Eric Clapton From the Cradle ( HQ 180g vinyl 2LP )

Release date:  12-06-2014 (originally released in 1994)

2014 EU reissue HQ 180g vinyl 2LP - 1995 Grammy Award Winner for Best Traditional Blues Album Housed in a gatefold picture sleeve. Cut from the Original Masters by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering

After reaching new heights in 1992 with his massively successful live Unplugged album, Eric Clapton returned to his blues roots with the release of From The Cradle in 1994, a Grammy award winning tribute to his musical heroes with 16 cover versions of blues warhorses from the likes of Willie Dixon, Freddie King, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Leroy Carr and Lowell Fulson. Clapton's long love affair with the blues is at the heart and soul of From The Cradle and the deep influence and emotional impact it's had on his music is exorcised in every last note here.

Tracks: (2LP)
LP1
A1 Blues Before Sunrise
A2 Third Degree
A3 Reconsider Baby
A4 Hoochie Coochie Man

B1 Five Long Years
B2 I'm Tore Down
B3 How Long Blues
B4 Goin' Away Baby

LP2
C1 Blues Leave Me Alone
C2 Sinner's Prayer
C3 Motherless Child
C4 It Hurts Me Too (Written-By – Elmore James)

D1 Someday After A While
D2 Standin' Round Crying
D3 Driftin'
D4 Groaning The Blues

"Nothing but my soul to save from the cradle to the grave. And it was one of those things, you wake up in the middle of the night and run downstairs and write it down. I didn't know what it meant. And I thought, well, I would abbreviate it, the front, From The Cradle, the title. What it means I think is that this music I'm making here has been my motivation. It's the thing I've turned to, the thing that has given me inspiration and relief, in all of the trials and tribulations of my life. I've always had this incredibly secure place to go...with that, with the blues. And this is the first testament to that, that I've ever made, really, on my own." - Eric Clapton

Musicians:
Eric Clapton (guitar, vocals)
Andy Fairweather Low (guitar)
Dave Bronze (bass)
Jim Keltner (drums)
Jerry Portnoy (harmonica)
Chris Stainton (keyboards)
Roddy Lorimer (trumpet)
Simon Clarke (baritone saxophone)
Tim Sanders (tenor saxophone)
Richie Hayward (percussion)