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.
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Saturday, 20 January 2007 04:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 20 January 2007 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hP51lm7dSL8
― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 20 January 2007 06:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 20 January 2007 08:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― lovebug 2.0 (lovebug starski), Saturday, 20 January 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― clemenza, Sunday, 19 October 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
^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.
― sexxx attic (will), Sunday, 19 October 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link
It would be funny to leak that somewhere as a Will Oldham track and then spring it on everyone.
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Sunday, 19 October 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
and like half are those are covers, eg, this one's Don Williams
― sexxx attic (will), Sunday, 19 October 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgAwvBEPPXA
― sexxx attic (will), Sunday, 19 October 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
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
― clemenza, Sunday, 19 October 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
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.).
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 19 October 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
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?
― Moka, Sunday, 19 October 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
It's a radio staple in America.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 19 October 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
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.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 19 October 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
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.
― and in his absence, she (Lee626), Monday, 20 October 2014 05:44 (nine years ago) link
Now I'm hooked on "We're All the Way."
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Monday, 20 October 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link