 Unplugged w/Eric Clapton 1992 CD Review created: 07/14/06(updated 11/10/06) 53 of 54 people found this review helpful.
I've got a host of Clapton CD's, including classics, but this one beats them all. I say so because of how Clapton turned "Layla" into a slow blues song, ingeniously showing his maturity as a musician who can critique and revise his own key hits from years back. I can hardly listen to "Tears in Heaven," knowing it means the sudden death of his pre-school son who fell out of an up stairs window. "Before You Accuse me," (better look at yourself) is also one of my favorites. The rest are worth every second of your listening time and mine:
Track listing
1. Signe
2. Before You Accuse Me
3. Hey Hey
4. Tears In Heaven
5. Lonely Stranger
6. Nobody Knows You
7. Layla
8. Running On Faith
9. Walking Blues
10. Alberta
11. San Francisco Bay Blues
12. Malted Milk
13. Old Love
14. Rollin' And Tumblin'
The CD in 61 minutes long, and of course, the middle-age Eric Clapton plays guitar and sings, like only he can.
All of these folks joined Unplugged to make for a dandy 1993 triple Grammy winning Album of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance: Andy Fairweather-Low (guitar); Chuck Leavell (keyboards); Nathan East (bass); Steve Ferrone (drums); Ray Cooper (percussion); Katy Kissoon, Tessa Niles (background vocals).
You want some matured and seasoned Clapton to listen to? Get this one.
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Eric Clapton, older, wiser, mellower, clean and sober, is as good as the Slowhand we knew when he was playing "White Room", "Badge" or "Presence of the Lord" and leading Cream, Blind Faith or even Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. This CD shows the artist maybe not at the top of his game, but certainly at the tope of the acustic Clapton.
Tears in Heave is a heartbreaker; loss and sorrow for a father.
Before You Accuse Me, driving and bluesy;
Layla, even the acoustic version, remains the quintessential rock song ... bearly edging out "Tough Me" by the Doors.
Alberta is just downright fun.
And San Francsico Bay Blues makes you want to move there.
Clapton, more than any other musician of the modern era, can do it all and do it convincinly. He is a generous performer, giving listeners what they want and how they want it.
Clapton's Unplugged is a portrait of an artist in the full.
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