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Thursday, 27 November 2025

Eric Clapton - Journeyman (Deluxe Edition) (2025)

Eric Clapton viert zijn klassieke album Journeyman met een Deluxe Edition vol geremasterde tracks en vier niet eerder uitgebrachte nummers.
Journeyman: Deluxe Edition verschijnt op 21 november 2025 via Bushbranch/Surfdog Records en bevat naast een geremasterde versie van het originele album maar liefst vier nooit eerder uitgebrachte bonus tracks, rechtstreeks afkomstig uit de oorspronkelijke studio-opnames van 1989. 
Voor muziekliefhebbers is dit een unieke kans om Clapton opnieuw te beleven op een belangrijk keerpunt in zijn carrière.
Het originele Journeyman (1989) staat bekend als een van Claptons sterkste soloalbums, met klassiekers als “Pretending”, “Bad Love” en “Running on Faith”. 
De plaat werd destijds geroemd om de balans tussen blues, pop en rock en bevatte gastbijdragen van grootheden als George Harrison, Phil Collins, Chaka Khan, Daryl Hall en Robert Cray.
De Deluxe Edition belicht niet alleen de originele kracht van het album, maar biedt ook een frisse blik op Claptons ontwikkeling als artiest die zichzelf steeds opnieuw uitvindt, ondanks persoonlijke en professionele obstakels.


Tracklist

1.  Pretending - 4:43
2.  Anything for Your Love - 4:11
3.  Bad Love - 5:10
4.  Running on Faith - 5:36
5.  Hard Times - 3:15
6.  Hound Dog - 2:28
7.  No Alibis - 5:36
8.  Run So Far - 4:08
9.  Old Love - 6:24
10.  Breaking Point - 5:32
11.  Lead Me On - 5:50
12.  Before You Accuse Me - 3:59
13.  Higher Power (Bonus Track) - 5:16
14.  Border Song (Bonus Track) - 3:23
15.  Forever (Bonus Track) - 3:21
16.  That Kind of Woman (Bonus Track) - 3:57


Companies, etc.

Credits

Notes
Release: 2025
Genre:  Pop, Blues rock
Runtime:  1:12:49
Label:  Bushbranch/Surfdog Records


Sunday, 26 May 2019

Eric Clapton - I Still Do (2016)

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I Still Do his twentieth studio album, by Eric Clapton released through the independent Bushbranch Records/Surfdog Records label.
The album is a combination of new material written by Clapton and classic songs, contemporary tunes and influences interpreted in his own style.
The album was produced by Glyn Johns, who had been producer on Clapton's successful albums Slowhand (1977) and Backless (1978).
The album cover consists of a portrait of Clapton by Peter Blake who had previously designed multiple pages of artwork for Clapton's 1991 album 24 Nights as well as a photo book, containing all of his drawings of Clapton, his band and the Royal Albert Hall in which the album was recorded from 1990 to 1991.
Such mellowed good vibes are the calling card of I Still Do, which otherwise proceeds along the same path Clapton's records follow in the 21st century: he blends covers of well-worn blues standards with a couple of J.J. Cale tunes, a few old pop standards, a Bob Dylan chestnut, and original songs that draw upon aspects of all of these.
"Spiral" and "Catch the Blues," the two EC originals that anchor the middle of the album, are handsomely crafted tunes that complement the rest of the record; they don't draw attention to themselves but rather show how hard "Cypress Grove" swings and how "Alabama Woman Blues" crawls, and reveal the lightness of "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" and "Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day."
Although "I'll Be Seeing You" ends I Still Do on a bit of a wistful note, this album is neither melancholy nor some kind of summation. It is simply Clapton being Clapton, enjoying the company of his longtime band and songs he's loved, and here he's fortunate enough to be produced by Johns, whose expert touch gives this weight and color absent from the otherwise amiable Old Sock.
That's enough to give I Still Do some resonance because Johns focuses not on the songs but the interplay: it's not a vibe record so much as it's an album about the interplay of old pros who still get a kick playing those same old changes years after they've become second nature.

Tracklist

1.  "Alabama Woman Blues"  (Leroy Carr) - 5:06
2.  "Can't Let You Do It"  (J.J. Cale) - 3:50
3.  "I Will Be There" (featuring Angelo Mysterioso)  (Paul Brady, John O'Kane) - 4:37
4.  "Spiral"  (Eric Clapton, Andy Fairweather Low, Simon Climie) - 5:04
5.  "Catch the Blues"  (Eric Clapton) - 4:51
6.  "Cypress Grove"  (Skip James) - 4:49
7.  "Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day"  (Maurice Sigler, Mabel Wayne, Al Hoffman) - 3:11
8.  "Stones in My Passway"  (Robert Johnson) - 4:03
9.  "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine"  (Bob Dylan) - 4:02
10.  "I'll Be Alright"  (Traditional) - 4:23
11.  "Somebody's Knockin'"  (J.J. Cale) - 5:11
12.  "I'll Be Seeing You"  (Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain) - 5:00

Limited Edition "Denim Box" version – Bonus Tracks
13. "Lonesome" 
14. "Freight Train"

Personnel

Production
  • Producer and Mixing – Glyn Johns
  • Engineers – Martin Hollis and Glyn Johns
  • Assistant Engineer – Rowan McIntosh
  • Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering (Portland, ME).
  • Art Direction and Design – Catherine Roylance
  • Layout – Brice Beckham
  • Artwork Technician – Matthew Gordon
  • Cover Painting – Sir Peter Blake
  • Photography – Catherine Roylance, Nick Roylance, Craig Stecyk, Simon Whitehead and Getty Images.

 Notes
Released: 20 May 2016
Recorded: Studio, British Grove Studios
Genre - Blues rock
Length: 54:07

Label - Bushbranch/Surfdog 

Monday, 29 April 2019

Eric Clapton - One More Car, One More Rider (2002)

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One More Car, One More Rider is the eighth live album by Eric Clapton, released on 5 November 2002 on Duck / Reprise Records. It is also the third double live album.
The album contains songs performed during Clapton's 2001 world tour.
The recordings on this album are from two nights at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, 18 & 19 August 2001. Accompanying Clapton on this album are Andy Fairweather-Low, Steve Gadd, Nathan East, Billy Preston, Greg Phillinganes, and David Sancious.
Eric Clapton himself said that this would be his last world tour, making this album initially more valuable.
However, he since has toured the world several times, both on his own and with Steve Winwood.
The cover of Eric Clapton's 2002 live album One More Car, One More Rider -- no less than the sixth live album in his solo career -- suggests the problems in the record.
It's designed to look a classic blues album sleeve or poster, but it's self-conscious and affected, the work of somebody that knows the form but not the substance of the blues.
Certainly that accusation can't be reasonably leveled at Clapton who, after all, has proved throughout his career that he knows the substance of the blues, but ever since his canonization to the MOR mainstream with 1992's Unplugged, there's a sinking feeling that EC dabbles in the blues instead of lives there.
Sure, he had a fierce testimonial to his favorite music with From the Cradle, but One More Car, One More Rider arrives nearly a decade later, and the difference is stunning. Though he goes through the motions of playing the blues -- a cutting version of the perennial "Key to the Highway," "Hoochie Coochie Man," "Goin' Down Slow," among others here -- the heart of this album is closer to the NPR instrumental jam of "Reptile" than blues.
This is mannered, "classy" playing which sounds perfectly fine but is never interesting, particularly since the song selection favors either warhorses or recent hits. In short, it's a record for those that like the idea of Clapton more than his music.

Disc One

Acoustic:
  1. "Key to the Highway" (Broonzy, Charles Segar) – 3:41
  2. "Reptile" (Eric Clapton) – 5:59
  3. "Got You on My Mind" (Howard Biggs, Joe Thomas) – 3:51
  4. "Tears in Heaven" (Clapton, Will Jennings) – 4:34
  5. "Bell Bottom Blues" (Clapton) – 5:02
  6. "Change the World" (Gordon Kennedy, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Tommy Sims) – 6:16
Electric:
  1. "My Father's Eyes" (Clapton) – 8:34
  2. "River of Tears" (Clapton, Simon Climie) – 8:59
  3. "Going Down Slow" (Saint Louis Jimmy) – 5:34
  4. "She's Gone" (Clapton, Climie) – 6:58

Disc Two

Electric:

  1. "I Want a Little Girl" (Murray Mencher, Billy Moll) – 4:38
  2. "Badge" (Clapton, George Harrison) – 6:02
  3. "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Willie Dixon) – 4:30
  4. "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" (Billy Myles) – 7:53
  5. "Cocaine" (J. J. Cale) – 4:20
  6. "Wonderful Tonight" (Clapton) – 6:42
  7. "Layla" (Clapton, Jim Gordon) – 9:16
  8. "Sunshine of Your Love" (Peter Brown, Jack Bruce, Clapton) – 7:11
Acoustic:
  1. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg) – 6:33
Personnel
Companies, etc.

Credits

Notes
Released: 5 November 2002 
Recorded: 18 & 19 August 2001, Staples Center, Los Angeles, California 
Genre: Rock, blues 
Length: 116:33 

Label - Duck / Reprise Records

Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert (1973)

“Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert” is a live album by English musician Eric Clapton, recorded at London's Rainbow Theatre on 13 January 1973 and released in September that year. The concert was organised by Pete Townshend of the Who and marked a comeback by Clapton after two years of inactivity, broken only by his performance at the Concert for Bangladesh in August 1971.
Along with Townshend, the musicians supporting Clapton include Steve Winwood, Ronnie Wood and Jim Capaldi.
This concert is the first live performance where Clapton used his famous Stratocaster guitar "Blackie".
The concert was recorded using Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio.
A remastered expanded edition of the album was released on 13 January 1995, the 22nd anniversary of the original concert.

Track listing

1. "Badge"  (Eric Clapton, George Harrison)  - 3:32
2. "Roll It Over"  (Clapton, Bobby Whitlock)  - 6:43
3. "Presence of the Lord"  (Clapton)  - 5:37
4. "Pearly Queen"  (Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood)  - 7:00
5. "After Midnight"  (J. J. Cale)  - 5:12
6. "Little Wing"  (Jimi Hendrix)  - 6:32

Credits
Eric Clapton – guitar (lead) & vocals
Pete Townshend – guitar (rhythm) & vocals
Ronnie Wood – guitar (rhythm and slide) & vocals
Ric Grech – bass guitar
Steve Winwood – keyboards & vocals
Jim Capaldi – drums & vocals
Jimmy Karstein – drums
Rebop Kwaku Baah – percussion
Producer - Bob Pridden

Notes
Recorded 13 January 1973 at Rainbow Theatre, London
Genre: Blues-rock
Length: 34:48

© 1973 RSO Records

Sunday, 20 January 2013

Eric Clapton - Rush (Soundtrack) (1992)

"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)  - 4:30

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 - background vocals

Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Eric Clapton - Journeyman (1989)

"Journeyman" is the eleventh studio album by blues/rock musician Eric Clapton, released in 1989.
The album was heralded as a return to form for Clapton, who had struggled with alcohol addiction throughout the mid-1980s and had recently found sobriety. Much of it has an electronic sound, mostly influenced by the 1980s rock scene, but it also includes blues songs like "Before You Accuse Me," "Running On Faith," and "Hard Times." The strongest single commercially from this album was "Bad Love," which earned him the 1990 Best Male Rock Vocal Performance Grammy Awards, and reached the #1 position on the Album Rock Chart. "Pretending" had also reached the #1 position on the Album Rock Chart. For most of the '80s, Eric Clapton seemed rather lost, uncertain of whether he should return to his blues roots or pander to AOR radio. By the mid-'80s, he appeared to have made the decision to revamp himself as a glossy mainstream rocker, working with synthesizers and drum machines. Instead of expanding his audience, it only reduced it. Then came the career retrospective "Crossroads", which helped revitalize his career, not only commercially, but also creatively, as "Journeyman" the first album he recorded after the success of "Crossroads"  proved. Although "Journeyman" still suffers from an overly slick production, Clapton sounds more convincing than he has since the early '70s. Not only is his guitar playing muscular and forceful, his singing is soulful and gritty. Furthermore, the songwriting is consistently strong, alternating between fine mainstream rock originals "Pretending" and covers "Before You Accuse Me," "Hound Dog". Like any of Clapton's best albums, there is no grandstanding to be found on "Journeyman it's simply a laid-back and thoroughly engaging display of Clapton's virtuosity.
 

01.  "Pretending"  (Jerry Lynn Williams)  – 4:48
02.  "Anything for Your Love"  (Williams)  – 4:16
03.  "Bad Love " (Eric Clapton, Mick Jones)  – 5:11
04.  "Running on Faith"  (Williams)  – 5:27
05.  "Hard Times"  (Ray Charles)  – 3:00
06.  "Hound Dog"  (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)  – 2:26
07.  "No Alibis"  (Williams)  – 5:32
08.  "Run So Far"  (George Harrison)  – 4:06
09.  "Old Love"  (Clapton, Robert Cray)  – 6:25
10.  "Breaking Point"  (Marty Grebb, Williams)  – 5:37
11.  "Lead Me On"  (Cecil Womack, Linda Womack)  – 5:52
12.  "Before You Accuse Me"  (Ellas McDaniel)  – 3:55

Released:  November 7, 1989
Genre:  Blues Rock
Length:  56:35
Label:  Duck / Reprise
Producer:  Jill Dell'Abate, Russ Titelman

Personnel
Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals, Dobro, design
Phil Collins - drums, background & harmony vocals
David Sanborn - alto saxophone
Robert Cray - guitar (solo on Old Love and Before You Accuse Me)
Phil Palmer - guitar
John Tropea - rhythm guitar
George Harrison - guitar & harmony vocals
Cecil Womack - acoustic guitar, vocals
Jerry Williams - guitar, background & harmony vocals
Nathan East - bass, background vocals
Pino Palladino - bass
Darryl Jones - bass
Gary Burton - vibraphone
Hank Crawford - alto saxophone
Ronnie Cuber - baritone saxophone
David "Fathead" Newman - tenor saxophone
Jon Faddis - trumpet & horn
Lew Soloff - trumpet
Steve Ferrone - drums & Hi Hat
Jim Keltner - percussion, drums, tambourine, drum programming
Jeff Bova - synthesizer, programming, drum programming, synthesizer horn
Jimmy Bralower - drum programming
Alan Clark - synthesizer, keyboards, Hammond organ, sequencing
Robbie Kondor - synthesizer, harmonica, keyboards, vocoder, drum programming
Rob Mounsey - synthesizer
Robby Kilgore - synthesizer
Greg Phillinganes - synthesizer, piano, keyboards, background vocals
Richard Tee - piano, Fender Rhodes
Carol Steele - percussion, conga, tambourine
Arif Mardin - arranger, string arrangements
Linda Womack - vocals
Daryl Hall - harmony vocals
Tawatha Agee - background vocals
Lani Groves - background vocals
Chaka Khan - background vocals
Tessa Niles - background vocals
Vaneese Thomas - background vocals
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