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...Eric Clapton's Journeyman is a disappointing collection of apparently left over tracks from the August recording sessions, thrown together with some new, mainly pop-oriented material. A few pleasant tracks contributed by blues musician Robert Cray and three wonderful new covers of some 40-year-old blues tunes fail to carry Clapton's latest album to a level significantly above that of any of his other projects of the past 10 years...
...Eric Clapton...
...Assemble a handful of the best jazz, R.-and-B. and rock artists, and turn them loose in a weekly, hour-long musical showcase that has smooth-talking alto saxman David Sanborn as host. Result: the best damn music show on television. Look for Eric Clapton, Robert Cray and Taj Mahal to perform this season...
...generation that let down its Hair in 1968 and sang those lyrics gave birth to forms that still shape popular music, literature, film and television. Laugh-In begot Saturday Night Live. Julia paved the way for The Cosby Show. 2001: A Space Odyssey has metamorphosed into Star Wars. Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix spawned Heavy Metal. Big Bird wanders down Sesame Street, still a hippie innocent, a naive, ever hopeful thing with feathers...
...cause, done in by drugs and alcohol. The nobility of their nihilism is, today, a nightmare, the dark side of the force set free in the '60s. The paeans to the generation's liberties echo dolorously, as Love has truly become as strong as Death. "Sometimes," ( Eric Clapton said recently, "you need to hear some harmonic softeners, some quiet, to kind of quench the fire and calm yourself." But the fire cannot be fully extinguished. Though they abhor its destructiveness, those who lived through 1968 are still hooked on the energy, prisoners of their old freedoms. They may now feel...