Eric Clapton

Even though ol' Slowhand unleashed this album of original material after the Cream union tour, don't expect drug-addled, mind-melting psychedelia. Back Home is much tamer than even their "Tales of Brave Ulysses" -- in fact, if Edie Brickell was really a middle-aged man who wailed on the guitar, she'd sound a lot like this.

As this title to Eric Clapton's new album has it, the guitar giant has now returned back home
from his recent meetings at the crossroads with Robert Johnson (Me and Mr. Johnson,
Sessions for Robert J) -- and the new album is a far more restrained, tasteful and slickly
produced environment. Shaking hellhounds off your trail is one thing, but domesticity, one
of Back Home's central themes, presents its own trials. "Now Mama's gettin' snap... More >