That’s Blues.ĮC played this song in open C# tuning (!) using a slide. Carr died at the age of 30 – liver cirrhosis, too much drinks, Blackwell was shoot in 1962. Between 19 they recorded more than 100 songs, some of them became real evergreens (like How Long Blues). Carr was a self-taught piano player, Blackwell a self-taught guitar player. Louis 1934, for the Vocalion label and covered by many artists like John Lee Hooker and Elmore James) was composed by the Blues duo Leroy Carr (1905 – 1935) and Scrapper Blackwell (1903 – 1962). This very old Blues classic (first recorded in St. I think there is a bit lying around and it would be interesting to put something - there was a blues project I had at one point, where I wanted to do a documentary on the blues, and we did some work with Martin Scorsese on that, but I think it’s still on hold. “Well, now, I am not sure what footage we got of that. The DVD which appears sometimes on the net is not an official release and does not have real DVD quality, as far as I know. It was broadcasted once, at least in Europe. There are rumors around about copyright problems (the video includes many original artists and historical recordings) or EC being unhappy with one of the musicians, but I don’t have the “official” reason. Too bad that the Martin Scorsese video about the tour ( “Nothing But the Blues”) still didn’t find the way into the stores. – Guitar technician Lee Dickson about EC’s guitars during the NBTB-tour, interview 2002 thing, Robert Johnson… we had a guitar change on almost every other song, and that was the nature of the beast.” He was copying everyone’s style – doing an Elmore James slide thing, a B.B. “Oh, we had just tons and tons of guitars there, and twenty four guitars on the road for the tour, just because of the selection of music he was playing. Thanks to John Walasko for the original release dates. So we have to use open tunings, slides and other stuff. The following songs are not easy to play, I’ll try to explain them close to the way EC played them, and maybe even the original artist once did. We’d do it over and over again, in search of that elusive take where the vocals were right, Eric’s guitar playing was as good as it could be, and all the various band members were all locked together in that moment of magic. We’d get in at 10 in the morning and by the evening, we’d pack up to go home and we’d realize we’d only played one number all day. What was unusual was that everything was recorded live in the studio, so Eric could capture that live feel. It was a passion and all his creative energy was being focused into those sessions. You could see that he was really inspired. Vocally and guitar-playing wise he’s never been better. – Eric Clapton, interview and cover notes “Because it’s (the album) the thing I’ve loved from day one, the most exciting and satisfying thing I’ve known. We’d broken up in January or February of this year, and I went downstairs one night and I wrote that rhyme (see above) from which the record is named.” It’s to do with the relationship that I was involved in, with a very beautiful woman, which started and ended over the same time as the record was made. “There’s anger and love and fear on this record, because I was deep into something which was exposing me this way. “All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave….” He played different Gibson guitars instead of his Fender, the worldwide tour was a big success. It’s a tribute to his heroes, and he has studied them very detailed. ![]() It contains only Blues songs, and all songs are cover versions (but nevertheless is was the best selling album worldwide in Oct. “From The Cradle” is a very special Clapton album. – Eric Clapton, in Clapton: The Autobiography It was great fun, and I love every minute of it.” “I went into the studio with the approach that everything would be recorded live, and having chosen the songs, we would play them as much like the original versions as possible, even down to the key they were played in.
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