Eric Clapton - Lady In The Balcony: Lockdown Sessions

Like many other fellow musicians, Eric Clapton had to cancel several concerts last year and this year due to the Corona Pandemic and the Lockdown.Still, to give his fans something to look forward to, the British singer and guitarist instead met up with his band, bassist and backing vocalist Nathan East, drummer Steve Gadd and keyboardist Chris Stainton, at Cowdray House in West Sussex, England, to record what was originally planned as a sort of sequel to his hit 1992 album "MTV Unplugged": his new concert album "Lady In The Balcony: Lockdown Sessions".For this intimate gig, only the participants themselves were present while the cameras and recording equipment were rolling.The band recorded 17 songs for the record, acoustic interpretations of their own songs and a number of other numbers from blues, rock and country. Included are Clapton originals like "Layla" and "Tears in Heaven", "After Midnight", "Bell Bottom Blues", "Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out" and "Key To The Highway", blues standards like "Rock Me Baby" and cover versions of songs that have influenced Mr. "Slowhand" throughout his career, for example the Feetwood Mac songs "Black Magic Woman" and "Man Of The World from the Peter Green era". The full tracklisting of "Lady In The Balcony: Lockdown Sessions" can be found below.The whole thing was recorded under the direction of Clapton's longtime Grammy Award-winning producer Russ Titelman (James Taylor, George Harrison, Brian Wilson, Randy Newman, Rickie Lee Jones), who had already produced the "MTV Unplugged"