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From the Cradle | 
| Artist: Eric Clapton
Label: Warner
Category: Music
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 10849
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 45735
UPC: 093624573524
EAN: 0093624573524
ASIN: B000002MTU
Release Date: September 12, 1994
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| Tracks:
| • | Blues Before Sunrise | | • | Third Degree | | • | Reconsider Baby | | • | Hoochie Coochie Man | | • | Five Long Years | | • | I'm Tore Down | | • | How Long Blues | | • | Goin' Away Baby | | • | Blues Leave Me Alone | | • | Sinner's Prayer | | • | Motherless Child | | • | It Hurts Me Too | | • | Someday After A While | | • | Standin' Round Crying | | • | Driftin' | | • | Groaning The Blues |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
The full-tilt blues album that Clapton had been promising for years, From the Cradle proves the guitarist's enduring devotion to a form he had long relegated to merely a flavour in his music rather than the main ingredient. Clapton's singing on the album is somewhat mannered; he tries to compete with original versions of these songs by Muddy Waters, Charles Brown, and others, and there's no way he's going to win that battle. Still, you can feel the emotional connection Clapton has with these songs, and guitar aficionados will swoon over his fretwork on songs such as "Third Degree", "Someday After a While", and the incendiary "Groanin' the Blues". --Daniel Durchholz
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 Great songs brilliantly played June 6, 2008
All blues and every track has character and fire. Some of Clapton's very best work on the guitar I think. If you like EC in blues mode you'll love it.
 Raw, passionate blues November 3, 2007
At the time of it's release; Eric Clapton went on the record to say that this was the blues album he had always wanted to record. And after all, having just sold his bazillionth copy of "Unplugged" you couldn't blame him for feeling confident enough to step out of the shadow of his sterile, over-produced 80's back catalogue. The result is a raw, gutsy album on which Clapton just plugs in his guitar and plays the blues. Honouring some of his most formative influences Leroy Carr "How Long", Freddy King "I'm Tore Down", Lowell Fulson "Reconsider Baby", he plays like a man who has just remembered what his balls are for. No-one will be disappointed by the passion in the guitar playing; but I felt that his growling vocals sometimes grate; especially on Tampa Red's "It Hurts Me Too" and hence the three stars. That said, this is a very satisfying album.
One His Best! August 9, 2007
I think this is one of Eric Clapton's best albums mainly because he has gone back to basics and is doing what he does best, play the blues. He has compiled a great selection of classic blues and his versions are excellent. Good vocals and some superb blues guitar.
Back to his very best June 29, 2007
In which our hero rediscovers his roots again !!. Over 16 tracks Clapton finally puts to bed his miserable 80s period when all too often his playing was more a question of what he could get away with NOT doing. Eric's love for the blues shines through this "live in the studio" album. With the possible exception of "Hoochie Coochie Man" (and, let's face it, when faced with Muddy Waters version of that everything else is going to sound a bit "thin" ) this is an album that shows exactly why Eric was once called "God"
 Claptons Blues April 16, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is what Eric Clapton has always done best - play the blues. On this album all the tracks (16 of them) are blues in all its various forms.
Reading the inside of the sleeve made for refreshing reading as it says "THIS IS A LIVE RECORDING WITH NO OVERDUBS OR EDITS EXCEPT FOR DOBRO OVERDUB ON HOW LONG BLUES AND DRUM OVERDUB ON MOTHERLESS CHILDREN". What a change from his mid to late 80's albums that were vastly over-produced. Great credit to EC for realising that he needed to get away from being a purely commercial artist. If you are being critical you might have thought he could have found something more original to play than another cover of "Hoochie Coochie Man". However I enjoyed it regardless.
The band are some of Clapton's regular guys, Chris Stainton on Keyboards, Andy Fairweather Low Guitar, Jim Keltner drums plus a horn section. Again if you were being critical you'd ask why not some 'real' blues players backing him. However these guys are all professional musicians who deliver nothing less than professional performances and I'm not sure that anybody else could have done any better.
The Robert Johnson sessions are probably better than this album, but you have to put this album in context. It was only a few years earlier that EC had released 'August', where his best songs had been removed by the record company and in many ways he had lost artistic control of his own record. In comparison to that 'work' this album IS a return to his roots that he since never really looked back from.
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