Two veteran in top form

Two veteran in top form

The Road to Escondido (Audio CD)

Customer Review

JJ Cale and Eric Clapton: Two veteran who really do not have to prove what they have everything on it. The album sounds so that you can feel: the two just made the whole thing fun. And they go perfectly! Not only in singing (actually anyone ever noticed that the two have a very similar style of singing and also move in approximately the same pitch?), But also when they attack both the guitar.

And then the two lots of congenial musicians have loaded into the studio: Billy Preston, Taj Mahal, Albert Lee, Gary Gilmore ... Fortunately handles all they too.

Cale and Clapton are to experiment anyway; they do not ride down their old boots. From deep black blues ("Sporting Life Blues") up to high-spirited bluegrass (directly afterwards: "Dead End Road", with gorgeous fiddle deposits) the spectrum of CD ranges. But "experiment" here does not mean that absolutely everything will be maxed out on Devil come-out - it means that Cale and Clapton let their musical instincts run wild and concentrate on the essentials, to tease out each song its special features. The result is a timeless album, regardless of all musical fashions of today and tomorrow.

Most of the songs on "The Road to Escondido" comes audibly from Cales spring, this certain relaxed, loose reclined Something that JJ Cale albums have always been characterized: this serene rhythm that is so typical and is never boring.

Ever, Clapton adheres mostly in the background in the recordings. This does not mean that one would not significantly hear his involvement ... Mr. Slowhand has forgotten nothing and relined Cales songs with hand strength Blues and wily guitar riffs - "When the War is Over" with its Cajun overtones example is a great example this, as well as "Dead End Road", "It's Easy" "Do not Cry, Sister," "Ride the River" and a few others. Specifically: Almost all of the songs could be mentioned here ... JJ Cale songs sound with the restrained Clapton sound in the background as if Clapton has always played with Cale. The songs are gaining depth, new nuances happen without the line being lost. Masterpieces all alike!

"The Road to Escondido" is clearly a JJ Cale-album, no question.

However, few tracks are also bred Clapton songs: for example, his ravishing version of the Brownie McGhee classic "Sporting Life Blues." Or "Hard to Thrill", a melancholy blues and also an ingenious further development of "The Thrill Is Gone". When would appear only in the booklet, which bassist here ensures that one of the "thrill" really running along the spinal cord ... Already a blues classics, I say cheekily.

A completely different Clapton one learns on the uninhibited "Three Little Girls" know - simple, easy, and accompanied only by guitar and harmonica Taj Mahal. Clapton in the footsteps of the Folk? - Absolutely! And wonderfully relaxed, a song to sit back and eyes closed.

The really fascinating thing about "The Road to Escondido" But with what sleepwalking Cale and Clapton can respond to each other without thereby abandoning their own style. Here you can hear actually duets, and no duels! Ravishing example are her gentle duet on "Sporting Life Blues" - all in the footsteps of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee and yet also quite independently - and also their real guitar dialogues in each song. Even a genuine Cale song eventually becomes even more luster when a Mr. Slowhand one of the party is.

The only weak point is just the first track - "Danger" sounds a bit washed out, does not have that precision, following this clear and yet playful line of 13. Deduct a star that's why I do not like - if only because I now listen to the whole evening and the album easily'm blown away.

It will not be the last night that I enjoy spending with these two gentlemen and their music.

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