Back Home (Eric Clapton album)


Back Home is the seventeenth solo studio album by Eric Clapton. It was released 29 August 2005 internationally and a day later in the U.S. It is his first album containing new, original material since Reptile, as the previous release Me and Mr. Johnson is an album of song covers of Robert Johnson.
"Say What You Will" is a song that Clapton offered to the Japanese musical group SMAP.

Track listing

  1. "So Tired" – 4:47
  2. "Say What You Will" – 4:35
  3. "I'm Going Left" – 4:03
  4. "Love Don't Love Nobody" – 7:13
  5. "Revolution" – 5:00
  6. "Love Comes to Everyone" – 4:35
  7. "Lost and Found" – 5:21
  8. "Piece of My Heart" – 4:22
  9. "One Day" – 5:20
  10. "One Track Mind" – 5:04
  11. "Run Home to Me" – 6:18
  12. "Back Home" – 3:33

    DualDisc version

The special edition DualDisc format of the album features the whole album in surround sound, an interview with Clapton, and five selections from the album played live in the studio. This special package also featured four exclusive guitar picks which display "Back Home" and Clapton's signature on them. The picks came in violet, blue, red and grey.

Personnel

Alan Douglas and Mick Guzauski won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for the album.

George Harrison tribute

Back Home was the first studio album released since the death of his good friend, George Harrison in November 2001. The previous studio album being entirely composed of songs by Robert Johnson, Eric Clapton covered the George Harrison song "Love Comes to Everyone" from his 1979 self-titled album as tribute to his late friend. Clapton had played the guitar introduction on the original version. In Japan during the tour of George Harrison with Eric Clapton and his band, the song was played but only once, the first night.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications