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Eric Clapton - Give Me Strength (The 1974-1975 Recordings) (2013)

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Give Me Strength: The ’74/’75 Recordings is a 5CD+ Blu-ray Audio box set that celebrates the period between April 1974 and June 1975 when Clapton produced the studio albums 461 Ocean Boulevard and There’s One In Every Crowd, as well as the live double set E.C. Was Here. All three of those albums are included in this new box in remastered, expanded form, and all include previously unreleased session outtakes or unheard live performances. 461 Ocean Boulevard includes four previously released outtakes (including a couple of versions of Getting Acquainted), whilst amongst the bonus offerings on There’s One In Every Crowd are two unreleased session tracks Burial and Fools Like Me, and both sides of the Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door single. E.C. Was Here is not only remastered, but REMIXED, and expanded across two CDs, with numerous unissued extras such as versions of Layla, Crossroads and Little Wing.

Give Me Strength: The 1974/1975 Recordings features a wealth of unreleased recordings and material including: A 60-page hardbound book with extensive liner notes and packed with rare photos and behind-the-scene images. Rare, unreleased outtakes from 461 Ocean Boulevard and There's One In Every Crowd. E.C. Was Here remixed and expanded features live tracks from Long Beach Arena (including unreleased versions of Crossroads, I Shot The Sheriff, Layla and Little Wing), the Hammersmith Odeon, Nassau Coliseum and Providence Civic Center. The fifth CD is taken up with Clapton’s sessions with blues guitarist and singer Freddie King. Originally recorded for King’s Burglar album, four tracks are featured here, including a previously unreleased 22-minute version of Gambling Woman Blues.

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DISC 1 - 461 Ocean Boulevard (Expanded Version)
01 Motherless Children
02 Give Me Strength
03 Willie And The Hand Jive
04 Get Ready
05 I Shot The Sheriff
06 I Can't Hold Out
07 Please Be With Me
08 Let It Grow
09 Steady Rollin' Man
10 Mainline Florida
11 Ain't That Lovin You
12 Meet Me (Down At The Bottom)
13 Lonesone Road Blues [Walking Down the Road]
14 Getting Acquainted
15 Getting Acquainted 2 (Too Late)
16 Eric After Hours Blues
17 Please Be With Me [Acoustic]
18 Give Me Strength (Dobro 1)

DISC 2 - There's One In Every Crowd (Expanded Version)
01 We've Been Told (Jesus Is Coming Soon)
02 Swing Low Sweet Chariot
03 Little Rachel
04 Don't Blame Me
05 The Sky Is Crying
06 Singin' The Blues
07 Better Make It Through Today
08 Pretty Blue Eyes
09 High
10 Opposites
11 Burial
12 Whatcha Gonna Do
13 I Found A Love
14 (When Things Go Wrong) It Hurts Me Too
15 Fools Like Me
16 Knockin' On Heaven's Door
17 Someone Like You

DISC 3 - E.C. Was Here (Remixed and Expanded Version, Part One)
01 Smile
02 Have You Ever Loved A Woman
03 Presence Of The Lord
04 Crossroads
05 I Shot The Sheriff
06 Layla
07 Little Wing
08 Can't Find My Home
09 Driftin' Blues  Ramblin' On My Mind

DISC 4 - E.C. Was Here (Remixed and Expanded Version, Part Two)
01 Rambling On My Mind- Have You Ever Loved A Woman
02 Willie And The Hand Jive- Get Ready
03 The Sky Is Crying- Have You Ever Loved A Woman- Rambling On My Mind
04 Badge
05 Drifting Blues
06 Eyesight To The Blind- Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad
07 Further On Up The Road

DISC 5 - The Freddie King Criteria Studios Sessions
01 Sugar Sweet
02 TV Mama
03 Boogie Funk
04 Gambling Woman Blues

461 Ocean Boulevard was Eric Clapton's comeback, the record that saw him returning from a struggle with heroin addiction to reclaim his position as one of the world's biggest rock stars. The 1974 album forms the core of Give Me Strength: The 1974/1975 Recordings, a massive five-CD/one-BluRay box set documenting Clapton's mid-'70s recordings. The first CD is dedicated to an expanded version of 461 Ocean Boulevard -- an expansion that is different than the 2004 double-disc Deluxe Edition -- while the second CD is an expanded version of 1975's There's One in Every Crowd. Discs three and four are handed over to an expanded version of the 1975 live album E.C. Was Here, turning the single-LP into a double, while the fifth disc is devoted to a jam session at Criteria Studios with Freddie King. Finally, the BluRay contains a previously unreleased 5.1 mix of 461 Ocean Boulevard, along with its original quadraphonic mix, plus the quad mix of There's One in Every Crowd. It's a rather exhaustive overhaul of an era of E.C.'s career that isn't particularly storied, and all the extra material doesn't add mystique but it does re-create context, capturing how the mid-'70s could often feel like a long series of languid, meandering blues and reggae jams. Neither There's One in Every Crowd nor E.C. Was Here were particularly focused, and the additional material accentuates their laziness while having the side effect of having 461 Ocean Boulevard sound bolder (even though it already was a decidedly relaxed affair). All this drifting blues doesn't mean Give Me Strength isn't worthwhile. Quite the contrary: this is precisely the kind of archival release that does deepen the historical record, revealing the extent of the guitarist's reggae fixation while emphasizing how quickly Clapton settled into a relaxed groove after his comeback. Sometimes the jams do wind up cooking -- this is particularly true of the jam with King -- but usually they're improvisation as mood music, smoke-filled superstar sessions where the intention is to play on and on until the night is gone.