Back Home (Eric Clapton album)

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Back Home
Back Home cover
Studio album by Eric Clapton
Released 29 August 2005
Recorded 2004-2005
Genre Blues-Rock
Length 60:17
Label Reprise Records
Producer Eric Clapton
Professional reviews
Eric Clapton chronology
Me and Mr. Johnson
(2004)		 Back Home
(2005)		 Complete Clapton
(2007)
For other uses, see Back Home (disambiguation)

Back Home is an album by British singer/songwriter Eric Clapton. It was released 29 August 2005 internationally and a day later in the United States. It is his first album featuring new, original material since 2001's Reptile as the previous release Me and Mr. Johnson is an album of song covers of Robert Johnson.

"Say What You Will" is a song that Clapton offered to the Japanese musical group SMAP.

Contents

[edit] Track Listing

  1. "So Tired" (Clapton/Climie) - 4:47
  2. "Say What You Will" (Clapton/Climie) - 4:35
  3. "I'm Going Left" (Stevie Wonder/Syreeta Wright) - 4:03
  4. "Love Don't Love Nobody" (Jefferson/Simmons) - 7:13
  5. "Revolution" (Clapton/Climie) - 5:00
  6. "Love Comes to Everyone" (Harrison) - 4:35
  7. "Lost and Found" (Bramhall II/Stacey) - 5:21
  8. "Piece of My Heart" (Bramhall II/Melvoin/Elizondo) - 4:22
  9. "One Day" (Gill/Darnall) - 5:20
  10. "One Track Mind" (Clapton/Climie) - 5:04
  11. "Run Home to Me" (Clapton/Climie) - 6:18
  12. "Back Home" (Clapton) - 3:33

[edit] Reception

Alan Douglas and Mick Guzauski (engineer) won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for the album.

[edit] George Harrison tribute

Back Home was the first studio album released since the death of his good friend, George Harrison in November of 2001. The previous studio album being entirely composed of songs by Robert Johnson, Eric Clapton covered the George Harrison song "Love Comes to Everyone" from his 1978 self-titled album as tribute to his former friend.

[edit] DualDisc version

The special edition DualDisc format of the album features the whole album in surround sound, an interview with Eric, and five selections from the album played live in the studio. This special package also featured four exclusive guitar picks which display "Back Home" and Clapton's signature on them. The picks came in violet, blue, red and grey.

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