Eric Clapton - "Unplugged"

This album is what got me started playing guitar. When I purchased my first guitar back in 1993 I bought the tablature book for this album and started working my way through it. "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" is one of the first songs I ever learned. This album was huge for a reason. It's phenomenal. It's a mix of blues and pop, played acoustically. Some of the songs are strummed chords, like "San Fransisco Bay Blues" (incidentally, my Dad used to play and sing this song with his tenor ukulele when I was a kid), a large number are finger picked, and there's even some slide on the tracks, "Rollin' and Tumblin" and "Running On Fath". Most of the people who purchased this album did so because of the "Tears in Heaven". It's speaks to the quality of the rest of the album that this song almost gets lost amongst the rest of the tracks. I haven't listened to this album in quite a while, and it's been a long time since I've played my way through the songs on it. I really enjoyed listening to it again, and I have a feeling that I'll enjoy playing the songs even more. I need to go grab my guitar. Go take a listen at Amazon.