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John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers - A Hard Road (1967) [Sundazed 180g LP; Mono] 24-bit/96kHz & CD-format

Posted By : aksman | Date : 10 Sep 2011 11:23:55 | Comments : 19 |
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John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers - A Hard Road
Vinyl rip in 24-bit/192kHz (presented in 24/96 & 16/44.1) | FLAC | m3u, cue & Tech Log
Artwork | DR Analysis | 433 / 167 mb incl. recovery | FSonic, FF & WU | Blues | 1967
Mastered from the original UK mono master tapes by Bob Irwin
Sundazed 180g Mono LP / Cat.#: Sundazed LP 5372

Peter Green leaves a strong stamp on his only album with the Bluesbreakers, singing a few tracks and writing a couple, including the devastating instrumental "Supernatural."
- Richie Unterberger/AMG (4/5 Stars)


A Hard Road is a 1967 electric blues album recorded by John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers featuring Peter Green on lead guitar, John McVie on bass, Aynsley Dunbar on drums and John Almond. Tracks 5, 7 and 13 feature the horn section of Alan Skidmore and Ray Warleigh. Peter Green sings lead vocals on "You Don't Love Me" and "The Same Way." The notable instrumental track "The Supernatural", a guitar improvisation in the key of D minor, has much in common with Peter Green's later hit composition "Black Magic Woman".

The album reached #8 on the U.K. Album Charts which is Mayall's third biggest chart next to "Bare Wires" and "Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton" which reached #3 and #6, respectively.[3]

The cover art and the original LP sleeve design are by J. Mayall.



Track listing

All songs by John Mayall except as noted.
    Side one

    "A Hard Road" – 3:12
    "It's Over" – 2:51
    "You Don't Love Me" (Willie Cobbs) – 2:50
    "The Stumble" (Freddie King, Sonny Thompson) – 2:54
    "Another Kinda Love" – 3:06
    "Hit The Highway" – 2:17
    "Leaping Christine" – 2:25

    Side two

    "Dust My Blues" (Elmore James, Joe Josea) – 2:50
    "There's Always Work" – 1:38
    "The Same Way" (Peter Green) – 2:11
    "The Supernatural" (Green) – 2:57
    "Top Of The Hill" – 2:40
    "Someday After A While (You'll Be Sorry)" (King, Thompson) – 3:02
    "Living Alone" – 2:23

Personnel
    John Mayall – vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano, organ
    Peter Green – guitar, vocals
    John McVie – bass
    Hughie Flint, Aynsley Dunbar – drums
    John Almond, Alan Skidmore – Saxophones
    Ray Warleigh – Wind instruments

    Production

    Produced by Mike Vernon
    Recording Engineer : Gus Dudgeon

Dynamic Range

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Analyzed: John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers / A Hard Road [Sundazed 180g LP]
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR10 -2.63 dB -14.36 dB 3:09 01-A Hard Road
DR9 -2.85 dB -13.32 dB 2:50 02-It's Over
DR8 -2.60 dB -12.51 dB 2:49 03-You Don't Love Me
DR9 -2.57 dB -12.40 dB 2:54 04-The Stumble
DR9 -2.57 dB -13.01 dB 3:04 05-Another Kinda Love
DR10 -2.69 dB -13.88 dB 2:17 06-Hit The Highway
DR8 -2.26 dB -12.19 dB 2:23 07-Leaping Christine
DR9 -2.69 dB -13.06 dB 2:53 08-Dust My Blues
DR10 -3.83 dB -17.41 dB 1:33 09-There's Always Work
DR8 -2.29 dB -12.47 dB 2:10 10-The Same Way
DR9 -2.48 dB -13.30 dB 2:56 11-The Supernatural
DR8 -2.93 dB -12.09 dB 2:41 12-Top Of The Hill
DR9 -2.72 dB -13.05 dB 3:01 13-Someday After A While (You'll Be Sorry)
DR9 -2.44 dB -12.94 dB 2:23 14-Living Alone
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Number of tracks: 14
Official DR value: DR9

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 593 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Technical Log

RCM Hannl 'limited' with "Rotating Brush"
Music Hall MMF 9.1 Turntable
Tonearm: Pro-Ject 9cc evo with Pure Silver Wires
Cartridge: Nagaoka MP-500
Brocksieper Phonomax (Tube Phono PreAmp)
E-MU 0404 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Interconnections : Silent Wire NF5
WaveLab 6 recording software
iZotope RX Advanced 2.00 for resampling and dithering

Vacuum cleaning > TT > Brocksieper Phonomax > E-MU 0404 > WaveLab 6 (24/192) > manual click removal >
analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > converted to 24/96 (16/44.1) with iZotope RX Advanced 2.00
> split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)

No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.


Ripping Note

In the past Sundazed had a lot of trouble with pressing quality. It seems to me that this issue is history now... The last Sundazed' records I purchased (Canned Heat, Joihn Mayall) were excellent pressings. I just give them a standard washing on my Hannl RCM and had to remove a few minor clicks manually.


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Posted By: jaisoncruz Date: 10 Sep 2011 12:14:40
Thanks from Brazil Aksman!!!
Posted By: Miltiades Date: 10 Sep 2011 12:21:43
A very nice one too!
Thank You :-)
Posted By: eventide Date: 10 Sep 2011 12:24:10
Sounds interesting, thanks.
Posted By: sutaram Date: 10 Sep 2011 12:37:32
Thanks very much !!!!!
Posted By: Globalbee3 Date: 10 Sep 2011 12:42:50
Thank you for the John Mayall upload. Great assembly of musicians.
Posted By: terra6 Date: 10 Sep 2011 13:47:31
Gruss und Dank aus Eierland und ein sonniges Wochenende. Cheers
Posted By: jazzever Date: 10 Sep 2011 14:09:15
This is great post aksman,thank you:)
Posted By: tubert Date: 10 Sep 2011 14:55:16
Thanks aksman.
Posted By: ManWhoCan Date: 10 Sep 2011 15:02:46
This is an essential piece of Blues history. Thanks for a new rip version Askman.
Posted By: Flying Ed Date: 10 Sep 2011 17:23:18
Turn my Peter Green.
Nice one Aksman.
F.E.
Posted By: rokosh Date: 10 Sep 2011 19:21:23
Wow, great post; this section of Avax is really humming right now!
Posted By: stuckinthe70s Date: 10 Sep 2011 19:54:54
thanks - steve.
Posted By: garybx Date: 10 Sep 2011 22:13:59
Thanks for 'da blues.
Posted By: Electrotung Date: 11 Sep 2011 04:52:45
Thanks alot,aksman. I'm going to pass on this,as I really love Prof. Stoned UK Decca Mono rip. I wish he would put out something more frequently,but alas he probably has his reasons. He's what got me started on vinyl rips,along with you and maybe dgstrat,then pbthal came on the scene in late '08. You've been always nothing but a gentleman and I appreciate your offerings here.

(While Iron Butterfly's epic masterpiece is full of distortion and not entirely audiophile grade recording to begin with,you did your best with it,and where else would I find a vinyl rip of this? Great taste for music.)
Posted By: xcmbcx Date: 12 Sep 2011 18:40:40
NICE!! Thank you aksman!!
Posted By: cheezle Date: 15 Sep 2011 02:46:10
Thank you!!
Posted By: lplover Date: 27 Sep 2011 19:31:35
Many thanks, for another great rip of a great blues record. Again in wonderful mono, which is new & strange to my ears as i am used to my good old SLK 16490 royal stereo sound.
lplover
Posted By: nedjo Date: 29 Sep 2011 14:43:28
Thanks Aksman,
Posted By: jbl_bill Date: 10 Dec 2011 08:01:05
A famous album with a great Guitar Mr Peter Green, The super natural just before he create Albatros....
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