Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.3 / 5.0

So-so:

Don't you wish that people would just review the album instead of making this about whether or not they like Eric Clapton (or, God help us, Bon Jovi)?

I know that a lot of listeners are prepared to receive this CD as the Second Coming. It is Eric Clapton playing Robert Johnson, after all. And others will be equally prepared to hate it on the same grounds.
But to me "Me And Mr Johnson" is neither very bad nor very good. Eric Clapton has brought in Muddy Waters' former harmonica player Jerry Portnoy, and... more info

Slowhand Blues With A Schuffle.:

Eric Clapton "Me And MR Johnson", is not going to be some commercial monster that is going to generate lots of airplay. What we have here is Eric Clapton giving 14 tunes from the Robert Johnson catalog, a fresh sounding honky-tonk rhythm feel, that makes for enjoyable listen. The rhythm section of Steve Gadd, Billy Preston, Nathan East, Andy Fairweather Low and Jerry Portnoy is tight, and they give you the feeling that you are sitting in a Bourbon street blues club rockin the night away. Clapton adds the... more info

Where god came from...:

In the beginning, there was Robert Johnson. And he was great. He wrote some of the tastiest blues songs ever put down on tape.

In the sixties, Eric Clapton rose to guitar divinity with John Mayall and a band named 'Cream. He became one of the most respected in a long line of guitar hero's.

Me and Mr. Johnson is Clapton's homage to his mentor. It is a reworking of the primitive original delta sound of Robert Johnson into the smoother interpretations of ERic Clapton. But the result is, in my opinion, the... more info

Tracks:

1. When You Got A Good Friend
2. Little Queen Of Spades
3. They're Red Hot
4. Me And The Devil Blues
5. Traveling Riverside Blues
6. Last Fair Deal Gone Down
7. Stop Breakin' Down Blues
8. Milkcow's Calf Blues
9. Kind Hearted Woman Blues
10. Come On In My Kitchen
11. If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
12. Love In Vain
13. 32-20 Blues
14. Hell Hound On My Trail

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