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...anyone who respected Clapton for the musical integrity he showed in the '60s and '70s the worst moment on Journeyman comes at the end of the second song, "Anything For Your Love...
...first single released off Journeyman is also the first track on the album, and it epitomizes the problems that plague Clapton's newest release. "Pretending" leads off with a clever little piano introduction which segues into a brief Clapton guitar riff. But, as in much of Clapton's '80s releases, his guitar is kept firmly in the background, behind synthesized horns and a synth organ, dominated by a programmed drum kit which keeps an unnecessarily imposing beat...
When the lyrics come in, it becomes even more obvious that "Pretending" is another pop-oriented track executed under the influence of Jerry Williams, Clapton's songwriting partner who was responsible for much of the August album...
...Jerry Williams contribution on Journeyman is "Breaking Point," and it is easily the worst song of the album. So much synthesized funk is thrown into this track that Clapton's guitar can't even be heard. The vocals are multi-tracked, muddied and slurred, and the drums again completely overpower the song...
...past 30 years, Eric Clapton has performed and recorded with some of the finest musicians ever to play rock and roll, jazz and the blues. Even on Journeyman, Clapton managed to attract talent like George Harrison and Robert Cray, as well as musicians Phil Collins and David Sanborn and vocalists Chaka Khan and Daryl Hall. That Clapton has still found it necessary on his most recent albums to rely on synthesized instrumentation and programmed drums is a distressing sign of just how far he has fallen...