That opening riff is total Crosby, Stills & Nash. MORE: Get the Things to Do app | Latest concert announcements | Top concerts this week 16. From the reissue of “461 Ocean Boulevard” (1974). Why? Because it manages to take a great song even higher, a rousing rendition with powerful vocals and some really nice guitar work.
“Tell the Truth” (live)Ī Clapton-Bobby Whitlock co-write, “Tell the Truth” was amazing when Derek and the Dominos did it on “Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.” But I’m going with the live recording from late 1974 at the Hammersmith Odean, included as a bonus track when “461 Ocean Boulevard” was reissued. It’s meant to be a good time and it is, no more, no less.
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It may have seemed a little disingenuous for Eric Clapton to begin a song in 1970 with a statement as ridiculous as “I bet you didn’t think I knew how to rock and roll.” Dude, we knew you when you were in Cream, OK? At least he follows through with a record that proves he knows exactly how to rock and roll with a spirited vocal and scrappy guitar leads.
His soulful reading of the lyrics makes the most of lines as defeated as, “Some of this generation is millionaires and I can’t even keep decent clothes to wear.” But his guitar does all the heavy crying. The most Claptonesque track on “No Reason to Cry,” an album he recorded with the members of the Band, Bob Dylan and Ron Wood, this smoldering blues is an Otis Rush song and Clapton clearly knows his way around this territory. The wah-guitar intro is classic, it ends in a dueling guitar lead and that horn part is a nice touch. “Bad Boy”Ĭlapton’s vocal here is self-assured enough to put across the line, “I’ll be your box of matches, baby, when you need a light” and make it sound like poetry. It starts with Derek and the Dominos because the songs on “Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs” are more of a piece with his solo career than his previous work. Here’s a look at the best of the songs that even now continue to define his legacy. And Clapton definitely lived up to the billing as the former Yardbird who’d already cycled through John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, moved from Cream to Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends and Derek and the Dominos before launching a solo career in 1970 with a self-titled gem of an album. For all the radical renditions Clapton has recorded in his career - from “Crossroads” to “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door”- no could have predicted his 1992 re-envisioning of “Layla” as a work of understated and effortlessly groovy acoustic blues.By 1967, Eric Clapton’s reputation as one of the hottest young guitarists on the British blues scene was such that when somebody spray-painted “Clapton is God” on the Islington Underground station, it stuck. Even as Clapton entered middle age he refused to rest on his laurels. Meanwhile, “Tears In Heaven” became a modern standard, and remains one of the most emotionally fragile songs to ever become a #1 hit. “Change the World” and “My Father’s Eyes,” crossover songs that appealed to fans of pop, R&B and rock alike, were his biggest hits. “Pretending,” “Bad Love” and “It’s In the Way That You Use It” made him relevant to a generation weaned on the Police and Huey Lewis, and his career reached even higher plateaus in the ‘90s. While he could have easily retired in the late ‘70s and coasted along on the basis of his reputation, Clapton used the ‘80s to renew himself as a pop singer and songwriter.
Since Eric Clapton’s ‘60s and ‘70s output has been exhaustively documented, Clapton Chronicles offers a new perspective on his career, focusing solely on the years between 19.
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