrumental) – 2:15
Side D
  1. "Goodbye, December" – 5:24
  2. "Unanswered Questions" – 4:42
  3. "Devil's Tricks" – 7:45
  4. "Travelling" – 4:42

2001 2-CD re-release track listing

CD 1
  1. "Prisons on the Road" - 4:18
  2. "My Children" - 5:10
  3. "Accidental Suicide" - 6:17
  4. "Groupie Girl" - 3:54
  5. "Blue Fox" - 3:43
  6. "Home Again" - 4:57
  7. "Television Eye" - 7:32
  8. "Marriage Madness" - 3:37
  9. "Looking at Tomorrow" - 6:57
  10. "Accidental Suicide" (remix) - 6:25
  11. "Force of Nature" (remix) - 5:34
  12. "Boogie Albert" (remix) - 2:16
  13. "Television Eye" (remix) - 6:09
CD 2
  1. "Dream with Me" - 5:22
  2. "Full Speed Ahead" - 5:22
  3. "Mr Censor Man" - 4:45
  4. "Force of Nature" - 6:34
  5. "Boogie Albert" - 2:16
  6. "Goodbye December" - 5:25
  7. "Unanswered Questions" - 4:42
  8. "Devil's Trick" - 7:46
  9. "Travelling" - 4:43
  10. "Prisons on the Road" (remix) - 4:20
  11. "Home Again" (remix) - 4:59
  12. "Mr Censor Man" (remix) - 4:45
  13. "Looking at Tomorrow" (remix) - 6:56

Tracks 10, 11, 12 & 13 on each CD are the Archives to Eighties overdubbed versions

All track listings taken from the album's liner notes and sleeves

Charts

Chart (1971)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[2] 44
United Kingdom (Official Charts Company)[3] 31

Personnel

Technical

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: discography . Johnmayall.com . 2009-08-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120121145259/http://www.johnmayall.com/disco.html . 2012-01-21 . dead .
  2. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 195.
  3. Web site: JOHN MAYALL | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company. Officialcharts.com. 20 May 2021.
  4. Web site: Back to the Roots - John Mayall | Credits | AllMusic. 20 May 2021. AllMusic.

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