Track Listing

1. Blue Eyes Blue
2. Change The World
3. My Father's Eyes
4. Tears In Heaven
5. Layla
6. Pretending
7. Bad Love
8. Before You Accuse Me
9. It's In The Way That You Use It
10. Forever Man
11. Running On Faith
12. She's Waiting
13. River Of Tears
14. I Get Lost
15. Wonderful Tonight

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3579 in Music
• Released on: 1999-10-18
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
If this is your first exposure to Eric Clapton, a bit of bewilderment would be in order. This is the legendary guitar icon. This is (as his early apostles once proclaimed) God. Ranging from the mid-80s through to the late 90s, The Clapton Chronicles owes less to the groundbreaking blues-rock of Clapton's 60s and 70s classics than to the polished-to-a-glare pop of Phil Collins, who produced one of the tracks included in this 14-song anthology. His reinterpretation of his greatest recording--the once-gripping, now-placid "Layla"--perhaps best illustrates Clapton at middle-age: Who wants to bask in his darkest period? Not Clapton, who converts his surging, purging charge into a soothing stroll. And perhaps not fans of such docile MOR fare as "My Father's Eyes", "Tears in Heaven" and the two new tracks, "Blue Eyes Blue" and "Get Lost". --Steven Stolder

CD Description
This disc charts the career of the former-Cream vocalist and guitarist, Eric Clapton, between the years of 1981 and 1999. In that time he released ten studio albums and 'Clapton Chronicles' selects the most popular tracks from this period.Four top 40 hits are included.

Customer Reviews

Eric Clapton has slowed down.
Once a master of blues guitar rock, in the last twenty years Eric Clapton has turned his talents to pop-rock. Chronicles is the definitive introduction to pop-rock Clapton. It is an excellent introduction to Clapton's recent music. The guitar playing is all over the album and is good but not the dazzling stuff of his early years that became the stuff of legend. Highlights of this CD include the beautiful, acoustically based Tears in Heaven, the live, acoustic reworking of Layla and the live version of Wonderful Tonight. Those listeners who want to know why Clapton is regarded as a guitar legend and would like to hear his work before he became Chris De Burgh's older brother of this CD, should buy Derek and the Dominoes' Layla.

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!
Five stars isn't enough. We have a massive collection of cd's of many various artists. This is the best ever. EVERY track is superb. You don't have to be a staunch Eric Clapton fan to appreciate the quality, we have had many customers to our restaurant hear it as background music and ask what it is & where to buy etc. River of tears & My fathers eyes are superb tracks. Truly a genious at work.

Not so much soft as flaccid
If this was the best of Clapton then there would be none of his albums in my collection. No surprise to see Phil Collins was involved, this is Clapton sans fire, sans soul, sans almost everything. Despite his inconsistent output he has produced some magical albums from Mayall onwards, be picky there are much much better albums than this MOR, corporate moneygrabber.