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Length
  
60:10

Release date
  
12 August 1994

Artist
  
Eric Clapton

Label
  
Reprise Records

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Released
  
13 September 1994 (1994-09-13)

Recorded
  
1994, Olympic Studios, Barnes, London

Producer
  
Eric Clapton, Russ Titelman

From the Cradle (1994)
  
The Cream of Clapton (1995)

Genres
  
Blues, Electric blues, British blues, Soul blues

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album

Similar
  
Eric Clapton albums, Blues albums

Eric clapton from the cradle 1994


From the Cradle is a 1994 album by Eric Clapton released on 13 September by Warner Bros. Records. It is a blues cover album. The album was Clapton's follow-up to his successful 1992 live album, Unplugged.

Contents

Although he had long been associated with the blues, From the Cradle was Clapton's first attempt at an all-blues album. He would subsequently record Riding with the King with B. B. King; a tribute to Robert Johnson, Me and Mr. Johnson; and a collaboration with J. J. Cale, The Road to Escondido.

Eric clapton from the cradle full album


Critical reception

From the Cradle has prompted a wide range of critical response. Many questioned the title itself as Clapton learned the blues formula from records later in life and certainly was not exposed to Black culture "from the cradle", although the title likely refers to the saying "from the cradle to the grave". Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic feels that the album is almost perfect and that the only thing bad about the album is Clapton's singing, which merely imitates the original recordings and sometimes can't pull it off. Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly felt that the recordings were "flawless" but were rather boring, especially when compared to the excitement of Cream's live version of "Spoonful". The Music Box's John Metzger felt that Clapton's appearance on Saturday Night Live to promote the album was more powerful than From the Cradle and that the album had nothing that hadn't been done before on it. Robert Christgau compared Eric Clapton's work on the album to Son Seals and Otis Rush, saying that Clapton played better than the former, but sang worse than the latter and felt that "Motherless Child" and "Blues Before Sunrise" were stand-out tracks on the album.

The album won Clapton the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album and he received a further nomination for Album of the Year.

In July 2014, Guitar World placed From the Cradle on their list "Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994".

Track listing

  1. "Blues Before Sunrise" (Leroy Carr) – 2:58 ; this version is inspired also by Elmore James's rendition of the song
  2. "Third Degree" (Eddie Boyd, Willie Dixon) – 5:07
  3. "Reconsider Baby" (Lowell Fulson) – 3:20
  4. "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Dixon) – 3:16 ; originally performed by Muddy Waters
  5. "Five Long Years" (Boyd) – 4:47
  6. "I'm Tore Down" (Sonny Thompson) – 3:02 ; originally performed by Freddie King
  7. "How Long Blues" (Carr) – 3:09
  8. "Goin' Away Baby" (James A. Lane) – 4:00
  9. "Blues Leave Me Alone" (Lane) – 3:36
  10. "Sinner's Prayer" (Lloyd Glenn, Fulson) – 3:20
  11. "Motherless Child" (Robert Hicks) – 2:57
  12. "It Hurts Me Too" (Tampa Red) – 3:17
  13. "Someday After a While" (King, Thompson) – 4:27
  14. "Standin' Round Crying" (McKinley Morganfield) – 3:39
  15. "Driftin'" (Charles Brown, Johnny Moore, Eddie Williams) (Johnny Moore's Three Blazers) – 3:10
  16. "Groaning the Blues" (Dixon) – 6:05 ; originally performed by Otis Rush

Songs

1Blues Before Sunrise2:58
2Third Degree5:09
3Reconsider Baby3:20

References

From the Cradle Wikipedia
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