Battle of the Bands Results: A one vote win and a shut out!

John Mayer must have been watching this Battle of the Bands from the sidelines as no one voted for his version of "After Midnight." It was a tight contest between Eric Clapton and the songwriter J.J. Cale. Mr. Cale edged out Mr. Slowhand 4 to 3.

Celebrating his victory we spin his tunes...

                                              Here they are together Eric and J.J with "After Midnight" and "Call Me the Breeze"….

                                                  "Magnolia"

"Cloudy Day"

                                               

I hope you enjoyed the battle and I will be back on the 15th with a brand new Battle of the Bands. In between I might blog about something so feel free to come back and visit.

Battle of the Bands 98: After Midnight

After Midnight and it will be 2019! Happy New Year's everyone. It is time for the first Battle of the Bands of 2019. The song is J.J Cale's "After Midnight." It's a New Year's Party lets go with three versions.


                                           

                                             Contender One: Eric Clapton

Contender Two: J.J. Cale

Contender Three: John Mayer Trio

Eric Clapton's rocking 1988 version, the original, or John Mayer's exploration who gets your vote? Vote for the version you like best in the comments. I will count them up and announce a winner before 2020. Hope you have a safe Holiday!

Slowhand at 35

No Eric Clapton is not 35, but his album  "Slowhand" turns 35 after being released on November 1, 1977. I've had it on cassette(belief it or not I still play those) and on CD but it is an album I can't up with..I have had multiple copies stolen, lost or destroyed. It only rivals The best of Deep Purple in that category.

The album starts out with a couple of Clapton's biggest concert numbers. The first one is a cover of J.J. Cale's "Cocaine." Below he performs the song live:

Next one is the beautiful "Wonderful Tonight" which is one of my favorite softer songs by Eric. Take a listen to the video below...

The third song was the only other song to chart. it was "Lay Down Sally."

The other songs include:

Next Time You See Her
We're All the Way
The Core
May You Never
Mean Old Frisco
Peaches and Diesel

Funny the longest song on the album is one of my favorites "The Core" at over 8 minutes there is little wonder why it didn't chart, but not every tune is supposed to be a hit...

If you are a fan of Eric Clapton you should check out this album. Anyway it is a new month and I will be back with something new soon....