Back_Home_(Eric_Clapton_album)

<i>Back Home</i> (Eric Clapton album)

Back Home (Eric Clapton album)

2005 studio album by Eric Clapton

Back Home is the seventeenth solo studio album by Eric Clapton. It was released 29 August 2005 internationally and a day later in the U.S. It is his first album containing new, original material since Reptile (2001), as the previous release Me and Mr. Johnson is an album of song covers of Robert Johnson.

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Back Home

Studio album by

Eric Clapton

Released

29 August 2005

Recorded

2004–05

Studio

The Town House, London, Olympic Studios, London and Los Angeles

Genre

Blues rock, reggae, folk rock

Length

60:17

Label

Duck/Reprise

Producer

Eric Clapton, Simon Climie

Eric Clapton chronology

Me and Mr. Johnson
(2004)

Back Home
(2005)

The Road to Escondido
(2006)

"Say What You Will" is a song that Clapton offered to the Japanese musical group SMAP.^{[citation needed]}

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	52/100^[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
PopMatters	4/10^[3]
Q	^[4]
Rolling Stone	^[5]

Back Home was met with "mixed or average" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 52 based on 10 reviews.^[1]

Track listing

"So Tired" (Eric Clapton, Simon Climie) – 4:47
"Say What You Will" (Clapton, Climie) – 4:35
"I'm Going Left" (Stevie Wonder, Syreeta Wright) – 4:03
"Love Don't Love Nobody" (Joseph Jefferson, Charles Simmons) – 7:13
"Revolution" (Clapton, Climie) – 5:00
"Love Comes to Everyone" (George Harrison) – 4:35
"Lost and Found" (Doyle Bramhall II, Jeremy Stacey) – 5:21
"Piece of My Heart" (Bramhall, Susannah Melvoin, Mike Elizondo) – 4:22
"One Day" (Vince Gill, Beverly Darnall) – 5:20
"One Track Mind" (Clapton, Climie) – 5:04
"Run Home to Me" (Clapton, Climie) – 6:18
"Back Home" (Clapton) – 3:33

DualDisc version

The special edition DualDisc format of the album features the whole album in surround sound, an interview with Clapton, and five selections from the album played live in the studio. This special package also featured four exclusive guitar picks which display "Back Home" and Clapton's signature on them. The picks came in violet, blue, red and grey.

Personnel

Eric Clapton – lead vocals, guitar
Doyle Bramhall II – guitar
Andy Fairweather-Low – baritone guitar
Vince Gill – guitar
John Mayer – guitar
Robert Randolph – pedal steel guitar
Simon Climie – keyboards, programming
Toby Baker – keyboards
Billy Preston – keyboards, acoustic piano, Hammond organ
Chris Stainton – keyboards
Steve Winwood – keyboards
Nathan East – bass guitar
Paul Fakhourie – bass guitar
Pino Palladino – bass guitar
Steve Gadd – drums
Abe Laboriel Jr. – drums
Nicky Shaw – programming, percussion
Kick Horns – brass
Gavyn Wright – violin
Isobel Griffiths – strings
Nick Ingman – strings
Michelle John – backing vocals
Sharon White – backing vocals
Lawrence Johnson – backing vocals

Production

Eric Clapton – producer, cover design concept, liner notes
Simon Climie – producer, Pro Tools engineer
Alan Douglas – recording engineer
Bea Henkel – second assistant engineer
George Renwick – assistant engineer
Phillippe Rose – assistant engineer
Mick Guzauski – mix engineer
Tom Bender – mix assistant
Joel Evendeen – assistant Pro Tools
Jonathan Shakhovskoy – assistant Pro Tools
Bob Ludwig – mastering at Gateway Mastering (Portland, ME).
Lee Dickson – guitar technician
Debbie Johnson – session coordinator (Los Angeles).
Bushbranch – management
Catherine Roylance – art direction and design
Paul Higgens – illustration
Chris Sykes – main photography
Allan Titmuss – photography
Jill Furmanovsky – photography
Dunlop Management, Inc. – pick pack concept

Awards

Alan Douglas and Mick Guzauski (engineer) won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for the album.

George Harrison tribute

Back Home was Clapton's first studio album released after the death of his close friend George Harrison in November 2001. Clapton covered Harrison's song "Love Comes to Everyone" from his 1979 self-titled album as tribute. Clapton had played the guitar introduction on the original version. In Japan during the tour of George Harrison with Eric Clapton and his band, the song was played but only once, the first night (1 December 1991, Yokohama Arena).

Charts

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Weekly charts

Chart (2005)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)^[6]	9
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[7]	29
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[8]	11
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)^[9]	4
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)^[10]	9
European Top 100 Albums (IFPI)^[11]	3
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)^[12]	16
French Albums (SNEP)^[13]	16
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[14]	2
Greek Album (IFPI)^[15]	6
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)^[16]	22
Irish Albums (IRMA)^[17]	57
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[18]	4
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[19]	4
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)^[20]	6
Polish Albums (ZPAV)^[21]	14
Scottish Albums (OCC)^[22]	21
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)^[23]	10
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)^[24]	5
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[25]	4
UK Albums (OCC)^[26]	19
UK Physical Albums (OCC)^[27]	19
US Billboard 200^[28]	13
US Top Internet Albums (Billboard)^[29]	13

Year-end charts

Chart (2005)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)^[30]	165
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)^[31]	98
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[32]	141
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)^[33]	95
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[34]	174

Certifications

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Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)^[35]	Gold	20,000^{^}
Greece (IFPI Greece)^[15]	Gold	10,000^{^}
Italy (FIMI)^[36]	Gold	40,000^*
Japan (RIAJ)^[37]	Gold	195,000^[38]
Netherlands (NVPI)^[39]	Gold	40,000^{^}
Spain (PROMUSICAE)^[40]	Gold	50,000^{^}
Sweden (GLF)^[41]	Gold	30,000^{^}
United States (RIAA)^[42]	Gold	680,000^[43]
^* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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