Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Eric Clapton - "Timepieces: The Best of Eric Clapton"

I bought this album back in high school because it contains "Layla", "Wonderful Tonight" and "Cocaine". Those songs are great, as well as a few others, but this album also has its misses, like "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" done with a calypso beat. It leaves me unsure whether Clapton even knows what the song is about. I liked it enough to buy the guitar tab book for the album and learn several of the songs, although I have neither played them or listened to the album in years. In truth, it's a good album, but the songs just don't really move me and I've got enough other music that I like better that I just don't get around to listening to this one. I did really enjoy hearing "Knocking On Heaven's Door" again, having just heard a very different version of it on Guns & Roses' - "Use Your Illusion 1" album last Friday. You can hear Slowhand [play his best from the 70s at Amazon.

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