FEATURING PREVIOULSY UNRELEASED MATERIALSUPER DELUXE GIVE ME STRENGTH BOX SET CELEBRATES HISTORIC YEAR IN THE CREATIVE LIFE OF ERIC CLAPTON 25th NOVEMBER UMC The fertile year that signalled the spectacular creative resurgence of Eric Clapton will be celebrated with the 25th November 2013 Super Deluxe release of Give Me Strength: The 74/75 Recordings. This exemplary collection features no fewer than 29 bonus tracks (12 of them previously unreleased) from the extraordinary period between April 1974 and June 1975, in which E.C. reclaimed and enhanced his status as one of rocks most legendary guitarists and singer-songwriters. Give Me Strength houses expanded, remastered versions of his acclaimed studio albums from the period, 461 Ocean Boulevard and Theres One In Every Crowd, the subsequent live set E.C. Was Here (now both remixed and expanded into a double CD), and a disc containing the complete, fabled Freddie King Criteria Studios Session. A sixth Blu-Ray disc adds a newly-available 5.1 Surround Sound mix of 461 and the original quadrophonic mix of both studio releases and the live album. 461 Ocean Boulevard, released in the summer of 1974 and named for the Miami beachfront mansion where the band lived during the recordings, marked Claptons return to recording after an absence of three years, and emphatically announced his creative and personal rehabilitation. Previewed by his signature interpretation of Bob Marleys I Shot The Sheriff, which topped the Hot 100, the album followed suit, leading the Billboard chart for four weeks, and going on to sell four million copies in the US alone. The new edition contains session outtakes and unreleased versionsof Getting Acquainted and the album staples Please Be With Me and Give Me Strength. Theres One In Every Crowd, recorded in Kingston, Jamaica at the landmark reggae studio Dynamic Sounds, was created in a break from the triumphant tour that followed the stunning success of 461. This restored edition offers Claptons non-album single interpretation of Bob Dylans Knockin On Heavens Door and a selection of session outtakes and unreleased tracks. That tour would be commemorated by the E.C. Was Here double set, now expanded across two discs with numerous unissued extras such as versions of Layla, Crossroads and Little Wing. Thats followed by the historic sessions at Criteria, where 461 had been made, in the summer of 74 with Claptons hero Freddie King, for Kings Burglar album. Four tracks from those sessions appear here, including a glorious, 22-minute Gambling Woman Blues. Rarely in rock history has an artist redefined and augmented their creative oeuvre quite as Eric Clapton did during the 1974-75 season. Give Me Strength: The 74/75 Recordings salutes this watershed era to stunning effect. 5 CD / BLU-RAY COLLECTION: DISC ONE 461 OCEAN BOULEVARD expanded version 1 MOTHERLESS CHILDREN 4:53 2 GIVE ME STRENGTH 2:54 3 WILLIE AND THE HAND JIVE 3:32 4 GET READY 3:47 5 I SHOT THE SHERIFF 4:27 6 I CANT HOLD OUT 4:14 7 PLEASE BE WITH ME 3:26 8 LET IT GROW 5:01 9 STEADY ROLLIN MAN 3:15 10 MAINLINE FLORIDA 4:08 Session out-takes: 11 AINT THAT LOVIN YOU 5:33 12 MEET ME (DOWN AT THE BOTTOM) 6:58 13 LONESOME ROAD BLUES (WALKIN DOWN THE ROAD) 5:16 14 GETTING ACQUAINTED 6:27 (previously unreleased) 15 GETTING ACQUAINTED 2 (TOO LATE) 4:19 (previously unreleased) 16 ERIC AFTER HOURS BLUES 4:24 17 PLEASE BE WITH ME (ACOUSTIC) 3:25 (previously unreleased) 18 GIVE ME STRENGTH (DOBRO 1) 3:29 (previously unreleased) DISC TWO THERES ONE IN EVERY CROWD expanded version 1 WEVE BEEN TOLD (JESUS IS COMING SOON) 4:29 2 SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT 3:33 3 LITTLE RACHEL 4:07 4 DONT BLAME ME 3:35 5 THE SKY IS CRYING 4:00 6 SINGIN THE BLUES 3:25 7 BETTER MAKE IT THROUGH TODAY 4:24 8 PRETTY BLUE EYES 4:48 9 HIGH 3:32 10 OPPOSITES 4:50 Session out-takes: 11 BURIAL 4:02 (previously unreleased) 12 WHATCHA GONNA DO 2:44 13 I FOUND A LOVE 3:41 14 (WHEN THINGS GO WRONG) IT HURTS ME TOO 5:48 15 FOOLS LIKE ME 5:09 (previously unreleased) Non-album single release: 16 KNOCKIN ON HEAVENS DOOR 4:24 17 SOMEONE LIKE YOU 4:30 DISC THREE E.C. WAS HERE remixed and expanded version 1 SMILE 3:35 Recorded at Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California, July 20, 1974 2 HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN 7:41 Recorded at Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California, July 19, 1974 3 PRESENCE OF THE LORD 8:47 Recorded at Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California, July 20, 1974 4 CROSSROADS 4:38 (previously unreleased) Recorded at Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California, July 20, 1974 5 I SHOT THE SHERIFF 7:35 (previously unreleased) Recorded at Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California, July 20, 1974 6 LAYLA 6:00 (previously unreleased) Recorded at Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California, July 20, 1974 7 LITTLE WING 8:57 (previously unreleased) Recorded at Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California, July 20, 1974 8 CANT FIND MY WAY HOME 5:18 Recorded at Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California, July 20, 1974 9 DRIFTIN BLUES / RAMBLIN ON MY MIND 11:38 Recorded at Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California, July 20, 1974 DISC FOUR E.C. WAS HERE remixed and expanded version 1 RAMBLIN ON MY MIND / HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN 8:15 Recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, December 4, 1974. 2 WILLIE AND THE HAND JIVE / GET READY 11:27 Recorded at Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California, July 20, 1974 3 THE SKY IS CRYING / HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN / RAMBLIN ON MY MIND 7:25 Recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, December 5, 1974. 4 BADGE 10:43 Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale New York, June 28, 1975) 5 DRIFTIN BLUES 6:55 Recorded at Providence Civic Center, Providence, Rhode Island, June 25, 1975. 6 EYESIGHT TO THE BLIND / WHY DOES LOVE GOT TO BE SO SAD 23:50 Recorded at Providence Civic Center, Providence, Rhode Island, June 25, 1975. 7 FURTHER ON UP THE ROAD 7:35 Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale New York, June 28, 1975) DISC FIVE (BLU-RAY) 1 461 OCEAN BOULEVARD Elliot Scheiner 5.1 Surround Sound mix (previously unreleased) 5.1 Surround Mix by Elliot Scheiner at The Eyeball. 2 461 OCEAN BOULEVARD original quadraphonic mix Mixed by Tom Dowd at Criteria Recording Studios, Miami, Florida, January 1975. 3 THERES ONE IN EVERY CROWD original quadraphonic mix Mixed by Tom Dowd at Criteria Recording Studios, Miami, Florida, January 1975. 4 E.C. WAS HERE original quadraphonic mix (previously unreleased) Mixed by Tom Dowd at Criteria Recording Studios, Miami, Florida, January 1975 3 LP COLLECTION LP ONE - 461 OCEAN BOULEVARD Side One 1 MOTHERLESS CHILDREN 4:53 2 GIVE ME STRENGTH 2:54 3 WILLIE AND THE HAND JIVE 3:32 4 GET READY 3:47 5 I SHOT THE SHERIFF 4:27 Side Two 6 I CANT HOLD OUT 4:14 7 PLEASE BE WITH ME 3:26 8 LET IT GROW 5:01 9 STEADY ROLLIN MAN 3:15 10 MAINLINE FLORIDA 4:08 LP TWO - THERES ONE IN EVERY CROWD Side One 1 WEVE BEEN TOLD (JESUS IS COMING SOON) 4:29 2 SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT 3:33 3 LITTLE RACHEL 4:07 4 DONT BLAME ME 3:35 5 THE SKY IS CRYING 4:00 Side Two 6 SINGIN THE BLUES 3:25 7 BETTER MAKE IT THROUGH TODAY 4:24 8 PRETTY BLUE EYES 4:48 9 HIGH 3:32 10 OPPOSITES 4:50 LP THREE - E.C. WAS HERE original mix Side One 1 HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN 7:52 2 PRESENCE OF THE LORD 6:43 3 DRIFTIN BLUES 3:25 Side Two 4 CANT FIND MY WAY HOME 5:19 5 RAMBLIN ON MY MIND / HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN 7:26 6 FURTHER ON UP THE ROAD 7:30 universalmusic
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