24 Nights
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24 Nights
- Artist: Eric Clapton
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- Release Date: October 08, 1991
- Total Time: 51:44
- Type: Live
- Genre: Rock
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Eric Clapton, who had not released a live album since 1980, had several good reasons to release one in the early '90s. For one thing, his spare backup band of keyboardist Greg Phillinganes, bassist Nathan East, and drummer Steve Ferrone was his best live unit ever, and its powerful live versions of Cream classics like "White Room" and "Sunshine of Your Love" deserved to be documented. For another, since 1987 Clapton had been playing an annual series of concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London, putting together various special shows (blues nights, orchestral nights, etc.). 24 Nights, a double album, was culled from two years of such shows, 1990 and 1991, and it demonstrated the breadth of Clapton's work, from his hot regular band to assemblages of bluesmen like Buddy Guy and Robert Cray to examples of his soundtrack work with an orchestra led by Michael Kamen. The result was an album that came across as a lavishly constructed retrospective and a testament to Clapton's musical stature. But it made little impact upon release (though it quickly went gold), perhaps because events overcame it -- three months later, Clapton's elegy for his baby son, "Tears in Heaven," was all over the radio, and a few months after that he was redefining himself on MTV Unplugged -- a live show as austere as 24 Nights was grand. Still, it would be hard to find a more thorough demonstration of Clapton's abilities than the one presented here. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi| 24 Melodien, die Man nie Vergisst: Neue Folge (Album by Klaus Wunderlich) | |
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| Live album by Eric Clapton | ||||
| Released | October 8, 1991 | |||
| Recorded | January-February 1990 February-March 1991 The Royal Albert Hall, London, England |
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| Genre | Rock, Blues | |||
| Length | 52:43 (CD 1) 52:40 (CD 2) |
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| Label | Duck / Reprise | |||
| Producer | Russ Titelman | |||
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24 Nights is a live album by Eric Clapton, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England in 1990 and 1991. It was released on October 8, 1991. The album is a "best of" from the 42 concerts Eric Clapton did at the Royal Albert Hall in those two years. Clapton set a new record by playing a run of 24 nights at the London Royal Albert Hall between February 5 and March 9, 1991 following an 18 night run in 1990. Clapton reportedly was not satisfied with the 1990 concert recordings and delayed the release of a CD until after the "24 Nights" of the 1991 dates.[3]
These concerts were performed with 4 different instrumental formations, 4-piece, blues, 9-piece and orchestra nights, the last featuring the National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Michael Kamen.
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Track listing (CD)
Disc One
- "Badge" (Eric Clapton/George Harrison) – 6:51
- "Running On Faith" (Jerry Lynn Williams) – 6:49
- "White Room" (Jack Bruce/Pete Brown) – 6:10
- "Sunshine Of Your Love" (Bruce/Brown/Clapton) – 9:11
- "Watch Yourself" (Buddy Guy) – 5:39
- "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" (Billy Myles) – 6:52
- "Worried Life Blues" (Big Maceo Merriweather) – 5:28
- "Hoodoo Man" (Amos "Junior" Wells) – 5:41
Disc Two
- "Pretending" (Williams) – 7:08
- "Bad Love" (Clapton/Mick Jones) – 6:25
- "Old Love" (Clapton/Robert Cray) – 13:01
- "Wonderful Tonight" (Clapton) – 9:11
- "Bell Bottom Blues" (Clapton) – 6:39
- "Hard Times" (Ray Charles) – 3:45
- "Edge Of Darkness" (Clapton/Michael Kamen) – 6:30
Track listing (DVD)
- "Running On Faith" (6:49)
- "White Room" (6:10)
- "Sunshine Of Your Love" (9:11)
- "Watch Yourself" (5:39)
- "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" (6:52)
- "Worried Life Blues" (5:28)
- "Pretending" (7:08)
- "Bad Love" (6:25)
- "Old Love" (13:01)
- "Wonderful Tonight" (9:11)
- "Bell Bottom Blues" (6:39)
- "Hard Times" (3:45)
- "Edge Of Darkness" (6:30)
Recording dates
- 24/01/1990 – 4-piece : "Running On Faith", "White Room" and "Sunshine of Your Love".
- 05/02/1990 – Blues Band : "Worried Life Blues", "Watch Yourself" and "Have You Ever Loved a Woman".
- 09/02/1990 – Orchestra : "Bell Bottom Blues" and "Hard Times".
- 10/02/1991 – 4-piece : "Badge".
- 18/02/1991 – 9-piece : "Pretending", "Bad Love", "Old Love" and "Wonderful Tonight". "No Alibis", "I Shot The Sheriff" and "Cocaine" released on various CD singles of "Wonderful Tonight".
- The versions of "Old Love", "Wonderful Tonight" and "Pretending" (2nd solo only) on the "24 Nights" video are different from their album counterparts, but they were not taken from the previous night's show. They may even have been taken the year before.
- 28/02/1991 – Blues Band : "Hoodoo Man".
- 08/03/1991 – Orchestra : "Edge of Darkness".
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