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Eric Clapton - Unplugged (1992) 2CD + DVD Deluxe Edition 2013EAC FLAC Tracks (Cue&Log) 642 Mb Mp3 (CBR320) 232 Mb Time: 01:36:34DVD9 NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR LPCM, 2ch, 1536 kbps / DTS, 1510 kbps 02:07:11 8 GbBlues, Blues Rock, Classic Rock Label: Warner/Reprise # Scans 88 MbEric Clapton was already an acknowledged master of the electric guitar in January 1992 when he traded his signature Stratocaster for an acoustic Martin to record Unplugged. The live album captured the legendary guitarist, backed by a small band, performing acoustic versions of his own songs and several blues standards. Released later that same year, the album was an unqualified blockbuster, selling more than 19 million copies worldwide and earning six Grammy Awards, sweeping the top honors, including Record of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the Year.Reprise Records celebrates Clapton's electrifying acoustic performances with a new 2-CD/DVD collection that includes a remastered version of the original album along with six unreleased outtakes on two CDs. The DVD features a newly restored version of the concert, as well as more than an hour of previously unseen footage from the rehearsal.For the original album s 14 performances, Clapton reinterpreted songs from his rich catalog, including 'Layla' completely reimagined as a shuffle from his time with Derek and the Dominos, 'Running On Faith' and 'Old Love' from 1989 s Journeyman, and the hit single 'Tears In Heaven,' a song he wrote after the passing of his young son Conor the previous year. Much of the album showcases blues songs Clapton grew up listening to, like Bo Diddley s 'Before You Accuse Me,' Big Bill Broonzy s 'Hey Hey,' Leadbelly s 'Alberta' and Robert Johnson s 'Malted Milk.' The second disc includes several songs not on the original album, such as a cover of 'Big Maceo' Merriweather s 'Worried Life Blues,' an alternate take of 'Walkin Blues' and early versions of 'Circus' and 'My Father s Eyes' songs that would surface six years later on Clapton s album Pilgrim.The DVD included in this collection contains a newly restored version of the original broadcast, which aired August 25, 1992 on MTV. For the first time ever, fans will also have the opportunity to see more than an hour of unreleased footage recorded during the pre-show rehearsal.
Filmed from multiple camera angles, it features an intimate look at Clapton and the band working on arrangements and running through 14 songs, including 'Circus' and 'My Father s Eyes,' which were not featured in the final broadcast.Its massive success – it is one of the rare albums to be certified as diamond in the U.S. And it went platinum all over the world; it also won the Album of the Year Grammy for 1992 – makes it difficult to place Eric Clapton's 1992 MTV Unplugged in context, but it's important to do so. It arrived three years into MTV Unplugged's run – 1989 also being the year Clapton stirred artistically with the assured AOR of Journeyman – and a year after Paul McCartney established the practice of an official album release of an Unplugged session with his own Unplugged (The Official Bootleg).
Also in 1991, Clapton's young son Conor died in a tragic accident. The guitarist wrote 'Tears in Heaven' as a tribute to his late son and, via its inclusion on the 1991 soundtrack to Rush, it became a hit single and, later, a centerpiece to the Unplugged set.
The passage of time has blurred the lines separating all these events, suggesting Clapton's 1992 Unplugged was the first-ever MTV album, that it alone was responsible for revitalizing EC's career, that it is was the place where 'Tears in Heaven' premiered, when none of that is quite true. What is true is that Unplugged is the concert and album that established the MTV program as a classy, tony showcase for artists eager to redefine themselves via reexamination of their catalogs, which is what Clapton cannily did here. The album's hit was a slow crawl through Derek & the Dominos' 'Layla,' turning that anguished howl of pain into a cozy shuffle and the whole album proceeds at a similar amiable gait, taking its time and enjoying detours into old blues standards. Clapton is embracing his middle age and the pleasure of Unplugged is to hear him opt out of the pop star game as he plays songs he's always loved.
Tellingly, it's these blues and folk covers – Jesse Fuller's 'San Francisco Bay Blues,' Big Bill Broonzy's 'Hey Hey,' the standard 'Alberta,' Muddy Waters' 'Rollin' and Tumblin',' two songs from Robert Johnson ('Walkin' Blues,' 'Malted Milk') – that are the best performances here; they're alternately lively and relaxed, Clapton happily conforming to the contours of the compositions. These capture a moment in time, when EC was settling into his age by reconnecting with the past, whereas the originals – whether it's the revised versions of 'Layla' and 'Old Love,' 'Tears in Heaven,' or the debut of 'My Father's Eyes,' originally heard here (and on the 2013 expanded anniversary edition) but released as a single much later in the decade – point forward to the sharply tailored adult contemporary crooner of the '90s, one who turned out to be very comfortable existing in a world of high thread counts and designer duds. These are the tunes that belong to the '90s – and several of these also appear on the 2013 expansion, which contains songs that didn't appear on the album, almost all of which are originals apart from an alternate 'Walkin' Blues' and 'Worried Life Blues' – but the rest of MTV Unplugged manages to transcend its time because it does cut to the quick of Clapton's musical DNA. Signe (03:29)02.
Before You Accuse Me (03:59)03. Hey Hey (03:46)04.
Tears In Heaven (04:40)05. Lonely Stranger (05:27)06. Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out (03:55)07. Layla (04:49)08. Running On Faith (06:30)09. Walkin' Blues (03:36)10.
Alberta (03:38)11. San Francisco Bay Blues (03:28)12. Malted Milk (03:37)13. Old Love (07:54)14. Rollin' & Tumblin' (04:08)CD2:01. Circus (04:28)02.
My Father's Eyes (Take 1) (06:22)03. Running On Faith (Take 1) (06:31)04. Walkin' Blues (Take 1) (03:48)05. My Father's Eyes (Take 2) (06:43)06. Worried Life Blues (05:38).
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011EAC extraction logfile from 16. Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011EAC extraction logfile from 16. CloseDVD Content:Original TV Broadcast:01. Before You Accuse Me04.
Tears In Heaven06. Lonely Stranger07. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out08. Running On Faith10.
Walkin' Blues11. San Francisco Bay Blues13. Malted Milk14. Rollin' & TumblinUnplugged Rehearsal:01. Before You Accuse Me03.
Tears In Heaven05. Lonely Stranger07. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out08. My Father's Eyes10.
Running On Faith11. Walkin' Blues12. San Francisco Bay Blues14.