Eric Clapton & the Yardbirds Live with Sonny Boy Williamson [Original recording reissued, HiFi Sound, Cutout, Live]

ERIC CLAPTON & THE YARDBIRDS WITH SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON (Author, Performer) | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, HiFi Sound, Cutout, Live
• Label: MERCURY
• ASIN: B001BHARYA
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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• Note: Cutouts are bargain-priced CDs that may have a "cut" or hole punched through the packaging. The CDs are new and unplayed, and they are covered by our standard returns policy for other CDs.

Editorial Reviews

THIS IS A VINYL RECORD ALBUM BY ERIC CLAPTON & THE YARDBIRDS WITH SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON CALLED "ERIC CLAPTON & THE YARDBIRDS LIVE WITH SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON", & IT'S ON THE MERCURY LABEL #ML-8003 IN ELECTRONIC STEREO! IT CONTAINS (9) BLUES TUNES LIKE: "BYE, BYE BIRD, MISTER DOWNCHILD, 23 HOURS TOO LONG, OUT OF WATER COAST, BABY DON'T WORRY, PONTIAC BLUES, TAKE IT EASY BABY, I DON'T CARE NO MORE + DO THE WESTON".

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4.0 out of 5 stars The first of the Chess artists' "London Albums:, October 15, 2007

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William E Donoghue "Fessor Mojo" (Healdsburg CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eric Clapton & The Yardbirds Live With Sonny Boy Williamson (Vinyl)

If you are looking for Clapton's first recorded solo it is on this album made when the Yardbirds were travelling as back-up band for blues legend Sonny Boy Williamson II (Alex "Rice" Miller). Sonny Boy also recorded with the Animals, Jimmy Page, Brian Auger and the Trinity and Chris Barber and Roland Kirk in the jazz field.
Clapton claims the that the difficult Williamson taught him to "play with feeling." At the time Brits were playing the blues but had not caught the fire behind the music.
It would be nearly a decade later before Muddy, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry and other Chess and Checker artists would record with British rock stars.
Sonny Boy was always ahead of his time. He and his friend Robert Lockwood Jr. played electric blues through car radios and jukeboxes in 1938 six years before Muddy Waters owned an electric guitar.
Chicago Blues was born in the delta, not in Chicago.