Eric Clapton - Money And Cigarettes (1983) (vinyl Lp) - €10,00

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"Money and Cigarettes" is the eighth solo studio album by Eric Clapton, recorded after his first rehabilitation from alcoholism. 

Produced by Clapton and Tom Dowd with, apart from Albert Lee, a new backing band of veteran session musicians including Donald "Duck" Dunn, Roger Hawkins, and Ry Cooder. The album was moderately successful commercially, reaching Top 20 chart positions in several countries.

Money and Cigarettes marked several important turning points in Eric Clapton's recording career. It was his debut release on his own Duck imprint within Warner Bros.' Reprise Records subsidiary. 

It was also the first album he made after coming to terms with his drinking problem by giving up alcohol. 

Newly focused and having written a batch of new songs, he became dissatisfied with his longtime band and fired them, with the exception of second guitarist Albert Lee. 

In their place, he hired session pros like Stax Records veteran bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn and Muscle Shoals drummer Roger Hawkins, also bringing in guest guitarist Ry Cooder. His new songs reflected on his changed condition, with "Ain't Going Down," a thinly veiled musical rewrite of the Jimi Hendrix arrangement of "All Along the Watchtower," serving as a statement of purpose that declared, "I've still got something left to say." 

"The Shape You're In" was a criticism of his wife for her alcoholism that concluded, "I'm just telling you baby 'cause I've been there myself," while the lengthy acoustic ballad "Pretty Girl" and "Man in Love" reaffirmed his feelings for her. 

The album's single was the relatively slight pop tune "I've Got a Rock n' Roll Heart," but Clapton's many blues fans must have been most pleased with the covers of Sleepy John Estes' "Everybody Oughta Make a Change" (significantly placed as the album's leadoff track), Albert King's "Crosscut Saw," and Johnny Otis' "Crazy Country Hop." 

For all the changes and the high-powered sidemen, though, Money and Cigarettes ended up being just an average effort from Clapton, which his audience seems to have sensed since, despite the Top 20 placement for the single, it became his first album in more than six years to miss the Top Ten and fail to go gold.

Side one

1.  Everybody Oughta Make A Change - 3:16

2.  The Shape You’re In - 4:08

3.  Ain’t Going Down - 4:01

4.  I’ve Got A Rock N’ Roll Heart - 3:13

5.  Man Overboard - 3:45

Side two

1.  Pretty Girl - 5:29

2.  Man In Love - 2:46

3.  Crosscut Saw - 3:30

4.  Slow Down Linda - 4:14

5.  Crazy Country Hop - 2:46

Personnel

• Eric Clapton – lead vocals, electric guitar, slide guitar
• Albert Lee – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
• Ry Cooder – electric guitar, slide guitar
• Peter Solley – Hammond organ
• Donald Dunn – bass guitar
• Roger Hawkins – drums
• Chuck Kirkpatrick – backing vocals
• John Sambataro – backing vocals

Production

• Producers – Tom Dowd and Eric Clapton
• Engineers – Tom Dowd and Michael Carnavale
• Assistant Engineer – Dennis Halliburton
• Mastered by Mike Fuller at Criteria Studios (Miami, FL).
• Art Direction – El & Nel Ink., Graham Hughes
• Photography – Graham Hughes
• Design – El & Nel Ink., Ian Murray
• Model Maker – Laurie Savage
• Typography and Design – Ian Murray Acrobat Design

Companies, etc.

• Produced For – Tom Dowd Productions Inc.
• Recorded At – Compass Point Studios
• Mastered At – Criteria Recording Studios
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Copyright © – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Published By – Northern Music Co.
• Published By – E.C. Music
• Published By – WB Music Corp.
• Published By – Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.
• Published By – Diamond Mine Music
• Published By – Face The Music (2)
• Published By – East/Memphis Music Corp.
• Published By – Eldorado Music
• Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Carrollton, GA
• Manufactured By – Columbia House

Notes

Release: 1983

Format:  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Blues rock

Label:  Duck Records

Catalog#  923773-1

Vinyl:  Goed  (Excellent)

Cover:  Goed (Excellent)

Prijs: €10,00