Eric Clapton is the eponym

Eponym

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ous debut solo album

Album

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 from Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...

, released in August of 1970

1970 in music

- Events :*January 3**Davy Jones announces he is leaving the Monkees**Former Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett releases his first solo album The Madcap Laughs....

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Track listing - original 1970 release

All selections written by Delaney Bramlett

Delaney Bramlett

Delaney Bramlett was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer. Bramlett's five decade career reached peaks in creativity, performance, and notoriety in partnership with his then wife Bonnie Bramlett, in a revolving troupe of professional musicians and Rock superstars dubbed Delaney...

, Bonnie Bramlett

Bonnie Bramlett

Bonnie Bramlett is an American singer and sometime actress known for her distinctive vocals in rock and pop music. This began in the mid 1960s as a backing singer, forming the husband-and-wife team of Delaney & Bonnie, and continuing to the present day as a solo artist.-Life and career:Bramlett...

 and Eric Clapton, except as indicated.

Side one

1. "Slunky" – 3:34
2. "Bad Boy" – 3:34
3. "Lonesome and a Long Way from Home" (Delaney Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell
   Leon Russell
   Claude Russell Bridges , known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music....
   
   ) – 3:29
4. "After Midnight" (J. J. Cale) – 2:51
5. "Easy Now" (Clapton) – 2:57
6. "Blues Power" (Clapton, Russell) – 3:09

Side two

1. "Bottle of Red Wine" – 3:06
2. "Lovin' You Lovin' Me" – 3:19
3. "Told You For the Last Time" (Delaney Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett, Steve Cropper
   Steve Cropper
   Steve Cropper , also known as Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T...
   
   ) – 2:30
4. "Don't Know Why" – 3:10
5. "Let It Rain" – 5:02

The Tom Dowd

Tom Dowd

Tom Dowd was an American recording engineer and producer for Atlantic Records. He was credited with innovating the multi-track recording method. Dowd worked on a virtual "who's who" of recordings that encompassed blues, jazz, pop, rock and soul records.- Early years :Born in Manhattan, Dowd grew...

 mix, disc one

Tracks 1-11 were previously released in 1970 as listed above; track 12 originally released on the limited edition bonus CD that came with some early copies of Blues; track 13 originally released on King Curtis

King Curtis

Curtis Ousley , who performed under the stage name King Curtis, was an American saxophone virtuoso known for rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, funk and soul jazz. Variously a bandleader, band member, and session musician, he was also a musical director and record producer...

's 1970 Atco album Get Ready; track 14 previously unreleased.

1. "Slunky" – 3:33
2. "Bad Boy" – 3:33
3. "Lonesome and a Long Way From Home" – 3:29
4. "After Midnight" – 2:51
5. "Easy Now" – 2:57
6. "Blues Power" – 3:08
7. "Bottle of Red Wine" – 3:06
8. "Lovin' You, Lovin' Me" – 3:19
9. "Told You For the Last Time" – 2:30
10. "Don't Know Why" – 3:10
11. "Let It Rain" – 5:02
12. "Blues In 'A'"
    • Session outtake – 10:25
13. "Teasin'" (Curtis Ousley
    King Curtis
    Curtis Ousley , who performed under the stage name King Curtis, was an American saxophone virtuoso known for rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, funk and soul jazz. Variously a bandleader, band member, and session musician, he was also a musical director and record producer...
    
    ) – 2:14
    • Performed by King Curtis
      King Curtis
      Curtis Ousley , who performed under the stage name King Curtis, was an American saxophone virtuoso known for rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, funk and soul jazz. Variously a bandleader, band member, and session musician, he was also a musical director and record producer...
      
       with Delaney Bramlett, Eric Clapton & Friends.
14. "She Rides"
    • Previously unreleased "Let It Rain" alternate version – 5:08

The Delaney Bramlett mix, disc two

"After Midnight" originally issued on Clapton's 1988 box set Crossroads

Crossroads (box set)

Crossroads is a music collection box set by Eric Clapton. The set includes his work with The Yardbirds, John Mayall's Blues Breakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, and Derek and the Dominos, as well as his solo career...

; "Comin' Home" and "Groupie (Superstar)" originally issued on Atco in 1969 as a Delaney & Bonnie and Friends single. All other tracks previously unreleased.

1. "Slunky" – 3:33
2. "Bad Boy" – 3:41
3. "Easy Now" – 2:57
4. "After Midnight" – 3:17
5. "Blues Power" – 3:19
6. "Bottle of Red Wine" – 3:06
7. "Lovin' You, Lovin' Me" – 4:03
8. "Lonesome and a Long Way From Home" – 3:48
9. "Don't Know Why" – 3:43
10. "Let It Rain" – 5:03
11. "Don't Know Why" – 5:12
    • Previously unreleased Olympic Studios version
12. "I've Told You For the Last Time" – 6:46
    • Previously unreleased Olympic Studios version
13. "Comin' Home" (Delaney Bramlett
    Delaney Bramlett
    Delaney Bramlett was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer. Bramlett's five decade career reached peaks in creativity, performance, and notoriety in partnership with his then wife Bonnie Bramlett, in a revolving troupe of professional musicians and Rock superstars dubbed Delaney...
    
    , Bonnie Bramlett, Eric Clapton) – 3:14
    • Performed by Delaney & Bonnie and Friends featuring Eric Clapton
14. "Groupie (Superstar)" (Delaney Bramlett
    Delaney Bramlett
    Delaney Bramlett was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer. Bramlett's five decade career reached peaks in creativity, performance, and notoriety in partnership with his then wife Bonnie Bramlett, in a revolving troupe of professional musicians and Rock superstars dubbed Delaney...
    
    , Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell) – 2:48
    • Performed by Delaney & Bonnie and Friends featuring Eric Clapton

Performers

• Eric Clapton – guitar, lead vocals
• Delaney Bramlett
  Delaney Bramlett
  Delaney Bramlett was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer. Bramlett's five decade career reached peaks in creativity, performance, and notoriety in partnership with his then wife Bonnie Bramlett, in a revolving troupe of professional musicians and Rock superstars dubbed Delaney...
  
   – rhythm guitar, vocals
• Leon Russell
  Leon Russell
  Claude Russell Bridges , known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music....
  
   – piano
• Bobby Whitlock
  Bobby Whitlock
  Robert Stanley 'Bobby' Whitlock is a songwriter and performer, best known as a member of Derek and the Dominos.- Biography :...
  
   – organ, vocals
• John Simon
  John Simon (record producer)
  John Simon is an American musician, record producer, and composer. He is best known for his work with The Band as producer and musician on Music from Big Pink and The Band.-Biography:...
  
   – piano
• Carl Radle
  Carl Radle
  Carl Dean Radle was a bass guitarist who toured and recorded with many of the most influential recording artists of the late 1960s and 1970s...
  
   – bass
• Jim Gordon
  Jim Gordon (musician)
  James Beck "Jim" Gordon is an American recording artist, musician and songwriter. The Grammy Award winner was one of the most requested session drummers in the late 1960s and 1970s, recording albums with many well-known musicians of the time, and was the drummer in the blues-rock supergroup Derek...
  
   – drums
• Jim Price
  Jim Price
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   – trumpet
• Bobby Keys
  Bobby Keys
  Bobby Keys is an American saxophone player, and has performed with other musicians as a member of one of the notable horn sections of the 1970s. He appears on albums by The Rolling Stones, The Who, Harry Nilsson, Delaney Bramlett, George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, Eric Clapton and Joe...
  
   – saxophone
• Tex Johnson – percussion
• Bonnie Bramlett
  Bonnie Bramlett
  Bonnie Bramlett is an American singer and sometime actress known for her distinctive vocals in rock and pop music. This began in the mid 1960s as a backing singer, forming the husband-and-wife team of Delaney & Bonnie, and continuing to the present day as a solo artist.-Life and career:Bramlett...
  
   – vocals
• Rita Coolidge
  Rita Coolidge
  Rita Coolidge is a multiple Grammy Award-winning American vocalist. During the 1970s and 1980s, she charted hits on Billboard's Pop, Country, Adult Contemporary and Jazz charts.-Career:...
  
   – vocals
• Sonny Curtis
  Sonny Curtis
  Sonny Curtis is an American singer and songwriter. Most of his work falls into the Pop and Country genres. He was a teenage pal and band member with Buddy Holly in Lubbock, Texas...
  
   – vocals
• Jerry Allison
  Jerry Allison
  J.I. Allison is an American musician, best known for being the drummer for The Crickets and co-writer of their Buddy Holly hit "Peggy Sue"....
  
   – vocals
• Stephen Stills
  Stephen Stills
  Stephen Arthur Stills is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash . He has performed on a professional level in several other bands as well as maintaining a solo career at the same time...
  
  – vocals