Yep, & wiith a good deal more technical skill it has to be said - although JJ Cale does show that simple can be just as good.
I know what you mean, although I recently watched the Cream reunion concert and thought Clapton was peerless. I much prefer him when he plays rock based, rather than blues based, stuff.
thanks for posting as I'd entirely forgotten this track. In the "you learn something every day" dept, JJ used a drum machine on this track, it was an Ace Tone, a company that later emerged to be called Roland.
I don't dislike the JJ Cale version but imho the Lynyrd Skynyrd version is better. Maybe it is something to do with the fact it was live, I don't know; there may also be a bit of personal bias in there, but I'm happy to agree to disagree.
I was going to say maybe not, but the track I was thinking of is actually on the 24 Nights: Rock album rather than 24 Nights: Blues album. Anything written with Robert Cray I would tend to think of as blues rather than rock. This one still sounds more bluesy than rock to me, but I think we can agree that if he sticks at it he might make something of himself...
He-he-he - we could launch into some heated NME like pedantic debate on whether rock is only a child of the blues anyway, plus is it bluesy rock or rocky blues? And we could go further and say Cream was jazz influenced bluesy rock, but it's when Clapton gets really stuck into the old acoustic Robert Johnson et al blues style/influence that I can quite easily start looking at the Sunday crossword.... it all gets way too technical and over my head. But hey ho, the only real answer is - if it floats your boat then it's good. Like this one:
you are not a true Eric Clapton anorak until you've been invited to a private "gig" in Surrey after quaffing a few pints at The Half Moon in Ripley. Im not one either but did mix with above crowd on two occasions so i will take any medals going Serious question that's just occurred to me - You would have to be 70+ years of age, but anyone reading this who frequented Eel Pie island in Twickenham in the 60's? ..Envy is nowhere even close!
I don’t think we could because I think we’d be of a similar mind and because we’re better than that. As you say, if you like it then it’s good, if it doesn’t float your boat find something that does.
Seeing Warren Haynes there reminded me of this one that he wrote and which I'm rather fond of. Couple of versions, one with orchestra & Jade MacRae, one without; or one smoothed out, one still a bit raw. Take your pick.
Saw Ray Phillips play his final public appearance at Chepstow Castle last week. He took the drums one last time at 76 years old to play with Florence Black on their cover of Breadfan. Awesome. Andy
