Eric ClaptonBest Eric Clapton Albums Ranked

Crossroads 2: Live In the Seventies

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10

“No rock & roll musician has deserved deification more and desired it less than Eric Clapton. The white-blues zealots who scrawled Clapton is god in the London subways during his 1965-66 tenure with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers no doubt thought they were paying the twenty-year-old guitarist their highest compliment. Instead, they sentenced him to a lifetime […]”

Clapton

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8.0

“Eric Clapton basically makes two kinds of solo albums. There are his escapes from the strict letter and law of electric blues: the brisk white soul of 1970’s Eric Clapton; the cruising-speed funk and reggae on 1974’s 461 Ocean Boulevard; the 1992 smash Unplugged. Then there are the homecomings, like 2000’s Riding With the King, […]”

Pilgrim

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8.0

“Much of Eric Clapton’s haunting new album is informed by the smooth R&B textures of his 1996 collaboration with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, "Change the World." Yet Pilgrim is the work of someone who has learned in the hardest way imaginable that although he cannot change the world, he might be able to change himself. On […]”

Another Ticket

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8.0

“It seems as if Eric Clapton’s entire solo career has been an exercise in humility — as if he can’t forgive himself for all those overindulgent psychedelic jams of the past, the Clapton is god superstardom, the self-destructive lifestyle. But despite the near-ascetic modesty and earnest commercial meticulousness of his solo LPs, the same huge […]”

Money and Cigarettes

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7.0

“Just as 1974’s 461 Ocean Boulevard marked a confident return from the drug-aggravated funk that followed Layla, Eric Clapton’s first album for Warner Bros. is an unexpected show of renewed strength after a debilitating illness and too many sleepy records. Stylistically, Money and Cigarettes is no great leap forward from such recent Clapton blues-pop snoozers […]”

Back Home

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6.0

“As this title to Eric Clapton’s new album has it, the guitar giant has now returned back home from his recent meetings at the crossroads with Robert Johnson (Me and Mr. Johnson, Sessions for Robert J) — and the new album is a far more restrained, tasteful and slickly produced environment. Shaking hellhounds off your […]”