Clapton's influence

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OK, that has to be my new desktop background. Thank you, Rev. PappaWheelie and Marmot! :D

He's done a lot of different stuff. To which are you comparing said Texan.

My guess is that you heard some Freddie King. Eric Clapton has made a mountain of money playing mid-tempo Freddie King sounding tunes. Beyond the guitar playing, Clapton's singing voice on those type numbers is pretty dead on to Freddie. EC recorded King's "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" on the Layla album.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hP51lm7dSL8

There are Clapton threads on what a horrible old man he's become, and (for some reason) his '90s output, but nothing on the famous-long-ago '70s albums that I can see, some of which I'm hearing for the first time ever (vinyl passed on by a friend). I like this from Slowhand, stuck at the end of a side with popular FM staples I never need to hear again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-P_f_-zkTU

^good tune. there's like 2-3 good-to-great ones on every Clapton record up through Backless iirc. you generally won't hear them on the radio though.

It would be funny to leak that somewhere as a Will Oldham track and then spring it on everyone.

and like half are those are covers, eg, this one's Don Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgAwvBEPPXA

This was my big find from 461 Ocean Boulevard (I posted the Cowboy/Duane Allman original on another thread):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wql_WN7zgc

Looking at the AMG--Didn't know that John Martyn had a songwriting credit on Slowhand. There should be thread for 'unexpected credits on huge albums' (that Gene Clark song the Eagles did etc.).

Whoa that does sound like a Will Oldham song. I love Lay Down Sally but never hear it on the radio, is it a popular tune?

It's a radio staple in America.

Big Top 40 hit: #3 on Billboard in '77, when #3 meant something.*

*(It meant that you supplied the station's programmer with a lot of free blow. But I digress.)

Didn't know that John Martyn had a songwriting credit on Slowhand.

Ahh. Clapton's cover of "May You Never" led me to buy Solid Air which quickly turned me on to John Martyn; within a year I had about eight of his other albumms. So I do have at least one thing to thank Clapton for. The Eagles' cover of "0l' 55" did the same for Tom Waits when I was a teen.

Now I'm hooked on "We're All the Way."