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In the Palace of the King | 
 enlarge | Artist: John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers
Label: Eagle Records
Category: Music
Buy New: $13.98
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 22636
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 20104
UPC: 826992010427
EAN: 0826992010427
ASIN: B000O590CU
Release Date: April 17, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | You Know That You Love Me | | • | Goin' Down | | • | Some Other Day, Some Other Time | | • | Palace Of The King | | • | I'd Rather Be Blind | | • | Time To Go | | • | Big Legged Woman | | • | Now I Got A Woman | | • | I Love You More Every Day | | • | Help Me Through The Day | | • | Cannonball Shuffle | | • | You've Got Me Licked | | • | King Of The Kings | | • | Living On The Highway |
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Amazon.com
The 56th album by the 73-year-old godfather of British blues is a tribute to one of his major influences, the late Texas-born guitarist Freddie King. It's also a nod to current Bluesbreakers picker Buddy Whittington, an underrated pyrotechnician who follows a long line of distinguished six-string Mayall sidemen that includes Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Coco Montoya, and Walter Trout. Whittington measures up, recreating the terse energy of King's biting, blunt phrasing on the legend's classic "Going Down" and the swinging "You Know That You Love Me." And he puts his own grinding, slashing brand on the riff 'n' rip guitar of "The Palace of the King," a biographical tune Don Nix, Leon Russell, and Duck Dunn wrote for King. Guest guitarist Robben Ford lends his own instrumental King homage, "Cannonball Shuffle," but it's Mayall's piano-led "King of the Kings" that's most touching. Singing in his arcing, high voice, slightly thinned by age, Mayall explains how King influenced him and his Bluesbreakers, showing Clapton, Green, and Taylor "all the licks to play," and concludes that he's "Got the blues for Mr. Freddie/Sorry that you had to go." --Ted Drozdowski
Album Description
John Mayall, the "Godfather of British Blues", returns with the Bluesbreakers for his latest studio album "In The Palace Of The King". This new album is John's tribute to one of his blues heroes, the late, great Freddie King. King was a blues guitar pioneer from the mid-50's through to his tragically early death in the mid-70's and he influenced everyone from Peter Green to DaveEdmunds to Stevie Ray Vaughan and probably most of all Eric Clapton, who produced and played on King's final album. "In The Palace Of The King" features John Mayall's take on his personal selection of Freddie King favorites and is a fabulous combination of two true blues legends.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 John Mayall May 4, 2008
What can I say this another great work from one of the great blues men. It is a must buy if you truely love the blues.
 Pitiful September 28, 2007
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
Don't misunderstand me... I own 46 John Mayall CD's and albums and I like his music very much. Many of his recordings are stepping stones in the evolution of the blues/rock/jazz fusion.
Unfortunately, this album is not the case. After listening (just once - can't take anymore) I honestly think that this is nothing but a pitiful effort of an aging artist to make more money towards the sunset of his career...Too bad JM did not choose to issue some re-mastered/re-mixed, etc., compilations of his fantastic old material...I traded "In The Palace of the King" for Gloria Estefan's 1990 "Exitos" CD (a $1.50 value)...!!!
 Looking backward August 29, 2007
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
I appreciate Patrick Skog's review and, especially, the list in his "comments," which is a really good one for what is basically a "notes" section.
As far as John Mayall's blues go, I have to admit that I don't like 'em. His taste in and knowledge of blues don't translate into his own performances, in my opinion, on this or any other of his albums.
I don't care for Mayall's singing (very thin), songwriting, cover versions, and, particularly, rhythm sections. Even when he has a great rhythm section, like John McVie and Mick Fleetwood, he constrains them, tightening them up and taking the air out of them.
Listen to the expanded version of 'A Hard Road,' for example, and compare the songs on which Mayall is the leader to the songs on which Peter Green is the leader, such as "The Super Natural," "The Stumble," "Out of Reach," "Curly," "Greeny," and "Alabama Blues." The difference is monumental. Suddenly, the music breathes and has a life of its own.
Mayall's strengths, I think, have been his choice in guitarists and his inspiring love and knowledge of the blues. I'm sure he gave Clapton, Green, Taylor, (Jon) Mark, and others great stuff to listen to. And it's mostly those guitarists that have left Mayall's historical mark.
For now I'll just focus on recordings by Peter Green (with Mayall, Fleetwood Mac, Eddie Boyd, Otis Spann, Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon, Buddy Guy, and solo). I prefer Green's versions of "Preachin' Blues" (Robert Johnson), "Alabama Blues" (J.B. Lenoir), "You Need Love" (Muddy Waters), "Worried Dream" (B.B. King), "The Stumble" (Freddy King), "Don't Know Which Way to Go" (Buddy Guy), and "Need Your Love So Bad" (Little Willie John) to the originals.
If that's not saying a lot, I don't know what is.
He's got songs of his own that, in my opinion, are as good: "First Train Home," "Drifting," "A Fool No More," "Rambling Pony," "Love That Burns," "Stop Messin' Round," "Leaving Town Blues," "World Keep On Turning," "Black Magic Woman," "Oh Well," and "Last Train to San Antone," for example. And there are more!
Such as "The Super Natural," from 'A Hard Road.' It's not coincidentally the title of the blockbuster by Santana, who made "Black Magic Woman" his own. "The Super Natural" is Green's calling card, his first definitive recording as a blues master. And it's a most remarkable composition, being basically one note--"pure and easy," as Pete Townshend once wrote.
Still, one has to start somewhere, and Peter Green got the best start possible when John Mayall gave him the lead guitar position in The Bluesbreakers.
 Stuck in a time warp... July 25, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
This CD is reminiscent of the John Mayall recordings from the 60's and 70's...in fact it sounds like the same recordings remixed. The best song on here is Big Legged Woman, and it is only OK with further listenings. The rest sounds like it is 40 years old, and not in a good way.
Freddie must be very proud. July 16, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Texas Cannonball has been gone for 30 years. With John Mayall's latest release, the double fisted Blues frieght train that was Freddie King is back on track. Bravo John.
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