Artist: ERIC CLAPTON
Album: FROM THE CRADLE (CD)

Release date: 1994
EAN/UPS: 0075992607421
Media type: CD

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."

TRACKLIST CD:

    "Blues Before Sunrise" (Leroy Carr) – 2:58 ; this version is inspired also by Elmore James's rendition of the song
    "Third Degree" (Eddie Boyd, Willie Dixon) – 5:07
    "Reconsider Baby" (Lowell Fulson) – 3:20
    "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Dixon) – 3:16 ; originally performed by Muddy Waters
    "Five Long Years" (Boyd) – 4:47
    "I'm Tore Down" (Sonny Thompson) – 3:02 ; originally performed by Freddie King
    "How Long Blues" (Carr) – 3:09
    "Goin' Away Baby" (James A. Lane) – 4:00
    "Blues Leave Me Alone" (Lane) – 3:36
    "Sinner's Prayer" (Lloyd Glenn, Fulson)[9] – 3:20
    "Motherless Child" (Robert Hicks)[citation needed] – 2:57
    "It Hurts Me Too" (Tampa Red) – 3:17
    "Someday After a While" (King, Thompson) – 4:27
    "Standin' Round Crying" (McKinley Morganfield) – 3:39
    "Driftin'" (Charles Brown, Johnny Moore, Eddie Williams) (Johnny Moore's Three Blazers) – 3:10
    "Groaning the Blues" (Dixon) – 6:05 ; originally performed by Otis Rush