Back Home专辑介绍
唱片将在8月30日发行,这张唱片所有12首歌曲都是在去年制作Me & Mr. Johnson专辑时候录制的. "我想制作一张唱片,并不考虑它会成什么风格主题." Clapton说."它会花费很长时间,对于这个事实我们当时有点听天由命,当我们遇到阻碍或者进展实在太慢,我们就停下来录制一首Robert Johnson的曲子.这样可以让我们换一下思绪,然后我们再回到这张新专辑上来,结果我们就先完成了Robert Jonhnson那张专辑."
Me & Mr. Johnson 在Billboard的布鲁斯专辑榜上获得了冠军的位置,并在Billboard200上获得了第6名,据Nielsen SoundScan统计,在美国的销量达到612000张.而Reptile那张专辑在Billboard200上排名第五,销售了560000张.
这张专辑中,Clapton自己创作了专辑同名歌曲Back Home,他和Climie共同创作了新专辑的5首歌曲,其中包括单曲Revolution.同时专辑包含了一首George Harrison版本的Love Comes To Everyone还有一首The Spinners的 Love Don't Love Nobody以及翻唱了一首Stevie Wonder/Syreeta Wright的歌曲I'm Going Left,以及一首由 Vince Gill创作的One Day.
Climie和Clapton共同制作这张专辑,专辑中还有这些如此让人耳熟能详的乐手,像鼓手Steve Gadd , 贝斯手Nathan East, Pino Palladino,吉他手Bramhall, Andy Fairweather Low以及键盘Billy Preston.
Clapton说,"这张专辑将我作为一个巡回演出音乐人的旅程作了一个总结.现在我自己有了新的家庭,那就是我为什么选择这个名字作为新专辑的名字的原因,应该回家了,应该呆在家里了.虽然,"他补充道:"明年我还将要上路,还将演奏我的音乐."
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Back Home is Eric Clapton in a good mood, filled with upbeat toe-tappers about hearth and home (a young child even puts in a cameo on "So Tired"). Blues-rock ("Lost and Found"), reggae ("Revolution"), and R&B (the Spinners' "Love Don't Love Nobody") mingle comfortably with laid-back pop (George Harrison's "Love Comes to Everyone"). Recorded around the same time as Me and Mr. Johnson, his best selling collection of Robert Johnson songs, Clapton's first recording of (mostly) original material since 2001's Reptile is a combination of solo compositions, covers, and collaborations with writing partner Simon Climie. Backing musicians include John Mayer (guitar), Blind Faith mate Steve Winwood (synthesizer), and longtime associate Billy Preston (keyboards), whose expertise with the Hammond B3 shines brightest on the Vince Gill co-written "One Day". There are no real surprises on Back Home, just Clapton doing what he does best--with an extra sprin! g in his step. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Album Description
Back Home, Eric Clapton's first album of original material in several years, follows this summer's historic and heralded Cream reunion and 2004's gold, Top 10 Me and Mr. Johnson covers disc (and it's audio/video companion, Sessions for Robert J). With Back Home, three-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and 16-time Grammy winner Clapton finds his way home with another modern classic.
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Eric Clapton claimed in the press release for Back Home, his 14th album of original material, that "One of the earliest statements I made about myself was back in the late '80s, with Journeyman. This album completes that cycle in terms of talking about my whole journey as an itinerant musician and where I find myself now, starting a new family. That's why I chose the title. It's about coming home and staying home." With that in mind, it becomes clearer that the studio albums Clapton released during the '90s did indeed follow some sort of thematic logic. 1989's Journeyman did find Clapton regrouping after a muddled '80s, returning to the bluesy arena rock and smooth pop that had been his signature sound as a solo artist. He followed that with 1994's From the Cradle, where he explicitly returned to the roots of his music by recording an album of blues standards. Four years later, he released Pilgrim, a slick album that had Clapton strengthening his collaboration with producer/co-writer Simon Climie (who first worked with EC on his electronica side project T.D.F.). If Pilgrim touched on father issues, 2001's Reptile loosely returned Clapton to his childhood (complete with a smiling boyhood shot of him on the cover) and found the guitarist struggling with a seemingly diverse selection of material, ranking from '50s R&B to James Taylor. After a brief blues detour on 2004's Me and Mr. Johnson, Clapton returns to the sound and feel of Reptile for Back Home, but he doesn't seem to be as tentative or forced as he did there. Instead, he eases comfortably into the domesticity that isn't just the concept for the album, it's reason for being. In fact, the album doesn't need "back" in its title -- ultimately, the album is just about being home (which, if the center photo of Clapton at home with his three young daughters and wife is to be believed, looks alarmingly similar to the set of Thomas the Tank Engine, complete with a painted rainbow shining through the window).
While it's hard to begrudge the 60-year-old guitarist for finding a happy home after all these years, what is puzzling about this calm, comfortable album is that Clapton is equating domestic bliss with a glossy, consciously classy sound that's swept clean of dirt and grit, or even the blues. Consequently, Back Home is pitched halfway between the lite contemporary soul of Pilgrim and Clapton's time as a Michelob spokesman in the late '80s. Each track rides a tight, professional groove -- sometimes a bluesy vamp, sometimes a reggae jam, usually something soulful but relaxed -- and while instruments sometimes bubble up from the mix (sometimes it's Clapton's guitar, but just as often it's Billy Preston's organ, or occasionally a synth straight out of 1987), the emphasis is always on the smooth, shiny surface. Unlike such peers as Bob Dylan, Elton John, and the Rolling Stones who revitalized their recording careers with back-to-basics moves that stripped their music down to its essence, Clapton seems to harbor an aversion to what he built his reputation on, whether it was the lean, sinewy blues of the Yardbirds and Bluesbreakers or the psychedelic freak-outs of Cream, or even the rootsy rock he learned from Delaney & Bonnie in the '70s. Based on Back Home, it really does seem like he considers Journeyman ground zero for his solo career, but instead of replicating the well-balanced mix of rock, pop, and blues that made that record one of his best solo efforts, he settles into a tasteful adult pop sound that makes this record the ideal soundtrack to a pleasant Sunday afternoon at home with the family.
Back Home专辑歌曲
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