Eric Clapton - Unplugged
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Free Music Notes for Unplugged
Free Music Review: totally cool
Hit: 5 Stars
cool guitar, no electricity. coll blues and rock. redid layla. other songs such as tears in heaven slow bluesy and cool. poor beutiful and cool guitar playing.Free Music Review: Guitar God Captures Career in Acoustic Performance
Hit: 4 Stars
I must admit that when one of our generation's finest electric guitarists transformed himself into a singer-songwriter a number of years ago I was not impressed. I understood his reasons but just didn't connect with the music. But this set for MTV's "Unplugged" series could convert the most diehard Cream fan.There are the requisite traditional blues numbers (including two of Robert Johnson's) played with reverence but lacking the emotional impact of the originals. There's a fine version of his touching Tears in Heaven, a perfect match for his voice. San Francisco Bay Blues is rollicking good fun. Alberta had the audience rockin' along.
But buy the CD for the four songs that earned it four stars: The set takes off with cut six's version of Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out. This is followed by the by-now-well-known reworking of Layla. It's remarkable that the artist could produce two such dramatically different but successful readings of his own song. Both the loud and powerful original Derek and the Dominoes version and this slower ballad are stunning. Layla is followed by Running on Faith, maybe the best performance of the set. And then there's Old Love, featuring guitar (EC) and piano (Chuck Leavell) jazz solos. Everyone plays well, the background singing by Katie Kissoon and Tessa Niles fills in nicely on several cuts, and the audience clearly had a good time. You will too listening to this performance.
Add Unplugged to Best of Cream, Layla, and Blind Faith as essential Clapton components of your collection.
Free Music Review: Seminal
Hit: 4 Stars
This was a seminal performance that introduced Eric Clapton to a whole new generation of listeners, and showcased Clapton's blues roots to the rest of us. Clapton infuses a raw and honest soul into many of the songs, especially the live version of "Tears in Heaven" which was of course written for his son who tragically died. His unplugged version of "Layla" is also quite good, and many of the other tracks showcase a strong tradional blues sensibility that most Claption fans might not have always realized existed.Free Music Review: Tears In Heaven, the BEST song!!
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is spectacular! Tears In Heaven is the BEST song! Okay, I first listened to this album a couple weeks ago and never in my life heard Eric Clapton before, seeing as he is before my time. I first put the song on Tears In Heaven because I liked the name. From the time I FIRST started listening to it I was in tears and by the end I was soaked! This song is just wonderful! The rest of the album is great too but Tears In Heaven just lights up the WHOLE album! This is a must for any Eric Clapton fan and a must for anyone who has lost someone...This album shows that Eric Clapton IS a living legend!Free Music Review: Lo How The Mighty Have Fallen
Hit: 2 Stars
Proof as if any were needed, that most live albums are no good. Eric Clapton was once considered a gOd, now he's just living on the hype. His unplugged redoes of old chestnuts are as uninspiring as they are downtempo. Anyone familiar with the painful ubiquitous butchery of `Layla' will know what I mean, the whole album is done at this speed. The other well-known track is the sappy `Tears In Heaven' about which the less said the better. This album is as tiresome and worn out as Clapton himself. Let the old dog die in peace.