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Evan BloomerRating: 10/1022 June 2006What a great album, song Ilike: 'Signe', 'Before You Accuse Me', 'Tears In Heaven' (of cause),'Nobody Knows You', 'Layla', Walkin' Blues', 'Alberta', 'Malted Milk','Old Love', and 'Rollin' & Tumblin'.Amit GabayRating: 10/102 February 2006I love this album!!! Ithink that this is one of his best indeed!!! One of my very favouritealbums! Love Layla, Tears In Heaven, Nobody Knows You When You're Down &Out and Old Love. I have both the CD and the DVD. Fantastic!Dave IndianaRating: 10/106 October 2005Eric has always been astandout as guitarists go and long been one of my most favouritemusicians.
Unplugged Eric Clapton Album
UNPLUGGED carries on the tradition of excellent musicianship,great choice of material, and of course the revelation of true emotionthat is so much a part of Clapton. Not many albums come close or surpassUNPLUGGED. Thanks again, Eric. Sebastian BoschRating: 9/1018 September 2005Shut up all you electricguitarists around the world take an acoustic one and try to do somethinglike this. Without words and obviously don't forget to sing this songswhile you're performing live excuse me I'll go to listen to it one moretime today see you later.Gary S. ArnoldRating: 10/108 September 2005It's now been about 13years since the release of this amazing album, and it has not lost anyof its thrill. As my own learning on guitar progresses, I've decided totake a crack at learning some of what he does.
What I found is that hestands out as brilliant artist who is less about himself and more abouthis music, which he gives us with dignified and elegant simplicity. Ofcourse, simple doesn't mean easy.
After a couple of years, I'm stillwrestling with the Old Love solo. Playing it just adds to theappreciation. Thanks to EC, I've fallen in love with slide guitar, andand found a fresh, new dimension of appreciation for Delta blues. Thisguy is amazing.RoryRating: 10/1020 August 2005Sheer excellence.Hehighlights his best abilities as a guitarist and as a vocalist with hisinfluential meaningful songs and with his great interpretations ofclassics which couldn't get any better.Brad LalouRating: 10/102 May 2004Eric Clapton was destinedto be a great acoustic guitarist. He had a rollercoaster ride before thealbum, addiction and alcohol addiction.
He was great in The Yardbirdsand Cream and Derek and The Dominos, but for me, Eric is best when he isjust by himself. The acoustic version of 'Layla' is great, its just asgood as the original. In 'Tears In Heaven' he pours his heart out afterthe tragic s of Stevie Ray Vaughn and others, and the of Conor, his son.Over the years I have seen him in concert, and am seeing him again atthe Hallam FM Arena when he comes, and I was lucky enough to see him atBirkdale School where he did a private talk/concert for the parents ofpupils who go to Birkdale.
Jim GuignardRating: 10/1017 March 2003Being a 'boomer', I am old enough to remember Eric fromthe '60's. While I always admired his skill as a guitarist, I was neverreally a fan. I felt that Eric was just another of the many 'guitarheroes' around at the time. Unplugged made me a fan, and I have been oneever since. 'Layla' just blew me away, and Eric's guitar solo in 'OldLove' followed by Chuck Leavelle's keyboard solo was great also. Theother highlight for me was 'Rollin' and Tublin', which was an impromptujam. The blues songs covered were a nice preview of what we couldexpect from 'From The Cradle'. The only 'negative' I have is that 'MyFather's Eyes', 'Circus Left Town', and 'Worried Life Blues', which werepart of the original show, were left off the CD and video. Also, Ericdid 5 of the numbers twice, the second playing being the one on thealbum in a couple of instances.
Michael WheelerRating: 10/1025 September 2002Unplugged is Eric Clapton at his finest. It includes 'Runninon Faith possibly his finest song. The dobro gives the song a newidentity.
Eric plays the slide well. He rarely plays dobro in concertand it gave us a chance to see how versatile a guitarist he really is.The Classic 'Tears In Heaven' is of course one of his classics. 'WalkinBlues' again shows him on dobro doing, his down home Mississippi Deltablues. Again his dobro is flawless as he taps his foot to give the musica beat. Alberta the old Ledbelly song is another song I cant get enoughof as is 'San Francisco Bay blues. On San Francisco Bay blues themembers of the band all play Kazoos.
This shows a lighter side of EricClapton that we rarely see. This however is only on the video, which isa most for any EC fan. This is the first time I had ever seen EC fingerpick a guitar. I thought he was strictly a flat pick lead guitarist.This is Eric at his best. It includes a version of 'Layla' that isjazzier than the original.
I must admit that I was glad that heeventually went back to the electric version at his concerts. My onlyregret is that I find myself wanting more. His version of the old Creamsong 'Rollin and Tumblin' is the finale and really rocks as he uses hisslide with his open 'G' tuning. When does Vol.2 come out? Galen SandersonRating: 10/109 March 2002This album rocks!!!!!
Plain and simple, this album transcendsartistic talent on Eric's part. You can tell that he put his heart andsoul into every note of every song. From the first note of Signe to thelast of Rollin And Tumblin.it will captivate and surprise.
The man isa musical genius and he proved it with this album.and to think healmost didn't release it because he didn't think it was goodenough.that would have been a tragedy. But lucky for us, thisalbum WAS released. The ultimate tribute to his son and a musical treatfor all of his fans. Thank you Eric for a great album!!!!
Keep Rockin'dude.your the man!!!!! DanielRating: 9/1017 November 2000We all know the tragic story behind this album. The loss of Conor, Eric's only son.As it turned out, this was Eric's best selling album since the Cream days.To this day it has sold more than 7 million copies in US only. Mostly because of the monster hit.Clapton wrote the main part of the song and the bridge (Time can bring you down.) was written by Will Jennings.This song is the one that most people think of when they hear about Clapton. This album has a great version of it and is more soulful than the studio recording (that was released on the soundtrack for the movie Rush. It can also be found on the greatest hits collection).Perhaps it's been played too much on the radio but it's still a good song.The other hit from this record was the new acoustic version of. Not asHugh as, though.
Often people either hates this new version and prefer the original, electric version on the Derek & The Dominos album, or the completely love it and dislike the original 1970 recording. I like the both versions. While the electric version is a great rocker with a real powerful riff, the acoustic version is slowed down and very low. One thing that the new version has that the electric version lacks is a great, semi-fantastic solo.But this album has much more to offer than these two hit-singles. It opens with Signe, anup-beat instrumental samba-like song that's very nice. After follows a great version of the Bo Diddley song Before You Accuse Me with only Eric and Andy Fairweather-Low on guitars. I don't know what the rest of the band were doing.
It's a quite standard 12 bar blues thing, but since I'm a great fan 12 bar blues I think it's great! Hey, Hey is the next song and this is also a standardblues song written by Big Bill Broonzy (that also wrote another of Eric's favoritesongs: Key To The Highway) with a funny intro and main riff. Then, the monster hit.Next follows an Clapton original, Lonely Stranger. I really love this song and itfeatures some of the best singing from Eric ever!
To me the lyrics are very good too: 'Some might say that I'm no good, baby, I agree'. That's the blues in one sentence. Love it!Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out is the second song on this album that was recorded by the Dominos. This song is also rearranged, this time faster than the'-version. Layla is followed by the Jerry Lynn Williams written song, Running On Faith. This version is much better than the studio version on Journeyman and hassome great dobro-playing by Eric. Next: Walking Blues, Robert Johnson written blues standard with marvelous slide-guitar playing from EC!
Eric Clapton Unplugged Layla
Oh, is that great or what?! Alberta is next and it's very good (but I do like the version on the collection' better, recorded during the' sessions if I recall it right.) tasteful piano delivered by ChuckLeavell. San Francisco Bay Blues is another fun number with the audience clapping hands and the band on kazoos! Some more Robert Johnson with the song Malted Milk. Next song is one of the really highlights on the album: Old Love. This track wasfeatured on and once again this song easily beats out the original studio-recording! That solo is so great!
I can't find words to describe it. Just simply on of the best solos Eric has ever given us. After this great ballad the fantastic slide-guitar of Clapton slowly fades in with the song Rollin' &Tumblin'.The reason for fading in is that this song was never attended to be on the album, not even rehearsed! If you ever wondered why Clapton says 'Did you get that?' , he asked if they got it on tape, if it was recorded. I think that he was really proud of that version, and he should be!Eric was not sure if it was the right thing to release this album, he thought that he didn't reach his normal standard.
He was finally convinced by people that it was great and worth releasing. Thank God for that! It earned Clapton sixGrammy-awards and is one of the greatest artistically comebacks ever! Gareth DaviesRating: 10/1017 September 2000What can I say about such as great album.
Eric Clapton Unplugged Song List
Winner of so many Grammy's!This album is one of those that will never date. I admit I am listening toit now while creating this page.You never grow tired of hearing this album. It is the mother of allalbums!TO ADD YOUR OWN REVIEW PLEASE EMAIL THE WEBMASTER USING THE CONTACT WEBMASTER LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WEBSITEPLEASE BE CLEAR WHEN SUBMITTING REVIEWS. IF INDOUBT, PLEASE COPY AND PASTE THE NAME OF THE ALBUM/DVD/CD YOU ARE REVIEWING INTOTHE EMAIL.
