ERIC CLAPTON 1962 Pre - Rooster
	K E Y to releases: Regular Guest Appearance Bootleg Regular Bootleg Guest Appearance Related (no EC participation)

INDEX Tourography Index

CONTENTS

THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS - Robert Johnson
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• The Eric Clapton FAQ - Biography
• The History of Eric Clapton

CD1 Tracks:
1. Kind Hearted Woman Blues
2. Kind Hearted Woman Blues
3. I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
4. Sweet Home Chicago
5. Rambling On My Mind
6. Rambling On My Mind
7. When You Got A Good Friend
8. When You Got A Good Friend
9. Come On In My Kitchen
10. Come On In My Kitchen
11. Terraplane Blues
12. Phonograph Blues
13. Phonograph Blues
14. 32-20 Blues
15. They're Red Hot
16. Dead Shrimp Blues
17. Cross Road Blues
18. Cross Road Blues
19. Walking Blues
20. Last Fair Deal Gone Down
    CD2 Tracks:
21. Preaching Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)
22. If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day
23. Stones In My Passway
24. I'm A Steady Rollin' Man
25. From Four Till Late
26. Hellbound On My Trail
27. Little Queen Of Spades
28. Little Queen Of Spades
29. Malted Milk
30. Drunken Hearted Man
31. Drunken Hearted Man
32. Me & The Devil Blues
33. Me & The Devil Blues
34. Stop Breakin' Down Blues
35. Stop Breakin' Down Blues
36. Traveling Riverside Blues
37. Honeymoon Blues
38. Love In Vain
39. Love In Vain
40. Milkcow's Calf Blues
41. Milkcow's Calf Blues

Robert Johnson - vocals, acoustic guitar

This 2 CD box set represents the entire recorded output of this master.
THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS includes a 48-page booklet with biographical notes, rare photos and a complete discography.
Includes liner notes by Keith Richards and Eric Clapton.

CD Now
Noted blues historian Robert Palmer has called him "the Mississippi Delta's first modern blues-man," and over the past 50 years Robert Johnson's influence has reached out from beyond the grave. Though his recording output numbers fewer than 30 different songs, Johnson's catalog has been a treasure trove picked clean by artists ranging from Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones to Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead.
The beauty of THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS lies in its utter simplicity. Johnson's reedy vocals, accompanied only by a steel-string guitar, evoke the very essence of the Deep South with its mystery and intrigue. It's easy to see where the myth of Johnson going down to the crossroads to make a Faustian pact with Lucifer was first sown; it can be heard within the confines of "Cross Road Blues" and "Hellhound On My Trail." While the sound of Johnson's recordings has a discernible hiss to it, the unadulterated emotion resonating in his voice goes straight to the marrow, making these sonic limitations seem like an afterthought.

Q Magazine
Recommended as one of the five best blues releases of 1990 - "...Easily the most significant re-issue of the past year, THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS resolves many of the mysteries of Johnson's life while rendering the uncanny power of his work more mysterious than ever..."
Q Magazine 2/91
5 Stars - Indispensable - "...Without a doubt a man mummified in his own legend, but these 41 recordings - Johnson's entire output - remain essential nonetheless..."
Q Magazine 8/94, p.126


Rolling Stone
5 Stars - Classic - "...No other bluesman left a studio portrait that seems to come moaning and howling from the darkest recesses of his soul. The music has a power that age cannot dim..." Rolling Stone 10/18/90


Downbeat
5 Stars (out of 5) - "...the great country blues man and his classic 41 titles...cause us to step back in slack-jawed astonishment..." Down Beat 2/97, p.55
5 Stars - Excellent - "...Johnson's use of harmonics and chording was eons before his time, and his delivery and lyrics remain standards by which blues intensity is measured. The intimacy is eerie; you're in the literal presence of genius..." Down Beat 2/91


CMJ New Music Report
If there was ever one artist in the history of American music that should be considered mandatory listening for anyone and everyone, it would be Robert Johnson, the man who, though he lived a short life and recorded a mere 41 songs, may have been the most important blues singer who ever lived. It just happened that Johnson's stars were so crossed that he inherited not one or two, but virtually every sign and symbol that contributes to the making of a legend. Not only were tales and myths spun about him telling of mystical cross-roads dealings, his death by misadventure, his impentetrable personal nature, and rumors of his playing a Devil-tuned guitar, but his real genius and haunting-howling blues-reverberated after his life and influenced bluesmen from Sonny Boy Williamson to Muddy Waters to Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones. Including both known photos of Johnson (contrast the swank-suited cover shot with the meaner, more rough-and-tumble juke-joint musician of the inner photo), this package culls every known Johnson side an several astounding recently surfaced recordings with lucid essays from Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Johnson biographer Stephen C. LaVere. If there ever was a record that should be taught in schools, this is it. People need to know about Robert Johnson.
© 1978-1998 College Media, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

KING OF THE DELTA BLUES SINGERS	KING OF THE DELTA BLUES

CD Tracks:

CD Tracks:

• Matt Murphy
• Eddie Taylor
• Big Bill Broonzy
• Freddie King
• B.B. King
• Albert King
• Buddy Guy

30 March 1945

Eric Patrick Clapton born

• Location: Grandparent's house at 1, The Green, Ripley, Surrey, England,UK.
  County Map
• Mother: Patricia Molly Clapton
  
• Father: Edward Fryer
  
• Raised by maternal grandmother: Rose and Jack Clapp.
  The surname Clapton is from Rose's first husband, Reginald Cecil Clapton.

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Subject: RE: Why is Clapton's last name Clapton?
From: "Aleshin, Nicholas, Mr., ODCSINT"
EC's grandmother married a guy and became a Clapton. She and her husband had a daughter, Patricia Clapton. Patricia had an illegitimate son--Eric Patrick Clapton--fathered by a Canadian soldier named Edward Fryer in 1944, before the Normandy invasion. Grampa Clapton died. Grandma Clapton remarried a guy named Clapp. Therefore, Grandma's name changed from Clapton to Clapp. EC's mother married another Canadian fellow, went off to Canada, and had a family. Don't know what their name was.
...it is MacDonald....[jch]
Meanwhile, EC lived in England with his maternal grandmother and step-grandfather, both named Clapp.

...info courtesy of slowhand mailing list

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"Eric Patrick Clapton, born on 30 March 1945, was the son of unmarried Patricia Molly Clapton and a Canadian soldier stationed in England, Edward Fryer. Eric, born in the front room of his grandparents' two-up, two-down terraced house at 1, The Green, Ripley, Surrey, was raised there by his doting grandparents, Rose and Jack Clapp. Eric's surname came from Patricia Clapton's father, Reginald, who was Rose's first husband."

...from CLAPTON! by Ray Coleman, Warner Books

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1958

First Guitar

His grandmother bought Eric his first guitar, a 14# Spanish Hoya accoustic from Bell's Music Shop in Kingston, as a present on his 13th birthday.

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1959

Education

• Matriculated - Hollyfield Road School.

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1960

Some bios report that this was his first guitar:

A Hofner acoustic.

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1961

• Enrolled - Kingston College of Arts, London SW

A Brief History of Kingston College:

Located in southwest London, close to the River Thames, Kingston College provides students with a friendly and stimulating environment in which to gain qualifications. Some 3,500 full-time and 3,500 part-time students currently benefit from its professional approach to learning. Hardly surprising, therefore, is the rate of progression to higher education: each year over 500 Kingston,College students leave to become undergraduates at British Universities.

The origins of this success go back to 1899, when the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames built Science and Art Schools and a Technical Institute on the present main site of the College in Kingston Hall Road. The Victorian home of Kingston Technical College (as the institution was then known) survived till the 1960s, when major reconstruction work followed a local reorganisation of further and higher eduaction.

In 1962 Kingston Technical College split into the present college of further education and a college of technology, now Kingston University. Because Kingston College and Kingston University have this common heritage, there remains a strong bond between them today which works to the benefit of students. Jointly run courses and close staff relations ensure that a ladder of educational opportunity is available for both full-time and part-time students from post-GCSE to first degree levels, and beyond.

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1962

• Second guitar
  A 100# electric double-cutaway Kay
• Eric leaves college (Kingston College of Arts)...
  the world awaits!
  

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John Hamilton

Last modified: Fri Dec 4 15:24:29 HST 1998