The great producer Mike Vernon died om March 2nd at the age of 81, a man who couldn’t singlehandedly define the sound of British blues in the late ’60s and early ’70s only because he needed two hands to work the desk. Vernon’s label, Blue Horizon, became synonymous with that vernacular strand of the music genre he championed, and if not for Mike such ensembles as FLEETWOOD MAC. SAVOY BROWN and TEN YEARS AFTER might not have happened. It was him who directed the sound of the seminal “Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton” album – but there was so much more to the veteran.
