"Rush" is a soundtrack album to the movie of the same name written and performed by Eric Clapton. The album features the acoustic rock ballad "Tears in Heaven", which won three Grammy awards for Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1993.
"Rush" is an excellent dark blues score written by Eric Clapton (with help on the three songs) and performed by an augmented version of his band. This soundtrack album produced one big hit for Clapton with "Tears in Heaven," but it's a wonderfully intense piece of work all the way through, with some terrific guitar work from Clapton himself. Buddy Guy turns up to add lead vocals and guitar on the 11-minute version of Willie Dixon's "Don't Know Which Way to Go," and that's more than all right too. There's a very good chance that the dark intensity of this music was as much informed by the tragedies in Clapton's life ("Tears in Heaven" is about his son) as the film itself. Whatever the cause, this album has far more impact than you might expect from the score to a movie there's a sense of the music here working something out in Clapton's heart, a sense given a lot of power thanks to the intense, heart-wrenching passion invoked by some of the turns taken here. At its best, Clapton's music can speak of the pain he feels and Clapton has rarely been better than he is here.
01. "New Recruit" (Eric Clapton) - 1:30
02. "Tracks and Lines" (Eric Clapton) - 3:00
03. "Realization" (Eric Clapton) - 2:41
04. "Kristen and Jim" (Eric Clapton) - 3:38
05. "Preludin Fugue" (Eric Clapton) - 3:19
06. "Cold Turkey" (Eric Clapton) - 2:21
07. "Will Gaines" (Eric Clapton) - 3:46
08. "Help Me Up" (Clapton, Will Jennings) - 5:50
09. "Don't Know Which Way to Go" (Buddy Guy on lead vocals) (Willie Dixon, Al Perkins) - 10:46
10. "Tears in Heaven" (Clapton, Jennings
Released: 14 January 1992
Label: Duck / Reprise
Genre: Original Score, Soundtrack, Rock
Length: 41:40
Producer: Russ Titelman
Engineers: Ed Cherney, Jeff DeMorris
Conductor: Randy Kerber
Personnel:
Eric Clapton - vocals, guitar, dobro
Buddy Guy - vocals, guitar
Jaydee Maness - pedal steel
Gayle Levant - celtic harp
Greg Phillinganes - piano, organ
Chuck Leavell - piano, organ
Randy Kerber - organ, keyboards, synthesizer
Robbie Kondor - synthesizer
Nathan East - bass
Tim Drummond - bass
Steve Ferrone - drums
Lenny Castro - percussion
David Frank - horn programming
Jimmy Bralower - drum programming
Bill Champlin, Vaneese Thomas, Jenni Muldaur, Lani Groves
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