The Music Box's John Metzger felt that Clapton's appearance on Saturday Night Live to promote the album was more powerful than From the Cradle and that the album had nothing that hadn't been done before on it. Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly felt that the recordings were 'flawless' but were rather boring, especially when compared to the excitement of Cream's live version of ' Spoonful'. The title actually comes from the last line of a four-line poem written by Clapton in his own handwriting (which he never set to music), printed on the second page of the CD booklet: 'All along this path I tread / My heart betrays my weary head / with nothing but my love to save / from the cradle to the grave.' Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic feels that the album is almost perfect and that the only thing bad about the album is Clapton's singing, which merely imitates the original recordings and sometimes can't pull it off. Cale, The Road to Escondido.Ĭritical reception Professional ratings Review scoresįrom the Cradle has prompted a wide range of critical response.

King a tribute to Robert Johnson, Me and Mr. He would subsequently record Riding with the King with B.B. A blues cover album and Clapton's follow-up to his successful 1992 live album, Unplugged, it is his only UK number-one album to date.Īlthough he had long been associated with the blues, From the Cradle was Clapton's first attempt at an all-blues album. Blues, electric blues, British blues, soul bluesĭerek and the Dominos Live at the Fillmoreįrom the Cradle is the twelfth solo studio album by Eric Clapton released on 13 September 1994 by Warner Bros.

Cradle to cradle ted talk