Around this time, Clapton was going through a particularly bluesy phase, culminating with his all blues album "From the Cradle" in 1994.
One partial exception is the song "Change the World," which was a big hit in the U.S. in 1996, reaching the Top Five of the singles chart, and one of the most played songs on the radio that year. It has a much more poppy sound that the others, including a hint of hip hop. But at the same time, Clapton said the song still has "one foot in the blues, even if it's subtly disguised."
"Change the World," released only as an A-side and on a movie soundtrack, is one of four officially released songs here. The others are "Ain't Gone 'N' Give Up on Love," from a live Stevie Ray Vaughan tribute album, "Every Day I Have the Blues," from a "Live at Hyde Park" DVD, and "Low Tide," an instrumental from another movie soundtrack.
The other songs are all blues songs from concert bootlegs. With Clapton bootlegs being very popular, I had no problem sourcing all of them from soundboard boots. Note that I ran them through the MVSEP audio editing program filter to remove the crowd noise, so they'd fit in with the studio tracks. I also boosted the lead vocals on a few tracks that needed it.
This album is 51 minutes long.
01 I Can't Judge Nobody (Eric Clapton)
02 Forty-Four (Eric Clapton)
03 Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do (Eric Clapton)
04 Black Cat Bone (Eric Clapton)
05 I'm Gonna Cut Your Head (Eric Clapton)
06 Blues All Day Long [Blues Leave Me Alone] (Eric Clapton)
07 I Got My Mojo Working (Eric Clapton)
08 Ain't Gone 'N' Give Up on Love (Eric Clapton)
09 Change the World (Eric Clapton)
10 Every Day I Have the Blues (Eric Clapton)
11 Low Tide [Instrumental] (Eric Clapton)
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All I know about the photo used for the cover is that it's from 1996. The little picture of the cat in the top right corner I added on a whim, after doing an image search for the phrase "black cat bone."
I haven't encountered his comments until you mentioned it, so perhaps that's why I'm more forgiving as long as the music's good, but it sucks when an artist you respect acts in a way you very much do not respect. That's why I'm passing on the Chris Isaak stuff, for instance.
ReplyDeleteWait. I'm kind of afraid to ask, but what did Isaak do that was bad?
DeleteThere's a video where he sexually assaults Cameron Diaz live in front of millions during an award show, and just looking at it you can fairly assume there are other cases that weren't televised.
DeleteAh. I didn't know about that. That's pretty weird. But I looked it up a bit and some people think he was told to do it - the award was "Best Kiss" and that show at the time was known for trying to create incidents. I did some searching and no other incidents involving him came up, even with the whole Me Too movement thing happening after that. Compare that with singer Ryan Adams, where incidents of sexual harassment with at least seven different women have emerged.
DeleteThat's true, I didn't hear any other such officially filled complaints against him, unlike Ryan Adams and Marilyn Manson, though even if he was told to do it, I'd like to think most people would ignore a request to forcibly kiss someone unexpecting it on live stage, knowing it was wrong.
DeleteI just lost some respect for him after hearing of this incident.
I agree. Definitely a fiasco and a black mark on him.
DeleteAll People make mistakes, errors of judgement ...doesn't make them bad people. I'm so sick of the new Puritanism, the new witch-hunts.
Deletemaybe i missed it but why do you call it "black cat bone" ?
ReplyDeleteI usually name the albums I made after songs in them. There's a song here called "Black Cat Bone." I didn't know until I made this album though that it's an idiom:
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_cat_bone