- blues, blues rock, rock
- 22 min
- 13 tracks
- Decca Records
Bare Wires is a studio album by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, featuring Mick Taylor on guitar, Chris Mercer and Dick Heckstall-Smith on saxophones, Jon Hiseman on drums, Henry Lowther on cornet and violin, and Tony Reeves on bass. It was released in 1968 on Decca Records. The album was the last John Mayall studio album to feature the name "Bluesbreakers". The album was also Mayall's first successful U.S. album, reaching #59 on the Billboard 200.
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Grave, spare, classical in form and earnest.
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
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Tracks
- A1Bare Wires
- A2Where Did I Belong
- A3I Started Walking
- A4Open a New Door
- A5Fire
- A6I Know Now
- A7Look in the Mirror
- B1I’m a Stranger5:11
- B2No Reply3:06
- B3Hartley Quits2:58
- B4Killing Time4:42
- B5She’s Too Young2:28
- B6Sandy3:49
13 tracks, 22 minutes.
About the album
- Label
- Decca Records
- Released
- 1968
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- GB
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