461 Ocean Boulevard

Infobox Album |
Name = 461 Ocean Boulevard
Type = Album
Artist = Eric Clapton


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
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Ay69as34ba3rg link]
*Robert Christgau A [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Eric+clapton link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album?id=301088 link] |
Last album = "Rainbow Concert"
(1972)
This album = "461 Ocean Boulevard"
(1974)
Next album = "There's One in Every Crowd"
(1975)

"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.Fact|date=May 2008 On later pressings of the album and the Polygram CD, "Give Me Strength" was pulled because a songwriter claimed she was the composer and had not been credited (Clapton was originally listed as composer). It was replaced with the track "Better Make It Through Today", (dropped from the re-release) which was recorded in September 1974 and originally released on the "There's One in Every Crowd" album in April 1975.

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. RS500|409

Track listing

ide one

#"Motherless Children" (Traditional, arranged by Clapton, Carl Radle) - 4:53
#"Give Me Strength" (Clapton) - 2:54
#"Willie and the Hand Jive" (Johnny Otis) - 3:31
#"Get Ready" (Clapton/Elliman) - 3:47
#"I Shot the Sheriff" (Bob Marley) - 4:25

ide two

#"I Can't Hold Out" (Elmore James) - 4:14
#"Please Be With Me" (Boyer) - 3:26
#"Let It Grow" (Clapton) - 5:00
#"Steady Rollin' Man" (Robert Johnson) - 3:14
#"Mainline Florida" (Terry) - 4:04

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" (Winwood)
#"I Shot The Sheriff" (Marley)
#"Tell The Truth" (Clapton/Whitlock)
#"The Sky Is Crying/Have You Ever Loved A Woman/Rambling On My Mind" (James, Robinson, & Lewis/Myles/Johnson)
#"Little Wing" (Hendrix)
#"Singin' The Blues" (McCreary)
#"Badge" (Clapton, George Harrison)
#"Layla" (Clapton/Gordon)
#"Let It Rain" (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
*Karl Richardson - engineer
*Steve Klein - assistant engineer
*Bob Defrin - art direction
*David Gahr - photography

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