It also includes one of his loveliest ballads, Let It Grow, showing his increasing interest in vocals and song craft over jamming. It remains a strong album, filled with tracks fueled by the groove, whether the reggae feel of the hit, the chunky update of Willie & the Hand Jive, or the blues funk of Motherless Children and Get Ready. The result was 461 Ocean Boulevard, and the huge hit, I Shot The Sheriff. A band was assembled featuring a bunch of Tulsa players, and their laid-back groove perfectly fitted where Clapton wanted to be, far away from guitar heroics. Finally clean, he headed to Florida to record with Tom Dowd, but didn’t have a lot of ideas. Derek & the Dominoes had imploded, and he had developed a heroin habit that kept him from recording. This was the return of Clapton from three years of mostly sitting on the sidelines. Unplugged just got that treatment in the fall, and now is followed by this forensic look at Clapton in ’74-’75. Since then, the Clapton vaults have regularly put forward deluxe editions, several live compilations, and remasters. back in 1988 with the release of Crossroads, which sold several million copies, and proved that there was a huge appetite for bonus tracks, booklets, and best-of cuts. The whole idea of the big, four-disc, career-spanning compilation started with E.C. Eric Clapton Give Me Strength: The ’74/’75 Studio Recordings (2013)Įric Clapton is still God.
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