The Eric Clapton album by album thread

I too was at MSG. Drove 408 miles to New York to see it. Had a blast. Don't forget that the Crossroads Guitar Festival was a fund raiser for his Croosroads Treatment Centre. Their was a great mix of great guitarist that cut across different styles and genres. Nice think about the CD and DVD is that you can skip over the artists and/or performances you don't care for.

Not really a fan of John Mayer and especially Keith Urban. But at the show I was blown away by their version of Don't Let Me Down. It blew the roof off.

Gregg Allman singing The Needle And The Damage Done with Warren Hayes and Derek Trucks was very poignant.

 

It came in a mini book like case and had You Better Watch Yourself as a bonus track. I bought it used at Princeton Record Exchange but I think it was available originally from his website.

 

Posting Old Sock shortly........

2013: Old Sock
2014: The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale
2015: Slowhand at 70 – Live at the Royal Albert Hall
2016: Crossroads Revisited: Selections from the Crossroads Guitar Festivals
2016: I Still Do
2016: Live in San Diego

 

Old Sock (2013)




Producers – Doyle Bramhall II, Eric Clapton, Simon Climie and Justin Stanley.
Recorded by Simon Climie, Alan Douglas, Steve Price and Justin Stanley.

1."Further on Down the Road" (featuring Taj Mahal) (Taj Mahal, Jesse E. Davis)
2."Angel" (featuring J.J. Cale) (Cale)
3."The Folks Who Live on the Hill" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern)
4."Gotta Get Over" (featuring Chaka Khan) (Doyle Bramhall II, Justin Stanley, Nikka Costa)
5."Till Your Well Runs Dry" (Peter Tosh)
6."All of Me" (Featuring Paul McCartney) (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons)
7."Born to Lose" (Ted Daffan)
8."Still Got the Blues" (featuring Steve Winwood) (Gary Moore)
9."Goodnight Irene" (Huddie Ledbetter, John A. Lomax, Sr.)
10."Your One and Only Man" (Otis Redding)
11."Every Little Thing" (Doyle Bramhall II, Justin Stanley, Nikka Costa)
12."Our Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
13."No Sympathy" (Bonus Track) (Tosh)

Eric Clapton – vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar, dobro, mandolin
Doyle Bramhall II – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, mandolin, backing vocals
J.J. Cale – guitar and vocals on "Angel"
Greg Leisz – pedal steel, mandolin
Taj Mahal – harmonica and banjo on "Further on Down the Road"
Willie Weeks – bass guitar, upright bass
Paul McCartney – upright bass and vocals on "All of Me"
Matt Chamberlain – drums
Steve Gadd – drums
Jim Keltner – drums
Abe Laboriel Jr – drums
Henry Spinetti – drums
Simon Climie – percussion, piano
Justin Stanley – clavinet, mellotron, drums
Walt Richmond – upright piano, keyboards
Chris Stainton – clavinet, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Hammond B3 organ
Steve Winwood – Hammond B3 organ on "Still Got the Blues"
Tim Carmon – Hammond B3 organ, chord organ
Matt Rollings – keyboards
Frank Marocco – accordion
Gabe Witcher – fiddle
Stephen "Doc" Kupka – baritone saxophone
Joseph Sublett – tenor saxophone
Nicholas Lane – trombone
Sal Cracchiolo – trumpet
Sharon White – backing vocals
Michelle John – backing vocals
Chaka Khan – guest vocals on "Gotta Get Over"
Julie Clapton – guest vocals
Ella Clapton – guest vocals
Sophie Clapton – guest vocals
Nikka Costa – guest vocals
Wendy Moten – guest vocals
Lisa Vaughan – guest vocals
Nick Ingman – string arrangements and conductor
Isobel Griffiths – strings contractor
Perry Montague-Mason – strings leader
Thomas Bowes – strings leader

 

I don't know of this track, where was it a bonus track as my cd is only 12 tracks/53:49 long?

13."No Sympathy" (Bonus Track) (Tosh)

 

This release is fine by me. It beats stuff like Back Home and Reptile, imo. But the name "Old Sock" and the album artwork I can do without.

 

This track was part of a Limited Deluxe Edition.

Limited Deluxe Edition Of Old Sock With Bonus Track

I used to try to obtain everything version and every song that I could, but they really started to abuse the "Limited Edition Only Bonus Track" approach, and I was tired of that game by the time this came out.

Today was the first day I heard No Sympathy.

 

A lovely pleasant feelgood album!

 

As sunny an album that one could ask for. Makes me feel warm. A lot of reggae type songs throughout starting with the opening track which has nice harp playing by Taj Mahal. A little more JJ with Angel, never too much JJ Cale. Gotta Get Over is a great rocker. Eric sings and plays masterfully. In an alternative universe, Your One And Only Man, the Otis Redding song done by EC is a big hit. Another winner.

 

I never knew he covered Gary Moore. Quite a different approach than the original version though.

 

I started listening to this earlier before I had to come out and was enjoying it. Will play the rest tomorrow. Still Got The Blues was the big selling point for me upon release.

Finding I'm enjoying these late era studio albums (even with Climie being involved again.) I could however do without the endless live albums.

 

Only listened to "Old Sock" a couple of times and not familiar with "Crossroads" so I'll try and put some time in over the next couple of days.

 

As album titles go this is very poor but as an album it seems to work. I do like these late era releases. Agreed on the Back Home and Reptile. I did enjoy going back and listening to those but now almost upto date and can see, where EC chooses to do so, him releasing more albums like this.

 

The album title came about when Eric called up David Bowie to tell him that he loved the song Where Are We Now. Bowie affectionately told Eric that he was an Old Sock which Eric liked and then asked David if he didn't mind if he used it as his album title.

 

That kind of makes it okay again I think, in my eyes at least. Nice.

 

The song Every Little Thing with his three daughters singing the chorus makes me smile.

 

"Old Sock" seems like a loose extension of "Clapton." Some of it works, and it seems appropriate. Not the most inspiring, substantive album, but at this point in time and at this stage in his life, it is hard to imagine that EC is going to produce another bona fide classic. Still Got The Blues, Your One And Only Man, and Our Love Is Here To Stay are tracks that I revisit from time to time, but as a whole, it is not an album I play often.

 

WTF is Climie doing there again ?! Maybe a leftover from a previous session. Let's hope so.
All in all not a bad album, although it's not one I play. Maybe it all sounds a bit too cheerful, some tracks too uptempo. Born to lose doesn't really belong. Peter Tosh track is rather weak. Don't really like the Gary Moore cover. Best segment: Goodnight Irene/Your one and only/Every little thing. But the Gershwins song is like watching paint dry.
Is this really the best we can expect from Clapton these days ? It's definitely better than a bunch of his previous studio efforts but it's not really an album I pull out when I wanna hear some Clapton.

 

It does make me think of Dylan, these later albums. Definitely a similar territory although with Dylan I prefer when he writes his own material to the Sinatra covers.

 

I didn't bother with Old Sock when it appeared. Must check it out.

 

Exactly. There's the same retro-feel to some of the songs.

 

Not an album we included here, but an interesting release, I figured. Except of course for those who paid a bundle for the Rhino Handmade release...
On Tour With Eric Clapton: Amazon.co.uk: Music

 

Yeah. For me it doesn't work. The track with his kids on is awful and twee. I thought there were a couple of ok things but its a bit of a duff one to me. Sorry.