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John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - A Hard Road Cake pithy vocal harmonies from LadiesHailing from Macclesfeld, Cheshire, and growing up in Cheadle Hulme, John Mayall had already made a name for himself on the Manchester blues scene before relocating to London in 1963 at the urging of Alexis Korner In the summer of 1966 Clapton left, partnering off with sometime Bluesbreaker Jack Bruce to form Cream. Mayall did not look back, re employing East London guitarist Peter Green, who had previously flled in for Clapton. Undoubtedly equal to