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Eric Clapton
- Record Label: ADA
- Release Date: Jul 29, 2014
- Artist(s): Tim Jackson, Nick Maroudias, Robert Knight, Jim Karstein
- Summary: The tribute to JJ Cale by Eric Clapton features performances by Mark Knopfler, Christine Lakeland, John Mayer, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty, Derek Trucks, and Don White.
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- Record Label: ADA
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Blues-Rock
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Mixed: 6 out of 10
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Jul 29, 2014Clapton shares some of his most transcendent guitar playing in years, especially the slide-guitar peaks of “I’ll Be There” and “I Got the Same Old Blues.” Most of his collaborations are inspired.
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Jul 29, 2014Eric Clapton calls his new album of J.J. Cale songs an appreciation rather than a tribute, and that word choice gets at the appealingly modest vibe of this record.
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Jul 29, 2014Breeze: An Appreciation Of JJ Cale isn’t a perfect record by any means, but if these versions of his best-loved songs from Eric Clapton, John Mayer, Willie Nelson and Mark Knopfler encourage people to listen to Cale’s originals, the whole effort will have been worthwhile.
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MojoJul 25, 2014Fade-outs on six of the songs suggest a studio-jam approach that works well, but some of the best tracks are the ones that shirk blues idioms. [Aug 2014, p.90]
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Jul 29, 2014Clapton's renditions can be a little too faithful.
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Jul 25, 2014Purists will lap this up, but ultimately, as lovingly constructed a tribute as this is, there’s an unavoidable sense that Clapton is preaching exclusively to the choir.
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Jul 28, 2014It's all perfectly pleasant and a convincing testament to what Clapton learned from Cale, although its silvery monochromatic shuffles suggest J.J. was a little more one-dimensional than he actually was.
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Sep 16, 2014
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