Now that's really nice rhythm and blues with everything that goes with it: heavy harmonica, beautiful Klaviergeklimmper, trumpet, saxophone and coarse Guitarrengeschraddel. Also fascinating is the bassist Dave Bronze, comes very good effect! Eric laments in some songs (4,7,13,14,15) his (own?) Problems with women and the foul mood that one has after a long day at work, what is outstanding by slow heavy rhythms over. But there are also some case that are really fast (I'm tore down, ...) and for that very reason be fun. Actually it is quite untypical Eric Clapton, but that's nothing bad. On the contrary, he has his repertoire thereby greatly enriched. It is a pity that the booklet is no text here but any dog (named Billy, Sock, Treacle) are mapped, well, and the participating artists themselves. "From the Cradle" it is safe because it is so beautiful, earthy blues. Under the old rules! The CD's just fun! (This is an Amazon.com at the university-student review.)