Word: songs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rather than California lenders. The Puget Sound National Bank boasts in TV commercials of being the last locally owned bank in the state. TV anchors play to the crowd by deriding Californians for building show-off "French chateaus." And radio station KEZX has been airing a new local folk song, Don't Come to Seattle...
...fades out with Clapton crooning the words "for your love" over and over again. Struggling alongside friend Robert Cray, Clapton is completely overpowered by synthesizers and programmed drums. Now so far removed from his blues roots, the journeyman that Clapton has become seems willing to do anything for a song that can play on today's top-40 radio. The unfortunate link that "Anything For Your Love" provides with Clapton's past is a sorrowful, reproachful look back to what was and to what could have been...
...Hard Times" is a traditional blues song from 1961, and while Clapton's vocals and arrangement may be a little too close to Ray Charles' original version, the guitar licks that Clapton inserts add texture and counterpoint to the song. Overall, "Hard Times" comes across as beautifully relaxed and soulful, and contrasts nicely with a swing version of "Hound Dog," which follows...
...Before You Accuse Me" is the best song on Journeyman, sounding like something Clapton might have done with John Mayall 20 years ago. With some help from Cray and a real live drummer, Clapton concludes his newest album with this wonderful update of E. McDaniel's 30-year-old blues tune. Clapton's vocals do sound a little weak, and the song was not mixed with any particular technical insight. But "Before You Accuse Me" has lots of raw energy, and the subdued vocals and lack of mixing actually lend the track a feeling of authenticity...