Released July 1974
Recorded April–May 1974 at Criteria Recording Studios, Miami, Florida
Genre Blues-rock
Length 43:21
2:22:5 (deluxe edition)
Label RSO
Producer Tom Dowd
MP3@192KBPS, 195MB.
REVIEW:
461 Ocean Boulevard is a 1974 album by blues rock musician Eric Clapton.
In creating his first album after quitting heroin and his second after the
dissolution of Derek & the Dominos, Clapton was under pressure during
the recording of 461 Ocean Boulevard, but the album received rave
reviews upon its release.
In 2004 a remastered two-disc "deluxe edition" of 461 Ocean Boulevard was released. The second disc included in the packaging features a live concert which was recorded at Hammersmith Concert Hall (formerly the Hammersmith Odeon). The first disc also has a few new added tracks which are various studio jam sessions.
The title of the album was the address of a house on Golden Beach in Miami, Clapton was living in at the time. The house is also the one featured on the cover. In 2003, the album was ranked number 409 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Deluxe edition
Disc one
The Original Album
"Motherless Children" (Traditional, arranged by Clapton/Radle)
"Give Me Strength" (Clapton)
"Willie and the Hand Jive" (Johnny Otis)
"Get Ready" (Clapton/Elliman)
"I Shot the Sheriff" (Marley)
"I Can't Hold Out" (James)
"Please Be With Me" (Boyer)
"Let It Grow" (Clapton)
"Steady Rollin' Man" (Johnson)
"Mainline Florida" (Terry)
Bonus Tracks
"Walkin' Down the Road" (Musgrave & Levine)
"Ain't That Loving You" (Reed)
"Meet Me (Down At The Bottom)" (Dixon)
"Eric After Hours Blues" (Clapton)
"B-Minor Jam" (Clapton)
Disc two
All songs recorded live December 4 and December 5, 1974 at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, England.
"Smile" (Chaplin, Parsons, & Phillips)
"Let It Grow" (Clapton)
"Can't Find My Way Home" (Steve Winwood)
"I Shot The Sheriff" (Marley)
"Tell The Truth" (Clapton/Bobby Whitlock)
"The Sky Is Crying/Have You Ever Loved A Woman/Rambling On My Mind" (James, Robinson, & Lewis/Billy Myles/Johnson)
"Little Wing" (Hendrix)
"Singin' The Blues" (McCreary)
"Badge" (Clapton, George Harrison)
"Layla" (Clapton/Jim Gordon)
"Let It Rain" (Bonnie Bramlett/Clapton)
Personnel
Eric Clapton - Dobro, guitar, vocals, arranger
Yvonne Elliman - vocals, background vocals
Albhy Galuten - organ, synthesizer, piano, clavichord, electric piano
Tom Bernfeld - vocals, background vocals
Dick Sims - keyboards
George Terry - guitar, background vocals
Carl Radle - bass, arranger
Jamie Oldaker - percussion & drums
Al Jackson, Jr. - drums
Jim Fox - drums
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