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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."
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...
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.
Subsequently slide guitar ace Ry Cooder and the respected rhythm section of bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn and drummer Roger Hawkins were brought in for the sessions which, like "Another Ticket" were produced by Tom Dowd.
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).
"I've still got something left to say," Clapton sings on "Ain't Going Down," and you don't have to take his word for it: The work of an A-list blues band (that's Ry Cooder doubling on guitar), Money and Cigarettes finds Slowhand returning from a stint in rehab as charged as ever.
