Favorite John Mayall album?

[pumpkinman]

Really an impossible task for me to choose a favorite album.

Here’s a few
Blues From Laurel Canyon
Looking Back
The Blues Alone
One of his later albums that’s a favorite is Spinning Coin

I’ve never owned Crusade on vinyl. Finally ordered the Sundazed mono recently. It’s supposed to arrive on my B-day Jan. 5th

 

[pumpkinman]

What an influence John has had on the Blues, I mean look at the guitarist's he introduced to the world. This is such a hard question because his recordings go back 50 years, yeah 50 years people with so many musicians,with him calling the shots,with so many configurations and in the end his bands replicated what he herd in his brain. Astounding.
So I'm going to answer my question and it isn't an easy one but USA Union Is my choice.
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First the band is 2/3rds of Canned Heat(Taylor,Mandel) plus Don 'Sugarcane' Harris with no percussion. Mayall's percussion less period blows my mind.
I was in my teens back then and it taught me sometimes less is more. I mean I didn't even miss the drums because the songs were complete without them! Don 'Sugarcane' Harris sparkles on the recording with his violin work on songs like Crying are so moving.
Mayall is a legend who keeps exploring the boundaries of music.
So what's your favorite Mayall outing.

USA Union was the 1st Mayall album added to my collection

 

[bobsvinyl]

Blues Breakers won me over in high school. I recently picked up Hard Road and I really liked that.

 

[rmeade]

He's still alive, isn't he? Pushing 90 ... I wonder if he's still working?

I saw John Mayall a few years ago at a smallish jazz club in Oakland Ca., Yoshie's. He was good. Didn't look, sound or play like a guy in his mid 80's. He wanted to play new stuff; he didn't respond well to requests for his previous work. In retrospect, quite inspirational.