Clapton - Eric Clapton
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  • Summary: At 65, the British blues-rock guitarist returns with a new album that rediscovers and reinvents classic jams, including songs by noted composers such as Irving Berlin and Fats Waller.

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  1. All Music Guide
    90
    Eric Clapton has never sounded so relaxed on record, either as a singer - he is supple and casually authoritative, a far cry from the tentative lead vocalist of his earliest solo records - or a band leader, sounding at peace with his past yet harboring no desire to recycle it, even if he's reaching back far beyond the blues that initially sparked his interest in music.
  2. Rolling Stone
    80
    Clapton is both impulses in one record, for the first time: a serenely masterful engagement with roots--the guitarist co-wrote just one original--that is all over the place in repertoire yet devoutly grounded in its roaming.
  3. Mojo
    80
    After all this time, Eric Clapton finally sounds at peace with himself; secure even. [Oct. 2010, p. 88]
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  4. Uncut
    60
    It's yielded his best solo album in years. Rather than home, it's actually a close-knit kind of jam session. [Oct 2010, p.96]
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  1. PF73
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    Superbe album, la seule chose qui me déçoit, c'est la couverture. Rien que pour la magnifique chanson Diamonds made of rain l'album vaut le coup, j'écoute cette chanson en boucle.… Expand

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