Eric Clapton’s lifelong passion for the blues burns brightly in Nothing But The Blues. The 2-LP of the soundtrack features 18 previously unreleased live performances recorded in 1994 during the legendary guitarist’s tour supportingFrom The Cradle, his Grammy-winning, multi-platinum blues album. Clapton’s longtime co-producer, Simon Climie, has remixed the audio from those performances from the original multi-tracking recordings.
The previously unreleased live performances on Nothing But the Bluess erve as a vital counterpart to From The Cradle, which was recorded in the studio. While several songs appear on both (“Motherless Child,” “Standing ’Round Crying,” and “I’m Tore Down”), the performances are entirely different. The release also includes songs that did not appear onFrom the Cradle, including Jimmy Rogers’ “Blues All Day Long” and Robert Johnson’s “Malted Milk,” as well as the standards “Every Day I Have The Blues” and “Forty-Four.”
1A
1 Blues All Day Long (Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994)
2 Standin' Round Crying (Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994)
3 Forty-Four (Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994)
4 It Hurts Me Too (Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994)
5 Early in the Morning (Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994)
1B
1 Five Long Years (Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994)
2 Crossroads (Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994)
3 Malted Milk Blues (Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994)
4 Motherless Child (Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994)
5 How Long Blues (Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994)
2A
1 Reconsider Baby (Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994)
2 Sinner's Prayer (Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994)
3 Everyday I Have the Blues (Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994)
4 Someday After a While (Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994)
2B
1 Have You Ever Loved a Woman (Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994)
2 I'm Tore Down (Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994)
3 Groaning the Blues (Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994)
4 County Jail Blues (Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994)