Eric Clapton - Unplugged (1992) - FLAC - 44.1KHZ

Its massive success -- it is one of the rare albums to be certified as diamond in the U.S. and it went platinum all over the world; it also won the Album of the Year Grammy for 1992 -- makes it difficult to place Eric Clapton's 1992 MTV Unplugged in context, but it's important to do so. It arrived three years into MTV Unplugged's run -- 1989 also being the year Clapton stirred artistically with the assured AOR of Journeyman -- and a year after Paul McCartney established the practice of an official album release of an Unplugged session with his own Unplugged (The Official Bootleg).

Also in 1991, Clapton's young son Conor died in a tragic accident. The guitarist wrote "Tears in Heaven" as a tribute to his late son and, via its inclusion on the 1991 soundtrack to Rush, it became a hit single and, later, a centerpiece to the Unplugged set. The passage of time has blurred the lines separating all these events, suggesting Clapton's 1992 Unplugged was the first-ever MTV album, that it alone was responsible for revitalizing EC's career, that it is was the place where "Tears in Heaven" premiered, when none of that is quite true. What is true is that Unplugged is the concert and album that established the MTV program as a classy, tony showcase for artists eager to redefine themselves via reexamination of their catalogs, which is what Clapton cannily did here.

Label: Reprise Records
Originally released 1992
Format: 14 files FLAC, Album,44.1 kHz




1 Signe Eric Clapton
2 Before You Accuse Me Bo Diddley
3 Hey Hey Big Bill Broonzy
4 Tears in Heaven Clapton, Will Jennings
5 Lonely Stranger Clapton
6 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out» Jimmy Cox
7 Layla Clapton, Jim Gordon
8 Running on Faith Jerry Lynn Williams
9 Walkin' Blues Robert Johnson
10 Alberta Tradicional, arr. by Huddie William Ledbetter
11 San Francisco Bay Blues Jesse Fuller
12 Malted Milk Robert Johnson
13 Old Love Clapton, Robert Cray
14 Rollin' and Tumblin' McKinley Morganfield