Eric Clapton image by Ros O'Gorman

Eric Clapton photo by Ros O'Gorman

Eric Clapton Expands Unplugged

by Roger Wink, VVN Music on September 8, 2013

in New Music,News

Eric Clapton will release a new, expanded and remastered version of his Grammy winning Album of the Year, Unplugged.

A firm date has not been announced but the album is expected in mid-October.

Included is the remastered version of the original album plus a second disc of songs that didn’t make the set including a cover of Big Maceo Merriweather’s Worried Life Blues, an alternate take of Walkin’ Blues and early versions of Circus and My Father’s Eyes — songs that would surface six years later on Clapton’s album Pilgrim.

The DVD has the original broadcast version of the MTV Unplugged show plus more than an hour of unreleased rehearsal footage, including performances of the previously mentioned Circus and My Father’s Eyes.

Track List:

Disc 1
Signe
Before You Accuse Me
Hey Hey
Tears In Heaven
Lonely Stranger
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out
Layla
Running On Faith
Walkin’ Blues
Alberta
San Francisco Bay Blues
Malted Milk
Old Love
Rollin’ & Tumblin’

Disc Two (Outtakes & Alternates)
Circus
My Father’s Eyes (Take 1)
Running On Faith (Take 1)
Walkin’ Blues (Take 1)
My Father’s Eyes (Take 2)
Worried Life Blues

DVD Rehearsal Track List
Signe
Before You Accuse Me
Hey Hey
Tears In Heaven
Circus
Lonely Stranger
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out
Layla
My Father’s Eyes
Running On Faith
Walkin’ Blues
Alberta
San Francisco Bay Blues
Malted Milk

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