Eric Clapton - Acoustic Blues - Non-Album Acoustic Tracks (2001-2006)

"Unplugged" is Clapton's biggest selling album by far, with sales of 26 million. So you'd think that he would have released something in a similar vein in all the years since then, but he hasn't. And Clapton's great musical love is the blues, so it would make perfect sense for him to put out some kind of acoustic blues album.

Even though he hasn't done that, he usually plays at least a few acoustic songs in his concerts. So I've gathered up a bunch of those from the early 2000s to make the acoustic blues album that he still should put out someday.

I got the idea because his 2004 album "Sessions for Robert J" has four acoustic songs on it. That was nice, but four is way too few. Then I discovered that there were a couple more on a DVD extra with the album. That still wasn't enough, so I went looking for other acoustic versions from around that time period and found some in high quality sound. Virtually all of the others are from concerts, but I edited out the crowd noise, as I usually do with albums like these.

There are a small number of songs where there are other musicians playing, most notably the first one, "Bell Bottom Blues." I love that song so much that I couldn't leave it off the album, since it is done in a semi-acoustic style. But the vast majority of songs are just Clapton with an acoustic guitar.

This album may not have much in the way of blistering solos, but it's great mood music. (Studies actually show that listening to sad music such as the blues helps cheer people up.)

01 Bell Bottom Blues (Eric Clapton)
02 Key to the Highway (Eric Clapton)
03 Me and the Devil Blues (Eric Clapton)
04 From Four until Late (Eric Clapton)
05 Stones in My Passway (Eric Clapton)
06 Love in Vain (Eric Clapton)
07 Ramblin' on My Mind (Eric Clapton)
08 Terraplane Blues (Eric Clapton)
09 Broken Hearted (Eric Clapton & John Mayer)
10 Back Home (Eric Clapton)
11 Outside Woman Blues (Eric Clapton)
12 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (Eric Clapton)
13 I Am Yours (Eric Clapton)
14 When You Got a Good Friend (Eric Clapton)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15101961/EricC_2001-2006_AcousticBlues_atse.zip.html

The cover is of a photo of Clapton playing a custom Martin acoustic in 2004.