Music CD - Eric Clapton: From the Cradle

	Music CD: From the Cradle Artist: Eric Clapton List Price: $13.98 Our Price: $3.95 Your Save: $ 10.03 ( 72% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
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Tracks: 1. Blues Before Sunrise 2. Third Degree 3. Reconsider Baby 4. Hoochie Coochie Man 5. Five Long Years 6. I'm Tore Down 7. How Long Blues 8. Goin' Away Baby 9. Blues Leave Me Alone 10. Sinner's Prayer 11. Motherless Child 12. It Hurts Me Too 13. Someday After A While 14. Standin' Round Crying 15. Driftin' 16. Groaning The Blues
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0093624573524 Label: Reprise / Wea Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea Number Of Discs: 1 Publication Date: 1994 Publisher: Reprise / Wea Release Date: 1994-09-13 Studio: Reprise / Wea
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Clapton's "From the Cradle" Comment: When this album came out I loved it but didn't see it for what it is, simply put, it is the quintessential Clapton BLUES album of his career. I've played blues for about 25 years and this is good stuff. I had this on tape but decided it definately belonged in my collection of "best sets". You won't be disappointed. Get it on CD and save it. Customer Rating: Summary: Best Since Unplugged Comment: This album is awesome. Lots of old blues standards, it's very well produced. If you appreciate the blues or old Clapton you will love this album! Customer Rating: Summary: (4.5 stars) My favorite solo Clapton, believe it or not - with the exception of Layla Comment: Anyone who likes Clapton for his blues material, and who lives in fear of "Wonderful Tonight" and others - this includes me, by the way - will probably get a lot out of this record. Because it is, at long last, a return to electric blues. The obvious question of what took him so long aside, this one rocks. Now I am amazed at what took him so damn long to pull one of these, but I'm glad that he finally did. This is, after all, his best album in quite a while. The Chicago blues cuts are especially memorable and enthusiastic: every idiot has done "Hoochie Coochie Man", but Clapton's no idiot, and he really adds a lot of flavor to it; "Five Long Years" piles on the emotion; the two Freddie King covers ("How Long Blues"; "Someday After a While") are both very memorable, powerful blues tracks with awesome sax parts; "It Hurts Me Too" and "How Long Blues" have some of the best singing Clapton has done in years; and the acoustic blues "Driftin'" easily measures up to the rock tracks, thanks to Clapton's acoustic playing and some intriguing percussion. And in case you ever thought Clapton was a lousy guitarist, I can't see anyone still thinking so after "Groanin' the Blues". Other than "Driftin'", the softer tracks aren't spectacular, though he does pull a convincingly authentic bluesman vocal on "Third Degree" - something Mick Jagger is quite good at, by the way. With the only weak track being a dull "Motherless Child", I have to give this the nod as my favorite Clapton studio album - other than Layla, of course. Customer Rating: Summary: The Best Comment: This has got to be the best all around Blues cd I own it has an excellent mix of Blues music. MR.CLAPTON is bar none one of the Best ever Guitar player's there is. He can perform anything with the highest degree of excellence. I truly believe when he was born he came out of the womb with a Stratocaster in his hands. If you love the BLUES you must have this one. Customer Rating: Summary: To all of you who gave less than 5 stars. Comment: First of all, who are you to say what the blues really is about, and who is allowed to play it. Blues is not about race, age, sex, nationality, etc. Blues is about feeling and experience. Eric is a white guy from England with a heavy british accent. He cannot help that. If you do not think that he deserves to play the blues, then you do not know much about his life. Besides, the guitar playing alone is full of feeling and is a tribute to all of the old time blues players. He is not in competition with them; he is merely paying homage to their music and to the blues This Cd is just incredible. This cd features ECs finest playing. I would give this cd 50 stars if I could. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: The full-tilt blues album that Clapton had been promising for years, From the Cradle proves the guitarist's enduring devotion to a form he had long relegated to merely a flavor in his music rather than the main ingredient. Clapton's singing on the album is somewhat mannered; he tries to compete with original versions of these songs by Muddy Waters, Charles Brown, and others, and there's no way he's going to win that battle. Still, you can feel the emotional connection Clapton has with these songs, and guitar aficionados will swoon over his fretwork on songs such as "Third Degree," "Someday After a While," and the incendiary "Groanin' the Blues." --Daniel Durchholz