Straight Clapton not finding the roots

Review Score: (4/10)
Anyone that records Robert Johnson is setting themselves a task - there's a certain feel to his music that cannot be mucked around with. Here Clapton mostly loses the plot. The cover seems to indicate the album might be another unplugged set which could have been wonderful, but the big bass and drum sound behind a heavily distorted guitar on many tracks just doesn't get to the soul of the music. A couple of songs like Me and the Devil Blues and Last Fair Deal Gone Down come off OK, but all in all this pales alongside the two Johnson albums made by his old associate Peter Green.

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