ERIC CLAPTON From The Cradle REPRISE GERMANY Gatefold Like New LP

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ERIC CLAPTON From The Cradle
NM/NM Used Vinyl Record

Record Label: Reprise 9362-45735-1 (Germany)

From the Cradle is a blues cover album by Eric Clapton. It is also his twelfth studio album. Released on 13 September 1994 by Reprise Records, the album was Eric Clapton's long awaited follow-up to his massively-successful live album, Unplugged. 

Gatefold jacket has nearly no wear save for a quarter inch split on the top of the record side. Otherwise, the sleeve looks brand new. There are no spindle marks on the label. Vinyl looks like new and plays beautifully.

Side One
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

Side Two
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' Blues
16. Groaning the Blues

Review: Some 30 years after cutting BLUESBREAKERS with John Mayall, Slowhand is back... and he's plugged in, too. From the Elmore James-styled slide grunge that heralds Leroy Carr's classic "Blues Before Sunrise," to his sweet, pearly tones on an agonizingly slow "Third Degree," it's clear that FROM THE CRADLE really is your parents' Eric Clapton.

Nearly every album Clapton's ever done has had a suggestion of his roots. But there's more than a suggestion of blues on impassioned, unhinged solos like "Five Long Years," "It Hurts Me Too" and "Someday After A While"... Clapton betrays a childlike pleasure in coming out from behind his pop persona, and the joy is infectious.That's because FROM THE CRADLE is recorded live...that is to say, everyone at once, with no instrumental or vocal overdubs (save for the sweet dobro obbligatos on an old-timey sounding "How Long Blues"). The slower tempos, like a lowdown "Sinner's Prayer" and the acoustic "Driftin'" really showcase his growth as a vocalist (particularly that bullfrog groan, by way of Muddy Waters, whom he honors with an especially faithful cover of "Standin' Round Crying"). And when Clapton leaves Earth orbit on Willie Dixon's "Groaning The Blues," you get the feeling Eric may never leave the blues again. More, please.

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