Eric Clapton: No Reason To Cry (RSO)
Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, October 1976
When Claptons good, hes as good as they get Layla stays in the "play" pile in every collection I have access to, Disraeli Gears sounds better to me now than it did when Sunshine Of Your Love/ SWLABR was on every greasy spoons jukebox, and 461 Ocean Boulevard has the shadowy seductiveness of a rock nocturne.
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