·"Five Live" - The Yardbirds

The Yardbirds are an English rock band that had a string of hits in the mid 1960s, including "For Your Love", "Over, Under, Sideways, Down" and "Heart Full of Soul". The group is notable for having started the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page, all of whom were in the top fifteen of Rolling Stone's 100 Top Guitarists list (Clapton as #4, Page as #9, and Beck as #14). A blues-based band that broadened its range into pop and rock, The Yardbirds were pioneers in the guitar innovation of the '60s: fuzz tone, feedback, distortion, backwards echo, improved amplification, etc. The band's disintegration led to the formation of the rock band Led Zeppelin, by Jimmy Page in 1968. Originally named the Metropolitan Blues Quartet in 1962–63, the band formed in the London suburbs, out of the Kingston Art School, first performing as a backup band for Cyril Davies, and achieved notice on the burgeoning British rhythm and blues scene in September 1963 when they took over as the house band at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, succeeding the Rolling Stones. They drew their repertoire from the Chicago blues of Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Sonny Boy Williamson II and Elmore James. Original lead guitarist (Anthony) Top Topham left and was replaced by Eric Clapton in October 1963. Crawdaddy Club impresario Giorgio Gomelsky became the Yardbirds' manager and first record producer. Under Gomelsky's guidance the Yardbirds signed to EMI's Columbia label in February 1964. Their first album was "live", Five Live Yardbirds, recorded at the legendary Marquee Club in London. Blues legend Sonny Boy Williamson II invited the group to tour England and Germany with him, a union that later engendered another live album. The quintet cut two singles, "I Wish You Would" and "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl", before their third, "For Your Love", a Graham Gouldman composition, gave them their first major hit. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Clapton, at the time a blues purist, left the group in protest to join John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Anyway Clapton recommended Jimmy Page, a prominent young studio session guitarist, as his replacement. Page, uncertain about giving up his lucrative studio work and worried about his health, recommended in turn his friend Jeff Beck. Beck played his first gig with the Yardbirds only two days after Clapton's departure in May 1965. Five Live Yardbirds was remastered and expanded, though this featured here is the original version.





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01- Too Much Monkey Business
02- Got Love If You Want It
03- Smokestack Lightning
04- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
05- Respectable
06- Five Long Years
07- Pretty Girl
08- Louise
09- I'm a Man
10- Here 'Tis

·"From The Cradle" - Eric Clapton

This is what Eric Clapton is all about. He loves the blues, he lived the blues, he is a blues man. When you hear him growl in "Groaning the Blues", that's Eric practically ripping out his larynx singing the blues to its low-down-and-dirtiest. Eric keeps the blues's integrity alive by recording the songs straight-forward without any overdubs, and yet the sound of the songs are uniquely his own even though they are covers. And his guitarwork in this album is unparalleled. This, in my opinion, is Eric Clapton's best work. Eric should have never gone astray to record hoary pop standards; his home is the blues.





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01- Blues Before Sunrise
02- Third Degree
03- Reconsider Baby
04- Hoochie Coochie Man
05- Five Long Years
06- I'm Tore Down
07- How Long Blues
08- Goin' Away Baby
09- Blues Leave Me Alone
10- Sinner's Prayer
11- Motherless Child
12- It Hurts Me Too
13- Someday After a While
14- Standin' Round Crying
15- Driftin' Blues
16- Groaning the Blues

·"Clapton UnPlugged" - Eric Clapton

Clapton caught the "unplugged" trend just at the right time, when the public was hungry to hear how well rock stars and their material can hold up when stripped of elaborate production values. Clapton himself seemed baffled by the phenomenon, especially when picking up the armload of Grammys Unplugged earned him, including Record and Song of the Year for "Tears in Heaven," the heart-rending elegy to his young son, Conor. That song and a reworked version of "Layla" got most of the attention, but the rest of the album has fine versions of acoustic blues numbers such as "Malted Milk," "Rollin' & Tumblin', and "Before You Accuse Me" that make it worth investigating further.





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01- Signe
02- Before You Accuse Me
03- Hey Hey
04- Tears In Heaven
05- Lonely Stranger
06- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
07- Layla
08- Running On Faith
09- Walkin' Blues
10- Alberta
11- San Francisco Bay Blues
12- Malted Milk
13- Old Love
14- Rollin' & Tumblin'