The album reached #8 on the UK album charts which is Mayall's third biggest chart next to Bare Wires and Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton which reached #3 and #6, respectively.[9]
The cover art and the original LP sleeve design are by Mayall. In 2003 and 2006 two different expanded versions of the album were released.
Reception
Reaction to the album was mostly positive, and many praised Green's guitar playing. Team Rock rated the album at 14, on their "Top 30 British Blues Rock Albums of All Time".[10] The two re-issues of the album, in 2003 (double CD) and 2006 (single CD), have compiled all of the Peter Green studio contributions he made to John Mayall's Bluesbreakers over 1966–1971. The bonus tracks missing from the 2006 remaster (except "Evil Woman Blues") appeared on the remastered versions of the next Bluesbreakers studio albums, "Crusade" and "Bare Wires".
2006 UK expanded version (1CD/28 tracks, 4 unreleased)
1–14 Original album tracks (as above)
"Looking Back" (Watson) – 2:37
"So Many Roads" (Paul) – 4:47
"Mama, Talk to Your Daughter" (Atkins, Lenoir) – 2:39
"Alabama Blues" (Lenoir) – 2:31
"All My Life" – 4:25
"Ridin' on the L & N" (Burley, Hampton) – 2:32
"Eagle Eye" – 2:52
"Little By Little" – 2:47
"Sitting in the Rain" – 2:59
"Out of Reach" (Green) – 4:44
"No More Tears" – 2:19
"Ridin' on the L & N" (Burley, Hampton) – 2:19
"Sitting in the Rain" – 2:53
"Leaping Christine" – 1:55
The previously unreleased tracks 15–16, 23 from Looking Back; 17–18, 24 from Thru the Years, Decca SKL 5086; 19–22 are from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Paul Butterfield EP, Decca DFE 8673; 25–28 are from BBC Light Programme Saturday Club session recorded 23 January 1967