Eric Clapton
Me And Mr. Johnson

THE REVIEW

If blues is the devil's music, then blues is Robert Johnson. I hope the devil will help me write this review, just as he helped Robert write his repertoire, those 29 "cursed" songs that many great artists have reinterpreted throughout music history.

Listening to Clapton's "Me and Mr. Johnson" I took a moment to reflect, and for an instant, I thought that Mr. Johnson is not dead, he has returned to earth and recorded this album, together with Eric and his band, you can feel his presence in some way. For this album "slowhand" went through all the recording stages of Robert Johnson, thus creating an atmosphere worthy of a real Mississippi bluesman, it is astonishing how Clapton could "reincarnate" the father of American blues.

In this album we find 14 tracks of pure (and I say pure) blues, performed in an almost obsessive manner, in the smallest details, with artists of a certain "caliber" including the legendary, but what do I say legendary, almost "mythological keyboardist "Billy Preston" who passed away in 2005.

Critical note: too perfect, which is not just a merit, perhaps Mr. Johnson meant a slightly rougher, rawer blues, but an excellent interpretation. If Robert were still alive he would be proud of a son like Eric...

Giancarlo Andreacchio