Eric Clapton - No Reason to Cry (2014) [24-192 HD FLAC]

Eric Clapton - No Reason To Cry
Label: Polydor Records
Format: 11 files FLAC, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 24bit 192kHz HDtracks
Released: 2014
Originally released 1976
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock


Tracklist:

01. Beautiful Thing (4:26)
02. Carnival (3:44)
03. Sign Language (2:58)
04. County Jail Blues (4:00)
05. All Our Past Times (4:40)
06. Hello Old Friend (3:37)
07. Double Trouble (4:23)
08. Innocent Times (4:12)
09. Hungry (4:40)
10. Black Summer Rain (4:57)
11. Last Night (4:55)


Personnel:

Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals
Bob Dylan - vocals on "Sign Language"

The Band:
Robbie Robertson - guitar, keyboards
Rick Danko - bass
Garth Hudson - keyboards, sax
Levon Helm - drums
Richard Manuel- drums

Ron Wood - guitar
Jesse Ed Davis - guitar
Billy Preston - keyboards
Georgie Fame - keyboards
Dick Sims - keyboards
Terry Danko - percussion
Bobby Ellis - trumpet
Albhy Galuten - piano
Jamie Oldaker - drums
Carl Radle - bass
Sergio Rodriguez - percussion
George Terry - guitar
Wah-Wah Watson - guitar
Marcy Levy a.k.a. Marcella Detroit - vocals (lead vocals on "Innocent Times")
Yvonne Elliman - vocals
Chris Jagger - vocals
Sandy Castle - vocals


When he gave a speech inducting the Band into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Eric Clapton said that after he heard their debut album, Music from Big Pink, he wanted to join the group, the fact that they already had a guitarist in Robbie Robertson notwithstanding. In the winter of 1975-1976, when he cut No Reason to Cry at the Band's Shangri-La Studio in Malibu, California, he came as close as he ever would to realizing that desire. Clapton is a musical chameleon; though some of No Reason to Cry is identifiable as the kind of pop/rock Clapton had been making since the start of his solo career (the best of it being "Hello Old Friend," which became his first Top 40 single in two years), the most memorable music on the album occurs when Clapton is collaborating with members of the Band and other guests. He duets with Band bassist Rick Danko on Danko's "All Our Past Times," and with Bob Dylan on Dylan's "Sign Language," as Robertson's distinctive lead guitar is heard rather than Clapton's. (AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann)