From the Cradle
Studio album by Eric Clapton
Released	September 13, 1994
Recorded	1994
Genre	Blues
Length	60:10
Label	Reprise Records
Producer	Eric Clapton & Russ Titelman
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone link
Eric Clapton chronology
Unplugged (1992) From the Cradle (1994) The Cream of Clapton (1995)

From the Cradle is a Grammy winning blues cover album by Eric Clapton released in 1994. A studio album is an original collection of new tracks by a recording artist Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945 is an English Blues-rock Guitarist, singer Songwriter and Composer Events 509 BC - The Temple of Jupiter on Rome 's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other The Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of Music based on the use of the Blue notes It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Reprise Records is an American Record label, founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra, which is owned by Warner Music Group, and operated In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing allmusic (previously All Music Guide) is a Metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945 is an English Blues-rock Guitarist, singer Songwriter and Composer Unplugged is an Album by Eric Clapton released in 1992. It was recorded live in England for the MTV Unplugged series The Cream of Clapton is an Eric Clapton compilation album released in the US in 1995 The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards)—or Grammys —are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences The Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of Music based on the use of the Blue notes It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression In Popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition ( Performance or Recording) of a previously recorded commercially released Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945 is an English Blues-rock Guitarist, singer Songwriter and Composer This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994. Per the liner notes, "This is a live recording with no overdubs or edits except for dobro overdub on 'How Long Blues' and drum overdub on 'Motherless Child'. "

Although long associated with the blues, From the Cradle was Clapton's first attempt at an all-blues album. He would subsequently record Riding with the King with B. B. King and a tribute to Robert Johnson, Me and Mr. Johnson. Riding with the King is a Blues Album by Eric Clapton and B B King (born Riley B King, September 16 1925 is an American Blues Guitarist and Singer-songwriter. Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8 1911 – August 16 1938 is among the most famous of Delta blues musicians Me and Mr Johnson is a Blues-rock Album by Eric Clapton released

Contents 1 Chart performance, singles, and awards 2 Chart Positions 3 Track listing 4 Personnel

Chart performance, singles, and awards

From the Cradle reached the #1 position in the 1994 Billboard 200 and #1 in the 1995 Billboard "Top Blues Album".

It had two singles: "I'm Tore Down" that reached the #5 position in the Mainstream Rock Tracks and "Motherless Child" that reached the #23 position in the same ranking.

The album won the 1994 Grammy in the category "Best Traditional Blues Album - or - Best Traditional Blues Recording"

Chart Positions

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1994	The Billboard 200	1
Year	Chart	Position
1995	Top Blues Albums	1

Track listing

1. "Blues Before Sunrise" (Leroy Carr) – 2:58
2. "Third Degree" (Eddie Boyd/Willie Dixon) – 5:07
3. "Reconsider Baby" (Lowell Fulson) – 3:20
4. "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Willie Dixon) – 3:16
5. "Five Long Years" (Eddie Boyd) – 4:47
6. "I'm Tore Down" (Sonny Thompson) – 3:02
7. "How Long Blues" (Leroy Carr) – 3:09
8. "Goin' Away Baby" (Lane) – 4:00
9. "Blues Leave Me Alone" (Lane) – 3:36
10. "Sinner's Prayer" (Lowell Fulson/Glenn) – 3:20
11. "Motherless Child" (Traditional) – 2:57
12. "It Hurts Me Too" (Elmore James) – 3:17
13. "Someday after a While" (Freddie King/Sonny Thompson) – 4:27
14. "Standin' Round Crying" (McKinley Morganfield) – 3:39
15. "Driftin'" (Brown/Johnny Moore/Williams) (The Drifters) – 3:10
16. "Groaning The Blues" (Willie Dixon) – 6:05

Personnel

• Eric Clapton - Guitar and vocals
• Dave Bronze - Bass guitar
• Jim Keltner - Drums
• Andy Fairweather-Low - Guitar
• Jerry Portnoy - Harmonica
• Chris Stainton - Keyboards
• Roddy Lorimer - Trumpet
• Simon Clarke - Baritone Sax
• Tim Sanders - Tenor Sax
• Richie Hayward - percussion on "How Long Blues"

Preceded by II by Boyz II Men

Billboard 200 number-one album October 1 - October 7, 1994

Succeeded by Monster by R.E.M.

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