- rock, blues, blues rock, album rock
- 60 min
- 16 tracks
- Reprise Records
From the Cradle is the twelfth solo studio album by Eric Clapton, released on 12 September 1994 by Reprise Records. A blues cover album and Clapton's follow-up to his successful 1992 live album, Unplugged, it is his only UK number-one album to date.
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Grave, character-led, spare and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Chicago Tribune2.5/4 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyB−
- Los Angeles Times3.5/4 ★
- The Music Box3/5 ★
- Music Week3/5 ★
- People(positive)
- The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings3.5/4 ★
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Tracks
- 1Blues Before Sunrise2:58
- 2Third Degree5:09
- 3Reconsider Baby3:20
- 4Hoochie Coochie Man3:16
- 5Five Long Years4:48
- 6I’m Tore Down3:03
- 7How Long Blues3:08
- 8Goin’ Away Baby4:01
- 9Blues Leave Me Alone3:37
- 10Sinner’s Prayer3:21
- 11Motherless Child2:57
- 12It Hurts Me Too3:19
- 13Someday After a While4:28
- 14Standin’ Round Crying3:38
- 15Driftin’3:09
- 16Groaning the Blues6:07
16 tracks, 60 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Eric Clapton
- Label
- Reprise Records
- Released
- 1994
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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