Eric Clapton: Me & Mr. Johnson - 2004
Ten years after From The Cradle, which was an impressive collection of blues covers, Clapton delivers an album full of blues legend/originator Robert Johnson's songs.
If you like the blues and you like Clapton, you are going to like it, it is as simple as that. Boasting a fine sound quality, it ploughs the same chugging, chunky bluesy furrow as From The Cradle.
All the tracks are good, but highlights are Little Queen Of Spades, Me And The Devil Blues, When You Got A Good Friend, Travelling Riverside Blues and the Stones-covered Love In Vain.
It is not all solid blues either, They're Red Hot is a catchy piece of jaunty fun, as indeed is 32-20 Blues. You can't beat these albums where Eric plays the blues, despite all the AOR stuff, I feel that this is where he is happiest.