Artist: Eric Clapton Salute
Title: I Feel Free
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: BHP Music
Genre: Instrumental, Blues Rock, Electric Blues
Quality: FLAC
Total Time: 52:05
Total Size: 373 MB
Tracklist:
01. Badge by James Ryan (5:23)
02. Hideaway by Martin Winch (3:19)
03. Tears In Heaven by Doug Doppler (3:45)
04. I Feel Free by Howard Hart (3:53)
05. White Room by Randy Coven (4:19)
06. Wonderful Tonight / I Feel Free by POM (5:14)
07. Sunshine Of Your Love by Brian Tarquin (4:08)
08. Keep On Growing by Larry Van Fleet (3:44)
09. Cocaine by Carlo Fragnito (4:43)
10. Crossroads by Chris Mahoney (5:43)
Bonus Tracks:
11. How Blue Can You Get by B.B. King (3:27)
12. Politician by Pat Travers (4:22)
The funny thing about tributes to Eric Clapton is that Clapton has done them himself, and he would be the first to tell you that his career has been built on his attempts to emulate his own blues heroes, and that would be true to a point, but Clapton was wise enough, or maybe, at times, just lucky enough, to show how those players he loved could be translated into the electric age of rock, and he did it with a tremendous amount of raw elegance and style more often than not. This tribute set doesn't stretch things too far, and while cuts here like James Ryan's version of "Badge" and Brian Tarquin's version of "Sunshine of Your Love" are big, boisterous, and fun to hear, they work largely because of the original and defining riffs that Clapton devised to carry these songs in the first place. The real gem of the disc is a live, horn-filled take on "How Blue Can You Get" (listed as one of two "bonus" tracks here) by B.B. King. One imagines it would be the track Clapton would go to first, next, and last. King makes the song his. No one else here does that.
