Ten Years Are Gone

John Mayall

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Ten Years Are Gone Review

by William Ruhlmann

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.

Track Listing - Disc 1

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time	Stream
1	Ten Years Are Gone John Mayall	John Mayall	04:49	Amazon
2	Driving Till the Break of Day John Mayall	John Mayall	05:07	Amazon
3	Drifting John Mayall	John Mayall	04:40	Amazon
4	Better Pass You By John Mayall	John Mayall	05:16	Amazon
5	California Campground John Mayall	John Mayall	03:16	Amazon
6	Undecided	John Mayall	02:55	Amazon
7	Good Looking Stranger John Mayall	John Mayall	04:24	Amazon
8	I Still Care John Mayall	John Mayall	04:22	Amazon
9	Don't Hang Me Up John Mayall	John Mayall	04:10	Amazon

Track Listing - Disc 2

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time	Stream
1	Introduction John Mayall	John Mayall	01:56	Amazon
2	Sitting Here Thinking John Mayall	John Mayall	07:54	Amazon
3	Harmonica Free Form John Mayall	John Mayall	11:35	Amazon
4	Burning Sun John Mayall	John Mayall	05:13	Amazon
5	Dark of the Night John Mayall	John Mayall	17:39	Amazon