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John Mayall — Sensitive Kind
Album: A Sense of Place
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Released: 1990
Length: 5:11
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Don't take her for granted
She had a hard time
Don't misunderstand her
Or play with her mind
Treat her so gently
It will pay you in time
You gotta know
She's a sensitive kind

Tell her you love her
Each and every night
You will discover
She will treat you right
If you believe
I know you will find
There ain't nothing like
A sensitive kind

She gets so lonely
Waiting for you
You are the only
Thing to help her through
Don't take her for granted
She had a hard time
You gotta knowshe's a sensitive kind
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The times the bear was rolling in the shade, were better, rumours were telling he'd bought Laural Canyon, but I don't know if it's true -
Posted 2 months ago by Pitjes    [ Reply ]
RIP John, thanks for the memories.  
Posted 3 months ago by Pedro1874    [ Reply ]
RIP, John.  Every time I hear you playing I miss you.  Thanks for the great body of work.
Posted 4 months ago by RParadise    [ Reply ]
 obankenobi wrote:

I get this feeling this would sound incredible on my HiFi in the dark at about 98 dB's


Let us know.  I'd think it might simmer better in the dark at a low volume, with +5 equalizer settings for high treble and low bass.
Posted 1 year ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
A different take on Treat her right by Roy Head & the Traits
Posted 2 years ago by 1wolfy    [ Reply ]
that piano... 
Posted 2 years ago by xrdstv    [ Reply ]
 amoreena wrote:

Nope.  JJ Cale wrote this incredible love song.


Santana does a version of this on their Zebop album. Mayall's version features Coco Montoya on lead. 
Posted 2 years ago by tulfan    [ Reply ]
Great version from a fabulous album.
Posted 2 years ago by McBuggins    [ Reply ]
Got a black magic woman!!
Posted 2 years ago by StratoHari    [ Reply ]
A word to you guys out there: listen or not; the choice is yours. I lost the woman of my dreams by not following the advice given by J.J. Cale and John Mayall. Read these lyrics and commit them to heart. The melody and tempo of John's version are sweet and sensual, and musically depict the feeling of treating a sensitive kind with the utmost sweetness. 
Posted 2 years ago by rheckel    [ Reply ]
Thanks for all you’ve done to keep the blues alive from the 60’s through today!
Posted 2 years ago by bohica53    [ Reply ]
From johnmayall.com

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM JOHN MAYALL

I have decided, due to the risks of the pandemic and my advancing age, that it is time for me to hang up my road shoes. As a result I will be radically reducing my touring schedule and will be limiting my performances to local shows near my home in California, and the occasional concert further afield. My epic road dog days however have come to an end. I want to thank my audience for all the wonderful decades of shows, your infectious enthusiasm for my music and for your support throughout my many musical incarnations. It has been a privilege to have spent my life doing what I love and having you along for the ride with me through all of it. I may not be travelling to your location, but I do want to continue to share my love of the Blues with you. I have a new musical offering coming your way in the form of my album “The Sun is Shining Down,” which will be released by Forty Below Records on January 21st, featuring my long-time rhythm section of Greg Rzab and Jay Davenport as well as some exciting special guests. I’m proud of what we came up with and excited to share it with you. I look forward to seeing those of you who can attend my local shows, and I will miss all of you who cannot, but as always, keep loving the Blues! —John Mayall



Posted 2 years ago by chinaski    [ Reply ]
7 --==>> 8

This track is growing on me.   
Posted 2 years ago by SpencerAR    [ Reply ]
i love JM but this one's a dirge. Sorry John.
Posted 2 years ago by Wavemechanic    [ Reply ]
Like most of John Mayall's stuff, a 10+.
Posted 3 years ago by tkosh    [ Reply ]
 amoreena wrote:

Nope.  JJ Cale wrote this incredible love song.

The pride of Tulsa, Oklahoma
Posted 3 years ago by Ok_Sobriquet    [ Reply ]
 redart wrote:

And a pretty good cover it is too, much like the rest of the album, but then I might be a bit biased....memories of first serious girlfriend, listening to Santana in her room, and, well, ....  
If this was the smoochie track, what was the boingdy boingdy one...? 

Posted 3 years ago by kbs    [ Reply ]
 mmartinwhite1938 wrote:

Doesn't Tom Petty do this too? I thought he wrote it...


Nope.  JJ Cale wrote this incredible love song.
Posted 3 years ago by amoreena    [ Reply ]
This is just. Great !!!!!!
Posted 3 years ago by PeterMcClelland    [ Reply ]
"Gotta keep the devil way down in the hole."
Posted 3 years ago by zenhead    [ Reply ]
I get this feeling this would sound incredible on my HiFi in the dark at about 98 dB's
Posted 4 years ago by obankenobi    [ Reply ]
 mmartinwhite1938 wrote:
Doesn't Tom Petty do this too? I thought he wrote it...
 
J.J Cale original... from '5' album 1979, but there are live recordings from the mid '70s.
Posted 4 years ago by kbs    [ Reply ]
Doesn't Tom Petty do this too? I thought he wrote it...
Posted 4 years ago by mmartinwhite1938    [ Reply ]
 black321 wrote:
John's got a new album out, and is on tour!
 

At 86?  And I'd still buy a ticket. 
Posted 4 years ago by jwallstrom846    [ Reply ]
 QuestionMark wrote:
Can somebody tell me the guitar player on this super tune?
 

Sonny Landreth and Coco Montoya. 
Posted 5 years ago by fraserji    [ Reply ]
 kingart wrote:
Santana covered this on the album Zebop. 
 
And a pretty good cover it is too, much like the rest of the album, but then I might be a bit biased....memories of first serious girlfriend, listening to Santana in her room, and, well, ....  
Posted 5 years ago by redart    [ Reply ]
JJ Cale's version is the definitive version of this for me. Nice that Bill followed this with Crazy Mama by JJ.
Posted 5 years ago by mhamann123    [ Reply ]
very nice .....10
Posted 5 years ago by bakshi    [ Reply ]
I have heard this k8nd of song from many different artist.  I like this version.
Posted 5 years ago by Boxie    [ Reply ]
I've been a John Mayall fan since the 70s. My dad had a couple of his albums which I loved.  The BluesBreakers   were  my intro in to BLUES!  Saw John live a couple years ago in  Grass Valley CA. Great show he still has it! 
Posted 5 years ago by jeffspar    [ Reply ]
John's got a new album out, and is on tour!
Posted 5 years ago by black321    [ Reply ]
I have come late to John Mayall. This track always reminds me of Melissa Maclelland's 'Passenger 24', enough so that I had to confirm hers wasn't a cover of some other Mayall (it's not).
Posted 5 years ago by memoryboxer    [ Reply ]
Love John Mayall music, but prefer JJ Cale's original of this tune
Posted 6 years ago by Canadese    [ Reply ]
"Summertime and the living is easy..."
Posted 6 years ago by zenhead    [ Reply ]
Can somebody tell me the guitar player on this super tune?
Posted 6 years ago by QuestionMark    [ Reply ]
Take a little time and listen to the original song by JJ Cale 

mmartinwhite1938 wrote:
Had to buy this! Amazing lyrics and sound... aren't we all down deep "the sensitive kind"?

 

Posted 6 years ago by Carlo9151    [ Reply ]
Had to buy this! Amazing lyrics and sound... aren't we all down deep "the sensitive kind"?
Posted 6 years ago by mmartinwhite1938    [ Reply ]
32 degrees and raining This song worked just as well.
Posted 7 years ago by MikeConway    [ Reply ]
wow...I thought this was Pop Staples, singing...without his daughters.  
Posted 7 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
Gorgeous day out there, bright sunlight and glistening dew on the leaves with sharp chirping birds all around, Mayall's Sensitive Kind makes it all the more sweeter    later this afternoon I'll join my little brother as he gets married for the first time (at 56 : )
Posted 7 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
WOW... Never knew John Mayall did this piece.  FANTASTIC!!!
Posted 8 years ago by RCinSoCal    [ Reply ]
damn nice
Posted 8 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Santana covered this on the album Zebop. 
Posted 9 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
A good story you have for your grandchildren there!
DD gypsyman wrote:
Caught a show at the Sunset In Sierra Madre back in 1986 of Maggie Mayall And The Cadillacs, an all female blues band. I was standing at the back bar, watching the show, drinking and talking to this tall, thin dude, with long gray hair in a ponytail. We discussed the band, and how good they really were. We talked about some other stuff. He mentioned that it was his wife's band. I was like, no kidding?

When we got around to introducing ourselves, he said "John Mayall. Pleased to meetcha". I just swallowed, took a sip of my drink and smiled...(yes, that John Mayall) 

 


Posted 9 years ago by hugogdt    [ Reply ]
This is the cat that got this white dude into the blues.....back in the late 60's when it wasn't cool at all. I'm still playing harmonica thanks to John.
Posted 9 years ago by boober    [ Reply ]
awesome man
Posted 10 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Doing the slow groove coocie in my office chair...
Posted 10 years ago by PA1749    [ Reply ]
JM's the man...my grandkids don't say: "Who?"
Posted 10 years ago by marty88210    [ Reply ]
Caught a show at the Sunset In Sierra Madre back in 1986 of Maggie Mayall And The Cadillacs, an all female blues band. I was standing at the back bar, watching the show, drinking and talking to this tall, thin dude, with long gray hair in a ponytail. We discussed the band, and how good they really were. We talked about some other stuff. He mentioned that it was his wife's band. I was like, no kidding?

When we got around to introducing ourselves, he said "John Mayall. Pleased to meetcha". I just swallowed, took a sip of my drink and smiled...(yes, that John Mayall) 
Posted 11 years ago by DD gypsyman    [ Reply ]
Asked in an interview on his website if it bothered him that while people might have loved his songs, they may not have known his name, he said: "No, it doesn't bother me. What's really nice is when you get a check in the mail."

RIP JJ.
Posted 11 years ago by catnip    [ Reply ]
Quality music!  This is new (to me) and much appreciated, a sweet lesson 
Posted 11 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Very nice!
Posted 11 years ago by helgigermany    [ Reply ]
John, you've just had too much green. Or Valium. Lou Rawls anyone? Saw JM in 1971-ish in Melbourne (no, not Florida) with Keef Hartley on drums.  Brilliant Blues!!!!
Posted 11 years ago by maxmox    [ Reply ]
Decent version but check out JJ Cale's live version on the cd JJ Cale Live
Posted 11 years ago by mfcrowe    [ Reply ]
very nice!
Posted 11 years ago by helgigermany    [ Reply ]
 boober wrote:
I've got an album "Live from Klooks Kleek" or something like that....from 1962
John Mayall with Mick Fleetwood and John MacVie.
John's been doing some fine music for a VERY long time.
 

Yep, the real deal...my fondest memories "Turning Point" 1970 or thereabouts
Posted 12 years ago by rascal    [ Reply ]
Thought it Ry Cooder for a minute, fooled me again.
Posted 12 years ago by oldman    [ Reply ]
 willmcnaught wrote:
Had to click and see who this was, very surpriz{#Devil_pimp}ed to see John Mayalls name and that this was 11 yrs old! Very tasty stuff! One more reason I listen to RP
 
Are you "living (10 years) in the past"? lol {#Roflol}
Posted 12 years ago by Pedro1874    [ Reply ]
This guy's best work was when he had McVie on bass and the likes of Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor playing guitar for him.  A good spotter of talent, but otherwise...  For many of you, that was before you were born.  Subsequently, not so much.
Posted 12 years ago by joelbb    [ Reply ]
Kinda JJ Cale sounding, not at all the Bluesbreakers style
Posted 12 years ago by ozzie1313    [ Reply ]
my ex loves him.
i have to stay away. 
Posted 12 years ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
The sensitive kind, and the living is easy. Fish and jumping' and the cotton is high.
Posted 12 years ago by MJMJ    [ Reply ]
 boober wrote:
I've got an album "Live from Klooks Kleek" or something like that....from 1962
John Mayall with Mick Fleetwood and John MacVie.
John's been doing some fine music for a VERY long time.
 

And I had one of the first incarnation of the Bluesbreakers too - JM had a revolving door of people paying their dues before becoming much better known
Posted 12 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
Like the beat...and the mix!
Posted 12 years ago by AlohaRitch    [ Reply ]
I like this version-he is a master{#Dancingbanana}
Posted 12 years ago by dew34    [ Reply ]
 boober wrote:
I've got an album "Live from Klooks Kleek" or something like that....from 1962
John Mayall with Mick Fleetwood and John MacVie.
John's been doing some fine music for a VERY long time.
 


Posted 12 years ago by prophetzarquon    [ Reply ]
 crisssi wrote:

I prefer JJ Cale's version. Although - this one is cool {#Cowboy}
 
I tell you what.....this is at least a 6
Posted 12 years ago by cohifi    [ Reply ]
 justsomeone wrote:
I prefer Santana's version...
 
I prefer JJ Cale's version. Although - this one is cool {#Cowboy}
Posted 12 years ago by crisssi    [ Reply ]
I prefer Santana's version...
Posted 13 years ago by justsomeone    [ Reply ]
I've got an album "Live from Klooks Kleek" or something like that....from 1962
John Mayall with Mick Fleetwood and John MacVie.
John's been doing some fine music for a VERY long time.
Posted 13 years ago by boober    [ Reply ]
Like it but find myself singing "the thrill is gone" at the same time.
Posted 13 years ago by martinc    [ Reply ]
 willmcnaught wrote:
Had to click and see who this was, very surpriz{#Devil_pimp}ed to see John Mayalls name and that this was 11 yrs old! Very tasty stuff! One more reason I listen to RP
 
Actually, it's 21 years old, yes?

Posted 13 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
Had to click and see who this was, very surpriz{#Devil_pimp}ed to see John Mayalls name and that this was 11 yrs old! Very tasty stuff! One more reason I listen to RP
Posted 13 years ago by willmcnaught    [ Reply ]