Journeyman

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Product Details

Artist : Eric Clapton
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0075992607421
Label : Reprise
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1989-11-06
UPC : 075992607421

ASIN : B000002LJW

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Pretending
2. Anything for Your Love
3. Bad Love
4. Running on Faith
5. Hard Times
6. Hound Dog
7. No Alibis
8. Run So Far
9. Old Love
10. Breaking Point
11. Lead Me On
12. Before You Accuse Me (Take a Look at Yourself)

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Editorial Reviews

From Amazon.com

Released immediately following the elaborate Crossroads box set, Journeyman is EC's way of feigning humility while cranking out the blues for his attentive audience. Featuring the help of famous sidemen George Harrison, Phil Collins, Robert Cray, Chaka Khan, and David Sanborn, Journeyman is less a superstar romp than a moderate collection of songs tastefully produced and economically performed. Flashes of Clapton's lead work burst through while his singing remains modest. The cover of "Before You Accuse Me" is heartfelt and while Clapton may at this point be incapable of delivering the down and dirty power of jukejoint blues, he still manages to find a little bit o' soul among the pickings. --Rob O'Connor

Chronique amazon.fr

Sorti immédiatement après Crossroads, Journeyman est la façon qu'a Eric Clapton de feindre l'humilité en faisant sonner son blues pour un public particulièrement attentif. Malgré des invités de marque comme George Harrison, Phil Collins, Robert Cray, Chaka Khan et David Sandborn, Journeyman tient plus de la sélection de chansons produites avec goût et jouées avec économie que de l'étalage de superstars. Les solos de guitare de Clapton explosent alors que sa voix reste effacée. La reprise de "Before You Accuse Me" vient du coeur. Même s'il ne pouvait pas alors livrer la puissance brute du blues, il parvient à mettre quelques touches de bonne soul. --Rob O'Connor

Customer Reviews

I dont understand why more people dont like this album (2004-03-21)

I know this isnt Slowhand or From The Cradle but Journeyman is a really good album. None of the songs are really bad so I dont see why anyone could not like it. Journeyman is the best Eric Clapton album of the 1980's. Its not a very forceful album, its more laid back but its still great.

The album starts of with one of its best songs 'Pretending' this song sounds like an old blues through back and it has an amzing guitar solo, as always. 'Bad Love' is the biggest hit off the album and the best song on the album too. 'Bad Love' is one of Eric Claptons best songs, once you get past the keyboards. 'Hound Dog' is a great cover, but not one of his better covers. 'No Alibies' is another great song and probly the second best on Journeyman and the solo is just plan amazing! The album ends with 'Before You Accuse Me' and its a cover song and a great way to end the album. 'Before You Accuse Me' is one of the best cover songs Eric Clapton ever recorded.

Journeyman may not be as good a From The Cradle and it may not be his most powerful album but this is certainly one of his better albums, this may even be better then slowhand now that I think about it....

An ass-kicking Journeyman! (2004-03-04)

JOURNEYMAN is the follow-up to 1986's AUGUST. As the 1980's neared the end,PRETENDING was on hit parade and played on rock stations worldwide. This album was released in the fall of 1989. Guest artists include Phil Collins and the late great George Harrison. Harrison wrote RUN SO FAR and sang background vocals. Other great tracks are NO ALIBIS and other hits BEFORE YOU ACCUSE ME,BAD LOVE and RUNNING ON FAITH. HARD TIMES is bluesy. In fact that style of music influenced Eric Clapton. OLD LOVE,along with RUNNING ON FAITH and BEFORE YOU ACCUSE ME have been used for the live follow-up UNPLUGGED. HOUND DOG has slightly different lyrics. It doesn't sound like the version recorded by the late great Elvis Presley. All the other songs are good. Hey,I love the lyric,"You say I'm spending my money on other women and taking money from someone else."!

Classis... while the author is alive! (2004-01-25)

The music on this CD is of tramendous both musical and sound quality. Every time I listen to "Journeyman", I want more of comparable quality, and that is hard to find!

before you accuse me (2003-07-27)

Clapton's abilities as a studio musician shine here, but the album dates itself with 80's clap-track (Anything for Your Love) and the sounds of solid state amplifiers. Old Love, Pretending, No Alibis, Bad Love and Before you Accuse Me are all cult favorites for Clapton fans. Lets face it, 461 Ocean Boulevard is his weakest album and it's still awesome. This album rates better in my book, but not his best effort. Too much doo-wop girls and over-production, which again shows its ugly head on the albums Pilgrim and Reptile. Still, Clapton can write and play and somehow manage to put out a good album, regardless of your recording tastes.

Good material, bad production (2003-06-07)

I have given this album three stars, partly because of the slick, glossy 80s production by Russ Titelman which has completely removed any hint of real grit from these songs. They might as well have been played using synthesizers (actually most of the drums aren't drums but a digital drum machine).

The songs themselves are generally pretty good, though. They are not as lean, nor as muscular, as they could have been, but "Pretending" is a fine, mid-tempo rocker with some really great vocals by Eric Clapton. "Bad Love" suffers from terrible, overblown production and weird synthesizers, but it's not a bad song, and "Running On Faith" is a slow, bluesy ballad with relative lean instrumentation and some nice slide dobro playing.

"Hard Times" is another slow blues, augumented by a horn ensemble, and Clapton actually does a pretty good, funky rendition of "Hound Dog"."Run So Far" is a little masterpiece, written by George Harrison, who lends a hand playing guitar and singing harmony vocals. Nice, sparse arrangement there.

Clapton wrote "Old Love" with Robert Cray, and it works pretty well, too, without too much of the wall-of-sound treatment which has partly ruined "No Alibis", "Breaking Point" and "Anything For Your Love". And the album ends on a high note with some real, three-dimentional drumming from Steve Ferrone and Jim Keltner on the fine ballad "Lead Me On" and Bo Diddley's fiery blues classic "Before You Accuse Me" (albeit in a slick, less fiery version).

All in all, "Journeyman" is a good album. It could've been great, if a few more songs had been good instead of merely adequate, and if the production had resembled his 70s albums a bit more, but it is not one to be avoided by any means.

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