EricClaptonUnplugged

Eric Clapton Unplugged was released in 1992. It was recorded live at the Bray Film Studios in Windsor England for the MTV Unplugged series and includes acoustic versions of many great Clapton songs including some of the most heartfelt and genuine music Clapton has ever recorded in his amazing career, they include a heavily reworked "Layla", and a tear jerking "Tears in Heaven". Clapton earned three Grammy Awards for "Eric Clapton Unplugged" which included; Album of the Year, Best Rock Male Vocal, and Best Rock Song. He earned another three for the record and song "Tears in Heaven".

Clapton performed the show in front of a small audience on January 16, 1992 at Bray Film Studios in Windsor, England.

In addition to the final album tracks, the performance included early versions of "My Father's Eyes" and "Circus Left Town" along with "Worried Life Blues." Clapton played a Martin 000-42 guitar for much of this performance.

The album went on to become the bestselling Unplugged album in the U.S., with sales of 10 million.

In 2000 Q magazine placed Unplugged at number 71 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums.

The inspiration behind "My Fathers Eyes"

"I never met my father," Mr. Clapton told his biographer in 1985. "And I realized that the closest I ever came to looking into my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes." Clapton's five-year-old son, Conor, plummeted to his death in 1991 from the 53rd floor of the New York City apartment of his mother, Italian model Lori del Santo.

"Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven?" he asked in the tender ballad to his dead son. "Would it be the same if I saw you in heaven?" It is this tragic sense of loss -- of his father and of his son -- that has shaped Clapton's music more than anything else, and that found new expression with the recording of My Father's Eyes.

Tracks on the album;

Signe
Before You Accuse Me
Hey Hey
Tears In Heaven
Lonely Stranger
Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out
Layla
Running On Faith
Walkin' Blues
Alberta
San Francisco Bay Blues
Malted Milk
Old Love
Rollin' & Tumblin'

Playing with Clapton on the unplugged album were; Ray Cooper (percussion), Nathan East (bass guitar/backing vocals), Steve Ferrone (drums), Chuck Leavell (keyboards), Andy Fairweather Low (guitar), Katie Kissoon (backing vocals), Tessa Niles (backing vocals).

In some respects Clapton is more comfortable with the kind of bluesy minimalism the ''Unplugged'' format encourages than with the overblown-by- definition music he has to play in arenas, he does however always include some of the tracks from unplugged in his big shows to tone down and get away from his rock based songs.

Go to Eric Clapton Layla , Eric Clapton Tears In Heaven and Eric Clapton Wonderful Tonight for more great live performances from the legend Eric Clapton..

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