Looking Back is the seventh album released by John Mayall in August 1969.The album features songs by both John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and John Mayall solo work. It contains songs written between 1964 and 1968 with almost all the most well-known musicians who played with the Bluesbreakers during this period.
 
This album is a unique article in that it clearly shon John Mayall's musical progression over a period of five years; it is also a collection of past single releases and in just 11 selections the changing patterns of the band musicians are brightly outlined and highlight the work of Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton, Roger Dean, Aynsley Dunbar, Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green, Keef Hartley, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Jonh McVie, Mick Taylor, some of whom incidentally have not been  featured on album before.

The photografic montage on the inner liner serves to futher illustrate this diary of many bands, aptly christened "Lookking Back". - Mike Vernon, May 1969
 
A1. MR. JAMES
John McVie - (bass)
Martin Hart - (drums)
Bernie Watson - (guitar)
John Mayall - (piano, vocals)

A2. BLUES CITY SHAKE DOWN
John McVie - (bass)
Hughie Flint - (drums)
Roger Dean - (guitar)
John Mayall - (harmonica)

A3. THEY CALL IT STORMY MONDAY
Jack Bruce - (bass)
Hughie Flint - (drums)
Eric Clapton - (guitar)
John Mayall - (organ, vocals)

A4. SOME MANY ROADS
John McVie - (bass)
Aynsley Dunbar - (drums)
Peter Green - (guitar)
John Mayall - (piano, vocals)

A5. LOOKING BACK
John McVie - (bass)
Aynsley Dunbar - (drums)
John Mayall, Peter Green - (guitar)
John Mayall - (vocals)

A6. SITTING IN THE RAIN
John McVie - (bass)
Aynsley Dunbar - (drums)
John Mayall, Peter Green (guitar)
John Mayall - (vocals)


B1. IT HURTS ME TOO
John McVie - (bass, drums)
Peter Green - (guitar)
John Mayall - (organ, vocals)

B2. DOUBLE TROUBLE
John McVie - (bass, drums)
Peter Green - (guitar)
John Mayall - (organ, vocals)

B3. SUSPICIONS  (Part 2)
Paul Williams - (bass)
Keef Hartley - (drums)
John Mayall, Mick Taylor - (guitar)
SChris Mercer, Dick Heckstall-Smith - (tenor sax)
John Mayall- (vocals)

B4. JENNY
Peter Green - (guitar)
John Mayall - (guitar, piano, vocals)

B5. PICTURE ON THE WALL
Keef Hartley - (drums)
John Mayall - (guitar, vocals)
Peter Green - (steel guitar)