Slowhand

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Total Tracks: 9   Total Length: 39:14

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Wonderful Tonight

Choc

This song was written by the great Rusty Weir...many believe he was the best saloon singer in the state of Texas, and he was. We lost him to liver cancer a couple of years ago at age 65. Rusty lived around Austin, but his home was Texas. He could make Billy Bob's, Ft. Worth literally shake and played to sell out crowds wherever he went, was better than most in Nashville, yet never got out of Texas. Likewise, he never paid off a studio, producer, or DJ.. Someone should build a statue of his right hand with index finger extended...captioned with "One more time!!!", for Sheryl Doreen, My Rodeo Queen poured in them britches....Lawd they tight!.

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Guitar Hero.

WilliamLaSalle

When anyone mentions The Best Guitar Heros of all time, we all think of Eric Clapton.

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Shame!

Déh

Its a shame all good albuns we cant download in Brazil!

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After the guest-star-drenched No Reason to Cry failed to make much of an impact commercially, Eric Clapton returned to using his own band for Slowhand. The difference is substantial — where No Reason to Cry struggled hard to find the right tone, Slowhand opens with the relaxed, bluesy shuffle of J.J. Cale’s “Cocaine” and sustains it throughout the course of the album. Alternating between straight blues (“Mean Old Frisco”), country (“Lay Down Sally”), mainstream rock (“Cocaine,” “The Core”), and pop (“Wonderful Tonight”), Slowhand doesn’t sound schizophrenic because of the band’s grasp of the material. This is laid-back virtuosity — although Clapton and his band are never flashy, their playing is masterful and assured. That assurance and the album’s eclectic material make Slowhand rank with 461 Ocean Boulevard as Eric Clapton’s best albums. – Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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