Media Reviews

Money and Cigarettes by Eric Clapton(1983)

I love the entire album and especially the rockin’ guitar interplays between Cooder and Clapton! In my opinion, The Shape You’re In is one of the most under-appreciated song ever recorded.

Imagine a band with Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder, Duck Dunn, Jim Keltner, Albert Lee. How could anything bad musically come of that?

I took my baby to see a show. She was telling me she didn’t want to go. I said, “Come on girl, what’s the matter with you?” But I could tell by the smell that she’d had a few.

Money and Cigarettes was Clapton’s eighth solo studio album and was only moderately successful commercially. It did reach top 20 chart positions in several countries though. Critics were lukewarm at the time which just goes to show, critics of art don’t know crap. You like what you like.

This was the first album Clapton made after coming to terms with his terrible drinking problem and going dry. After rehab Clapton formed a new band including his old guitarist Albert Lee and session pros bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn and drummer Roger Hawkins, also bringing in another guitarist Ry Cooder.

  • Eric Clapton – electric guitar, slide guitar, lead vocals
  • Ry Cooder – electric guitar, slide guitar
  • Albert Lee – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Peter Solley – Hammond organ
  • Donald Dunn – bass guitar
  • Roger Hawkins – drums
  • Chuck Kirkpatrick – backing vocals
  • John Sambataro – backing vocals


 


[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7vkMxw8PSo[/embedyt] [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFVXxxvkFiU[/embedyt]


Help me to help you

Thank you for taking time to use this free website. I hope you find the junk-free information here fun and useful? Please send me your comments and feedback.

Writing and maintaining the information in this manual is a lot of hard work. By sharing these pages with your friends, you help me to continue the effort.  You can easily share these pages to all your favorite social media sites via the shortcut buttons on the sidebar. You can also simply email the page link to your friends. Please share often.

The very best way to help me happens when you use the embedded links to buy things. Using a link is easy and free, yet it provides a great source of support for this site. The vendors I've chosen to link to have proven to be trustworthy and are the very best resources available. That is why I recommend them personally.

HomePreservationManual.com is the place to visit if you want information on

  • maintaining your home
  • how to improve air quality
  • ways to improve the real value of your home
  • what are the best housekeeping services
  • the problems with handymen services
  • how to plan and execute home renovation and home improvement projects
  • tips for spring cleaning; tidying up a messy house
  • and generally how to be a better homeowner.

Make sure you download your monthly maintenance checklist for this month.

Linking to this site

Do you want to link to anything on this site? Please do! Go right ahead. I appreciate it and am honored to be considered as a resource on your website. Always feel free to link to anything you find helpful. Of course, please never copy anything (everything is copyrighted and registered), but link away and thanks!

Thank you!

Copyright and permission to use information.

If you have questions or just want to say hi, please send me a note. If you are looking for help performing the work described and you are in the San Francisco area, go to HPS Palo Alto Inc.and request a free evaluation.

As a reminder, it is unlawful to make copies including cut and paste or especially in the form of making printouts for reuse. If you wish to make a print for personal use, I will happily grant you one-time permission if you will kindly send me a request in writing.

Thanks again!