Eric Clapton- Journeyman 35th Anniversary

Eric Clapton’s mid-Eighties trifecta of studio albums, starting  in 1985 with Behind the Sun  followed by  August, peaked in November 1989 with  Journeyman.  Thirty-five  years on it has aged remarkably well, a combination of some of Clapton’s strongest  song choices, superb players to support him, and a sympathetic yet discerning producer the likes of which we had not seen since Slowhand.

Confident by then in newly-found sobriety, supported by  veteran producer Russ Titelman and a superb band, Eric Clapton chose arguably his strongest songs to interpret in decades  including his “Bad Love” co-written with Mick Jones; “Old Love” with Robert Cray; a truly swinging cover of Bo Diddley’s “Before You Accuse Me”; and no less than FIVE from the late great Texas songwriter Jerry Lynn Williams including “Pretending”,”Anything for Your Love”,” “Running on Faith”, and “No Alibis”! Eric Clapton joins me here In the Studio  for the thirty-fifth anniversary of Journeyman. -Redbeard