New songs and good Covers: skillfully, casual + relaxed!

After Eric Clapton had interpreted his last album in 2004 exclusively songs of his idol Robert Johnson, he now presents the first own new material for almost 5 years. Mr. Slowhand are quite loose, casual and relaxed on his new album "Back Home". It offers a lot of variety and extremely skillfully reminds his trip back home to many milestones in his long career. The 12 songs with a playing time of 60:16 minutes, perform soulful arrangements, blues, gospel, reggae and nice melodic pop. The first single "Revolution" is a reggae track, as in 1974, "I Shot The Sheriff", only this time even wrote (with Simon Climie) and not been covered by Bob Marley ...

"Back Home" was re-recorded by the classic Eric Clapton-cast that accompanies the Master for several years fixed, namely drummer Steve Gadd, bassist Nathan East, guitarists Andy Fairweather Low and Doyle Bramhall II, and keyboardists Billy Preston and Simon Climie. But the number of guests on the album to be proud of and performs with Steve Winwood (Synth), John Mayer (guitar), Robert Randolph (dobro), Chris Stainton (Fender Rhodes), Stephen Marley (Perc), Abraham Laboriel, Jr. (drums), Pino Paladino (bass) and Toby Baker (keyboards) illustrious names in the program.
In addition to 5 songs that Eric wrote together with Simon Climie, also some cover versions are on the album. So the George Harrison-number "Love Comes To Everyone", the Spinners track "Love Do not Love Nobody" and Stevie Wonder / Syretta Wrights' "Going Left". Other songs are from Vince Gill, Doyle Bramhall II and Eric himself.
The album was very well produced by Simon Climie ... safe for some fans to smooth and many are doing the corners and edges are missing. It is the rather POPable, soulful series of albums like "August" 1986 "Journeyman" in 1989 and "Pilgrim" 1998 continues. Simply a good mix beautiful songs perfectly, yet cool casual played by consistently superb musicians. To relax and enjoy ... Cool!