[Slowhand] From Eric Clapton to Clapton

[Brian Tronsgaard]

Oh hello again.
First of all, negativity: I was a little disappointed with Uncut magazine using 10 year-old picture for the cover of that very recent big interview. But if they are trying to be clever, I wouldn't know!
Then the positive: I'm still listening to the Clapton album. And I'm really happy to enjoy it. There's been some meek inputs lately, broadsides. I'm sorry that I also lost my mind a little over nothing at wrong targets back in summer and wrote some negative stuff. I looked foolish then. But I am just so pleased with this huge step in the right direction of Eric Clapton's, and totally listen to this thing as an album of a singer and an artist and a musician. Recording is organic, real guitars and mandolins, real pianos, and those incredible singers on That's No Way To Get Along. Much to my surprise one of my favorites is the Milkman. I need some real estate news, man! His phrasing on this is just amazing. And when I heard the Fats Waller version you just gain so much. Clapton trying to copy the fun, too! that I get to hear Eric sing "I went to the factory this morning, where I had worked ten years ago" and "they don't hire any old", that's priceless in my view. Or apparently not, ha ha. And just taking the mandolin for that one, freed up. Some real dark lyrics in River Runs Deep. Great to hear them sing those words. I'm trying to like the strings more. And what the hell has he been doing up in Santa Fe?!? You sure have to come and see for yourself if ya wanna know.There seems to be a line running through the songs here, a theme, still. So care was taken. That was what I was looking for, and got it. So I can't complain no more! But wish they would treat the title and the cover with same thoughtfulness and care. The music deserves it. Maybe they have turned the Pro-Tools on the pictures now instead...

Put together from different sessions by record company:Dylan, 1973.
Put together from different sessions by artist:Clapton, 2010.
Thanks to incredible friends in America - I am in possession of all those four bonus tracks. I Was Fooled, that's some real good blues. And some soul blues singer with a good soundin guitar and friends in the room. Take a Little Walk With Me, the place we long to be. And for some reason those extra tracks blend with the others on Clapton in iTunes in such a way, that Diamonds and Slide Song in A is the last two tracks. In the back there. Nice.
I wonder if Not Dark Yet was recorded in this period, hmm. 
So I'm leaving the country, and now Clapton comes to play in Denmark in June next year. Son of a... But hope I can catch him somewhere around the US west coast.Now, with Clapton he sure talks the talk. But does he walk the walk, too, this time in concert? Why stop here.
Kind regards,Brian Tronsgaard.