Mayall returned to the studio in 1973 for this double album. The ten years Mayall had in mind, of course, were the previous ten, which had seen him start as a local musician in Manchester, England, and emerge a decade, almost two dozen albums, and nearly as many lineups later with an evolved jazz-blues style and an international following. The album allows the ensemble considerable room to solo on Mayall's typically simple, blues-based song structures, and the approach is perhaps excessively casual. The second LP is a live date recorded at the Academy of Music in New York, and here things stretch out even more: "Harmonica Free Form" clocks in at 12 minutes and "Dark of the Night" runs 17:41.
John Mayall
Ten Years Are Gone
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AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann
Track Listing - Disc 1
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| 1 | John Mayall | 04:49 | Amazon | ||||
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| 3 | John Mayall | 04:40 | Amazon | ||||
| 4 | John Mayall | 05:16 | Amazon | ||||
| 5 | John Mayall | 03:16 | Amazon | ||||
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| 7 | John Mayall | 04:24 | Amazon | ||||
| 8 | John Mayall | 04:22 | Amazon | ||||
| 9 | John Mayall | 04:10 | Amazon |
Track Listing - Disc 2
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| 1 | John Mayall | 01:56 | Amazon | ||||
| 2 | John Mayall | 07:54 | Amazon | ||||
| 3 | John Mayall | 11:35 | Amazon | ||||
| 4 | John Mayall | 05:13 | Amazon | ||||
| 5 | John Mayall | 17:39 | Amazon |