{"id":43474,"date":"2014-01-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/old-sock\/"},"modified":"2014-01-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T00:00:00","slug":"old-sock","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/old-sock\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Sock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of words that can be used to describe Eric Clapton\u2019s latest release,\u00a0<em>Old Sock.<\/em>\u00a0Words such as comfortable, relaxed, and cruise control can all be used to describe the sound and feel of this album. <\/p>\n<p> Clapton does not over-reach or try to be overly creative. Instead he selects material he seems to enjoy and that fits where he is in life. While his guitar chops are still present; they do not dominate the album, but rather are used in support of his vocals, which are the centerpiece. It all ends up as an album that covers the middle ground well with no real lows or highs. <\/p>\n<p>As the title would suggest, the music takes you to a warm and safe place.   The old Leadbelly song, \u201cGoodnight Irene,\u201d is probably the best track. His voice moves the song away from its blues origins but some\u00a0slide guitar returns it back again. His cover of Ray Charles\u201d \u201cBorn To Lose\u201d has a little fire in it, while his mostly acoustic \u201cStill Got The Blues\u201d is a fine tribute to the late Gary Moore. \u201cFurther On Down The Road\u201d ends with one of the few classic Clapton guitar solos and is well-worth the wait.   <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, \u201cThe Folk Who Live On The Hill\u201d has a blandness to it, and \u201cGotta Get Over\u201d never really gets going. \u201cEvery Little Thing\u201d unfortunately comes complete with a children\u2019s choir, which is a bit out of tune.\u00a0  <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Old Sock<\/em>\u00a0is like a dinner wine; you savor it but it leaves no lasting impression. There is little doubt that Clapton is content with the album and I am okay with it as well. As Ricky Nelson once sang; \u201cYou can\u2019t please everyone, so you got to please yourself.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":31760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5887],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-43474","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-eric-clapton","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=43474"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=43474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}