Pilgrim

Eric Clapton

SKU: 8122796338

Barcode: 081227963385

30.00 £30.00
  • Genre: Rock And Pop
  • Label: Rhino
  • Released Date: 21st December 2013
  • Buying Format:
    180g 2LP

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Released in 1998 Pilgrim was Eric’s thirteenth studio album, achieving top 10 status in over ten countries worldwide and going Platinum in the US and Norway. The single “My Father’s Eyes” went on to win Eric a Grammy award for ‘Best Male Pop Vocal Performance’.

Since donning an Armani suit back in the decadent ’80s, Eric Clapton’s music had become more polished as he’d gotten older. Despite recording the all-blues FROM THE CRADLE collection in 1994, E.C. had either gone unplugged, collaborated with silky-smooth soulsters such as Babyface, or dabbled with current electronic trends.

PILGRIM finds Slowhand doing all of the above on what was his first album of original material in nearly a decade. Unlike many older artists dipping their toes into the electronic pool, Clapton and co-producer Simon Climie’s restrained use of programming gilds rather than overwhelms these original numbers.

In a welcome turn, Clapton wrote or co-wrote every song with the exception of Bob Dylan’s “Born In Time” and “Going Down Slow”, a St. Louis Jimmy blues nugget. Joined by Babyface on the former, Clapton gives both songs a lite-jazz treatment that meshes well with a burnished vocal style that sounds as if he’s been listening to Curtis Mayfield recently. Complementing Clapton’s emotive vocalising is his always formidable guitar playing. Whether he politely funks it up on “She’s Gone” or indulges his blues jones on the slow shuffle of “Sick And Tired”, Eric Clapton’s musical development continues to be a steady pilgrimage into the new millenium.

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Track Listings

Side 1
1. My Father’s Eyes
2. River Of Tears
3. Pilgrim

Side 2
1. Broken Hearted
2. One Chance
3. Circus

Side 3
1. Going Down Slow
2. Fall Like Rain
3. Born In Time
4. Sick And Tired

Side 4
1. Needs His Woman
2. She’s Gone (Album Bonus Version)
3. You Were There
4. Inside of Me

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