Eric Clapton has been known by most for years now, if he is not a name you are familiar with then today is the day to get to know him. Old “Slow Hand” himself has had more number one hits than many bands have had songs. If we here at the Musiblog did not know any better we would bet the farm that he was born with a guitar in his hand! He came on to the music scene in the early sixties along with the British invasion and he has never stopped putting out hits ever since.
You may know Eric Clapton from any of the many bands he has been part of in his career including: Yardbirds, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, and Derek and the Dominoes. Eric Clapton has also done enough partnership or duet albums to make most people sick. One of my favorites was his “Riding with the King” album he did years ago with the famous blues player B.B. King.
Some have said that Eric Clapton has spent the last 40 years building up to the release of this very album and I would not hesitate to agree. This album takes a lifetime of blues playing, living and loss and puts it into a single album. Clapton takes it back to the basics with this album and plays from the soul. You can feel Robert Johnson’s ghost lurking around as you listen to every deep track on this unbelievable album.
You have never heard a harder driving bass line that you will if you crank this cd up loud. Clapton has outdone himself to an extent with this album I really can’t even describe it, besides “Go Out and Buy This!” Me and Mr. Johnson is a finger styling guitarist dream, if you like the roots of the blues this is THE album that will bridge you from todays music to the very heart of the blues!
Me and Mr. Johson – CD Tracks
1. When You Got A Good Friend
2. Little Queen Of Spades
3. They’re Red Hot
4. Me And The Devil Blues
5. Traveling Riverside Blues
6. Last Fair Deal Gone Down
7. Stop Breakin’ Down Blues
8. Milkcow’s Calf Blues
9. Kind Hearted Woman Blues
10. Come On In My Kitchen
11. If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
12. Love In Vain
13. 32-20 Blues
14. Hell Hound On My Trail.
