Eric Clapton & J.J. CaleBest Eric Clapton & J.J. Cale Albums Ranked
7.6
Avg Score
14
Opinions
18
Albums
3
Reviewers
Summary from 14 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Eric Clapton & J.J. Cale's catalog across 18 albums from 14 opinions, with an overall average of 7.6/10. The top-rated Eric Clapton & J.J. Cale album is 461 Ocean Boulevard (1974) with a 8.7/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Journeyman and Blues. The discography on Wavelength spans 1974 to 2021.
Me and Mr. Johnson
“Of the many reasons why middle-class white boys such as Eric Clapton and Aerosmith flocked to the music of older, impoverished black men in the 1960s and early 1970s, here is one of the best: The great bluesmen were also great pop songwriters. Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon and Mississippi Fred McDowell, to name just three, […]”
Blues
“Eric Clapton’s relationship to the blues is so long-standing that it resists summary. But the release of this smartly assembled two-disc set makes it possible to say that with three purchases — Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton (1966) and From the Cradle (1994) being the other two — a credible overview is now easily attainable. […]”
Journeyman
“After Crossroads, the twenty-five-year retrospective whose very title conveyed the importance of Eric Clapton's achievement, there's something disconcertingly modest about the title of his new album. A journeyman, after all, is hardly the most glamorous of workers. Yet there's a sly sense of pride lurking beneath this title; the journeyman may only be a hired gun, but he knows he's a damned good s”
I Still Do
“The guitar hero covers Dylan, Robert Johnson and more with Hall of Fame producer Glyn Johns”
Reptile
“In the mid-Sixties, worried that the Yardbirds were pandering to the burgeoning Liverpool sound, Eric Clapton bolted the band to join John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. Since then, that dichotomy has marked his career — through most of the Nineties, Clapton alternated suave pop fare like Unplugged (1992) and Pilgrim (1998) with tougher, more blues-oriented outings like […]”
Old Sock
“Eric Clapton's 21st century output has been erratic, but his best efforts have come from root-tending: his latter-day B.B. King collaboration Riding With The King, the mid-00's Cream reunion and Robert Johnson tribute, the late '00s tour with Blind Faith kin Steve Winwood, the 2014 J.J. Cale homage. Clapton's latest follows suit: a revival meeting with classic rock swami Glyn Johns, producer of hi”
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