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Money and Cigarettes is the eighth solo studio album by Eric Clapton, recorded after his first rehabilitation from alcoholism. Produced by Clapton and Tom Dowd with, apart from Albert Lee, a new backing band of veteran session musicians including Donald "Duck" Dunn, Roger Hawkins, and Ry Cooder.
Feb 3, 2016 · Having just emerged from rehab for alcoholism, Eric Clapton says he named Money and Cigarettes – which was released in February 1983 – after "all I saw myself having left."
Feb 28, 2023 · The most inspired change was to bring in slide guitar maestro Ry Cooder. Clapton and Cooder clicked, especially on the album’s opening track, a version of Sleepy John Estes’ Everybody Oughta Make A Change.
"Money and Cigarettes" (two things which Clapton reminded himself to take as he left the house) sounds as though it was put together by a group of seasoned studio professionals. It is a well constructed, polished album by a veteran musician.
Egged on by a band of his peers (Ry Cooder gives him no more slack on guitar than Duane Allman did in Derek and the Dominos) and charged by the invigorating crack of Tom Dowd’s production, he...
Aug 27, 2014 · The backing band is his tightest group yet, with Ry Cooder, Duck Dunn, Roger Hawkins and a returning Albert Lee (now mostly on keyboards).
Money and Cigarettes is the eighth solo studio album by Eric Clapton, recorded after his first rehabilitation from alcoholism. Produced by Clapton and Tom Dowd with, apart from Albert Lee, a new backing band of veteran session musicians including Donald "Duck" Dunn, Roger Hawkins, and Ry Cooder.
