Product Description
Release Date June 24th
Eric Clapton’s lifelong passion for the blues burns brightly in Nothing But The Blues. The soundtrack features previously unreleased live performances recorded in 1994 during the legendary guitarist’s tour supporting From The Cradle, his Grammy-winning, multi-platinum blues album. Clapton’s longtime co-producer, Simon Climie, has remixed the audio from those performances from the original multi-tracking recordings.
The previously unreleased live performances on Nothing But the Blues serve as a vital counterpart to From The Cradle, which was recorded in the studio. While several songs appear on both (“Motherless Child,” “Standing ’Round Crying,” and “I’m Tore Down”), the performances are entirely different. The release also includes songs that did not appear on From the Cradle, including Jimmy Rogers’ “Blues All Day Long” and Robert Johnson’s “Malted Milk,” as well as the standards “Every Day I Have The Blues” and “Forty-Four.”
The film – which was broadcasted once in the U.S. on PBS in 1995 and nominated for an Emmy® Award – has been upgraded to 4K for its long-awaited official release. Written and produced by Scooter Weintraub and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, the documentary includes an in-depth interview with Clapton conducted by Scorsese. Throughout the interview, Clapton discusses his love for the blues and the profound impact bluesmen like Muddy Waters and B.B. King had on his music. Many of those artists (Robert Johnson, Howlin’ Wolf, Buddy Guy, T-Bone Walker) appear in the film through vintage performances, interviews, and photographs. The film also features 20 previously unreleased live performances recorded in 1994 during the legendary guitarist’s tour supporting From The Cradle, his Grammy-winning, multi-platinum blues album.
Track Listing:
- “Blues All Day Long”
- “Standing ’Round Crying”
- “Forty-Four”
- “It Hurts Me Too”
- “Early In The Morning”
- “Five Long Years”
- “Crossroads”
- “Malted Milk”
- “Motherless Child”
- “How Long”
- “Reconsider Baby”
- “Sinners Prayer”
- “Every Day I Have The Blues”
- “Someday After A While (You’ll Be Sorry)”
- “Have You Ever Loved A Woman”
- “I’m Tore Down”
- “Groaning Blues”
- “Country Jail Blues” (exclusive to 2LP vinyl)
Additional DVD & Bluray Content:
19) “T’Ain’t Nobody’s Bizness”
20) “Driftin” (Bonus Track)
The Super Deluxe Edition comes with the documentary on Blu-ray, the soundtrack on both 2-LP vinyl and CD, a bonus CD with four extra tracks “Driftin’,” County Jail Blues,” “Kid Man Blues,” and “It’s Too Bad,” and an exclusive hardcover book with memorabilia, including a numbered lithograph, 12×24 poster, Clapton guitar string set, custom guitar picks, and an exclusive bandana.
