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  • Summary: The latest full-length release from British blues artist John Mayall features guest appearances from The Heartbreakers' Mike Campbell, Marcus King, Buddy Miller, Scarlet Rivera, Jake Shimabukuro, and Melvin Taylor.
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  1. Classic Rock Magazine
    Jan 26, 2022
    80
    Mayall endures, and keeps exploring, with his best originals - Got To Find A Better Way and Deep Blue Sea - bent happily out of shape by screeching violin. [Feb 2022, p.79]
  2. Jan 26, 2022
    80
    The Sun Is Shining Down sounds hungry and vital. Mayall delivers these rough-and-ready blues like a champ.
  3. Uncut
    Jan 26, 2022
    70
    Mayall enthusiastically opens the door to funk and soul elements. [Feb 2022, p.32]
  4. 70
    There aren’t many musicians of Mayall’s advanced years still recording new music and fewer still sounding this energetic and dynamic. It’s not his finest work, but fans won’t come away disappointed either.