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Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton Audio CD

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Eric Clapton Band: Eric Clapton
Title: Eric Clapton
Rating:
Release Date: 1996-08-20
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Slunky 2: Bad Boy 3: Lonesome and a Long Way from Home 4: After Midnight 5: Easy Now 6: Blues Power 7: Bottle of Red Wine 8: Lovin' You Lovin' Me 9: Told You for the Last Time 10: Don't Know Why 11: Let It Rain

sweet as pie
Every song is written, sung and played with just the right touch. Clapton's eponymous solo debut encapsulates everything that makes him not just a great picker, but a great musician. He has taken the torrential blues of his early bands, mixed in the psychedelic mayhem of Cream, and served it on a bed of tasty country fried pop. Clapton catching his musical breath just before the jump into the stratosphere with brother Duane and the boys. .


EC's Solo Debut Is Great
Such songs as "Blues Power" and "Let It Rain" are undeniable, although "After Midnight" hasn't aged as well, probably because it's been overplayed. Eric Clapton's self-titled solo debut is great, with a loose, bluesy feel reminiscent of Delaney & Bonnie and the first Allman Brothers Band album. This is a CD that any Clapton fan must own.


"Easy Now" pick this up but the remastered version W/bonus tracks


July of 1970 legions of E. As the author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent" and a former radio disc-jockey, I am often asked to write and or discuss various music supplies and recordings from the 60's and 70's. C. fans were assembled in the local record shop to procure Clapton's first solo recording. As the rumors became reality that it wouldn't be Cream or Blind Faith revisited, there were millions of ears that needed to encompass the material.

One look at the writing credits on the original disc show E. C. was responsible for at least part if not all of 10 of the 11 tracks. The exception being J. J. Cale's "After Midnight. " If the critics had a red pen they were sorely disappointed that it wouldn't be leaving their hands. "Slunky" throws the kitchen sink at you. A bit of everything with horns included. Clapton is relaxed but in focus. "Lonesome And A Long Way From Home" with friends Bonnie Bramlett and Delaney Bramlett (E. C. had toured with them) either sublimely or on the surface (Take your pick) talks about being alone for the first time. Gone are the Yardbirds, Bluesbreakers, Cream, and Blind Faith! "After Midnight" would become an Album Rock staple for decades. Clapton vocals sound superlative and the arrangement properly showcases the musicians without overkill. The first time you absorb the wonder of "Easy Now" it dawns on you that Clapton has never gotten enough accolades for his singing. "Blues Power" lets the six string shine and with perfect construction has seen many Clapton fans proudly place this in their Top 10 solo E. C. tunes. The longest song on the record clocking in at 5:02 also finishes the festivities. "Let It Rain" is so well crafted that any artist on any record could be proud to see inclusion.

If one of the truly great solo recordings needed one more attribute (It doesn't but we welcome gifts) the remaster includes both the originally released Tom Dowd mix and the Bramlett mix with some bonus tracks. One in particular will blow you away. "She Rides" is "Let It Rain" with different words and wouldn't tarnish the original LP if it showed up in this form!

Enjoy the music and be well,
Craig Fenton
Author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent"
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getting into studio Clapton
"After Midnight" which has become the ultimate late night party song, and "Let It Rain" with its dazzling display of guitar work (I hear Clapton extended the guitar jam in concert- great track!). Eric Clapton's solo debut album is really good classic rock. Other tunes that people might not recognize are equally as satisfying, such as the jazzy/funky "Slunky" and other tracks that make good use of combining female and male vocals such as in "I Don't Know Why" and "Lonesome And A Long Way From Home". A solid debut. Of course, live Clapton is the ultimate choice, but his debut studio album is sure to leave you wanting more.


Clapton's first
Crisp, professional, laid back blues-rock that occasionally courts brilliance. This is a pretty okay album, actually. Let It Rain is a good example of that. Only a guitarist of Clapton's calibur could've played that kind of solo. Of course there's also his hit cover of J. J. Cale's After Midnight, a fun Mardi Gras-R&B hybrid, and the live favorite Blues Power. Those three are the album's strongest points by far, but there are some other goodies too: the horn-powered, funky Slunky; blues-pop on Bad Boy, and folk-blues on Lonesome and a Long Way from Home (a clear ancestor of 461 Ocean Blvd. 's Give Me Strength). And Clapton had a hand in most of the songwriting too, which is cool by me. A couple downsides, though. The lyrics are weak - Clapton never was much of a poet in the first place - and some of it is simply inconsequential pop, such as Loving Me Loving You, Easy Now, Don't Know Why and Told You for the Last Time. This laid the groundwork for Clapton's strongest studio album (461 Ocean Blvd), has its moments, and is nicely mellow (unlike some of his other solo stuff, which is annoyingly mellow). But it's not a work of genius. Then again, '70s Clapton wasn't exactly an innovator - damn good guitarist, though.


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