Eric Clapton

Blues

I'm not complaining about the music...

Review Score:

(6/10)
...but nothing burns me more than when a record company promotes a "new release" by an artist that has 2 new songs and 25 songs that have been previously released. This is very unfair to the fan. I have to spend $30.00 to get a few "previously unreleased performances". It's just picking the fan's pocket.

At any rate, disc 1 is a compilation of blues from Clapton's studio albums with Polydor, and disc 2 is live stuff from the same period (74-82). Most of the live stuff has already been released on Crossroads 2 (which itself was a poorly named and poorly compiled box set). You know there is a ample live stuff in the vault that hasn't yet been released. They could at least throw in some live stuff we don't already have.

I don't understand who this release is aimed at. The casual fan? Doubt if they'll bite on this. The more recent, younger Clapton fan? Will they be interested in recycled stuff from the '70s? Doubt it. Well, that leaves us - the long-time Clapton fans - to buy it because we have to have the few previously unreleased performances.

Well, I've done my duty, but I don't like it.

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