Word: journeyman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anyone who respected Clapton for the musical integrity he showed in the '60s and '70s the worst moment on Journeyman comes at the end of the second song, "Anything For Your Love...
...Journeyman, "Anything For Your Love" fades out with Clapton crooning the words "for your love" over and over again. Struggling alongside friend Robert Cray, Clapton is completely overpowered by synthesizers and programmed drums. Now so far removed from his blues roots, the journeyman that Clapton has become seems willing to do anything for a song that can play on today's top-40 radio. The unfortunate link that "Anything For Your Love" provides with Clapton's past is a sorrowful, reproachful look back to what was and to what could have been...
Brighter links to Clapton's blues-based past are provided on Journeyman in the guise of three fresh covers of old blues tunes--"Hard Times," "Hound Dog" and "Before You Accuse...
...Before You Accuse Me" is the best song on Journeyman, sounding like something Clapton might have done with John Mayall 20 years ago. With some help from Cray and a real live drummer, Clapton concludes his newest album with this wonderful update of E. McDaniel's 30-year-old blues tune. Clapton's vocals do sound a little weak, and the song was not mixed with any particular technical insight. But "Before You Accuse Me" has lots of raw energy, and the subdued vocals and lack of mixing actually lend the track a feeling of authenticity...
...close your eyes during the final guitar solo at the end of "Before You Accuse Me," you just might think you're listening to an old Bluesbreakers tune. But you're not. Eric Clapton's Journeyman has planted him firmly in the 1980s world of synthesizers and drum kits. The few blues songs that prop up this album seem sadly anachronistic in an arena of bubble...