John Mayall, a pioneering British blues singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist first won attention when he moved out of his family home in a small village near Manchester, and moved into a backyard tree-house, into which he later moved his first wife.  As a teen he learned to play piano, guitar and ukulele and taught himself how to play harmonica.  While in college he formed his first band, but his early work history includes window dresser, typographer, graphic artist and draftsman.  In ’63, he moved to London where he was able to find enough club work to turn professional and form his dream band, The Bluesbreakers, who became, without doubt, the most influential band in the British Blues Boom of the late ‘60’s.  Spanning a career of five decades and creating careers for hundreds of musicians, Mayall’s recording history includes fifty six official albums which have garnered great critical reviews and popular acclaim.  He is held in the highest regard for his talent and integrity, but he is best known for the many outstanding musicians he mentored and who developed their craft under his tutelage.  According to his first successful student, Eric Clapton, "John Mayall has actually run an incredibly great school for musicians." Some of these Bluesbreakers include Peter Green, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac), Harvey Mandel (Canned Heat), Aynsley Dunbar (Journey), Larry Taylor (Canned Heat), Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones) Walter Trout (Walter Trout and the Radicals)  and  Coco Montoya.  Mayall’s most recent release, “In The Palace of the King,” honors and pays tribute to the music of Mayall’s long-time hero of the blues, Freddie King, and is available from Eagle Records.  In 2005, Mayall was awarded an OBE in the Queens Honours list, the recognition by the Sovereign of England awarded to her common subjects, from all walks of life, in appreciation for service to humankind, as representatives of the United Kingdom.