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Take 84, mei 2004

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As you read elsewhere in this issue of Uncut, Eric Clapton is one of rock's most thoughtful and honest interviewees.
Buth he's also one of life's great enthusiasts, and when we asked if he'd be interested in compiling a CD of the music that has influenced his career he jumped at the idea with astonishing enthusiasm and energy.

This collection isn't the result of a few vague notes on the back of an envelope along the lines of "something by Robert Johnson" or a casual phonecall suggestion that we "pick a track by John Lee Hooker''. Once the invitation was issued, Eric spent hours choosing specific tracks from his record collection and burning them off to create a selection that he felt both told us something about his own roots and gave an insight into the character of the music that helped shape him.You will find many of his revered blues heroes here. "I've tried to play folk, country, jazz and pop, but I do blues best and that's been given to me to do, "he says. Some of those blues masters he got to play alongside, such as Freddy King. Others, like Blind Lemon Jefferson and Robert Johnson, were dead before he was even born. But Eric Clapton is not only a bluesman.
He wanted this CD to reflect his life-long love of classical music, hence his choice of pieces by Puccini and Faure. And he wanted to register his appreciation of jazz, hence Monk and Metheny.

There's plenty more he would have liked to include. Some Stax and Motown to reflect the passion for soul and R&B of a man who, as our interview reveals, told The Yardbirds they'd be better off recording an obscure Otis Redding B-side than "For Your Love". If there had been space for rock influences, tracks by Traffic, The Band and JJ Cale would have been in there. We could really have done with a box set.

eanwhilIe, we are proud to present the roots of Eric Clapton. The shoots will have to wait until next time.
As you read elsewhere in this issue of Uncut, Eric Clapton is one of rock's most thoughtful and honest interviewees.
Buth he's also one of life's great enthusiasts, and when we asked if he'd be interested in compiling a CD of the music that has influenced his career he jumped at the idea with astonishing enthusiasm and energy.

This collection isn't the result of a few vague notes on the back of an envelope along the lines of "something by Robert Johnson" or a casual phonecall suggestion that we "pick a track by John Lee Hooker''. Once the invitation was issued, Eric spent hours choosing specific tracks from his record collection and burning them off to create a selection that he felt both told us something about his own roots and gave an insight into the character of the music that helped shape him.You will find many of his revered blues heroes here. "I've tried to play folk, country, jazz and pop, but I do blues best and that's been given to me to do, "he says. Some of those blues masters he got to play alongside, such as Freddy King. Others, like Blind Lemon Jefferson and Robert Johnson, were dead before he was even born. But Eric Clapton is not only a bluesman.
He wanted this CD to reflect his life-long love of classical music, hence his choice of pieces by Puccini and Faure. And he wanted to register his appreciation of jazz, hence Monk and Metheny.

There's plenty more he would have liked to include. Some Stax and Motown to reflect the passion for soul and R&B of a man who, as our interview reveals, told The Yardbirds they'd be better off recording an obscure Otis Redding B-side than "For Your Love". If there had been space for rock influences, tracks by Traffic, The Band and JJ Cale would have been in there. We could really have done with a box set.

MeanwhilIe, we are proud to present the roots of Eric Clapton. The shoots will have to wait until next time.
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