Eric Clapton To Release New Album Inspired By Blues Music

[madinmaryland]

LOS ANGELES—Musician Eric Clapton announced Wednesday that his next album, Eric Clapton Plays The Blues, would be a collection of songs primarily influenced by blues music, a genre the 66-year-old guitarist said he enjoys very much. "I've always been interested in blues music, and this album will really explore that interest," Clapton told reporters, explaining that many of the new songs would feature long blues guitar solos, repeating 12-bar-blues chord structures, and lyrical themes centered around both getting and continuing to have the blues. "I'm fairly confident about the project, as I plan to sing with a sort of forlorn, bluesy quality in my voice, and I'll be playing a lot of E, A, and B chords, along with all the blue notes of the scale. Just pure and simple blues, really." Clapton later admitted that while each track would definitely be inspired by blues music, the final product might actually be more of a blues-rock album.

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[Amerigo Vespucci]

1. "From The Cradle" was pretty sweet.

Didn't enjoy the last album at all...it was almost as if he tried to do everything except "be Eric Clapton."

"Reconsider Baby" came at the end of a sting of reasonably "commercial" albums, so Clapton felt he "earned" the right to record an album of straight-ahead blues.

So the fact that he's gearing up to do something like that again is great news indeed. My first exposure to Clapton was in Cream, after that I backtracked and heard his work with Mayall and The Yardbirds, and have followed his career ever since.

I will always be a bigger fan of the in-your-face Clapton than I will be of the guy who seemingly puts a version of "Wonderful Tonight" on every third album he releases.

:-)

[gratuitous]

2. Pssst . . . check the link

It's the Onion.

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[geardaddy]

3. Brilliant.

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