Back Home (Eric Clapton album)

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.

Back Home
Studio album by Eric Clapton
Released	29 August 2005
Recorded	2004–05 at 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.

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]

Track listing

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

Reception

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 the first studio album released since the death of his good friend, George Harrison in November 2001. The previous studio album being entirely composed of songs by Robert Johnson, Eric Clapton covered the George Harrison song "Love Comes to Everyone" from his 1979 self-titled album as tribute to his late friend. 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

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

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Denmark (IFPI Denmark)[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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