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Friday, May 29, 2020

Eric Clapton-Just One Night (1980)

At the end of the 70's Eric Clapton was living an artistic moment with some stability, both personal, commercial and popularity, he had published in recent years several successful works such as "Slowhand" (1977) and "Backless" (1978).
At the beginning of the eighties, the double live album entitled "Just One Night" was published, recorded entirely at the Budokan in Tokyo, a year earlier during the Backless tour, and with the particularity of using as a support band a different line-up than the one that would record the mentioned album.
For this tour, he would have Albert Lee as second guitar, Henry Spinetti as drums, Dave Markee on bass and Chris Stainton as keyboard player.
The repertoire contained their own songs and versions such as the traditional blues "Early In The Morning" or "Rambling On My Mind", some of their most recent hits such as "Cocaine", "Tulsa Time", "Wonderful Tonight" or "Lay Down Sally", and rock and blues classics such as "Further On Up The Road" or "Blues Power".
It was found that Clapton did not want to continue living on the legacy of his former bands from the past such as Cream, Blind Faith or Derek And The Dominos by not including any of their legendary songs in this live.
An album where the magic of Clapton's guitar continues to amaze, but which nevertheless suffers from the incendiary and passionate spark that it once transmitted.
Even so the album reaped enormous success in the British and North American charts reaching the top positions during 1980.

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