I've only included the acoustic version here because the electric one is very similar to the version he did for his 1989 album "Journeyman."Ġ1 Before You Accuse Me (Eric Clapton)Ġ3 Fool's Paradise (Eric Clapton & Marcy Levy)Ġ4 Loving You Is Sweeter than Ever (Eric Clapton)Ġ9 Standing Around Crying (Eric Clapton & Muddy Waters) I hope you'll put up with it though, especially for the historic collaboration between Clapton and Waters.Ĭlapton recorded two versions of the blues classic "Before You Accuse Me" in the late 1970s, an acoustic version and an electric version. Unfortunately, the sound quality for these two is a lot rougher than all the others on the album. The other two unreleased songs are the last two, "Tipitina" and "Standing Around Crying." The latter is a duet with blues great Muddy Waters recorded in concert a few years before Waters died. But on this one he sings prominent backing vocals himself, and also plays some nice lead guitar. Normally, I haven't included them because Clapton usually wasn't very engaged, or even left the stage altogether. All through the 1970s, at least, Clapton usually had at least one spot in his concert set lists where one of his female backing vocalists could sing lead. Most of the songs were released on either the "Blues" or "Crossroads 2" albums. Three of the songs, "To Make Somebody Happy," "Cryin'," and "Water on the Ground," are Clapton originals, which is a bit surprising since he never was a prolific songwriter, and those didn't get released until decades later. That said, the songs he does here are still up to his usual standards. I'm guessing that lack of song variety was a result of his increasing drug and/or alcohol habits. I'd been able to post at least one stray tracks album for each calendar year so far, but this one covers two years. But as the 1970s went on, the number of such songs steadily went down. For the first couple of years, he did a great many songs that never appeared on his studio albums at the time. This one deals with 19.Ĭlapton's solo career really began in 1974 (even though he put out a solo album in 1970). It's been a while since I've posted an Eric Clapton stray tracks album, so here's another one from him.
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