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January 21, 2013 | MP3 320 kbps ~ 362 MB | FLAC ~ 2 GB | Cover
Genre: anniversary edition, blues, remastered, rock
Eric Clapton gained the nickname “Slowhand” from Giorgio Gomelsky in the 1960s, once recalling that the impresario and Yardbirds manager coined it “as a good pun. He kept saying I was a fast player, so he put together the �slow handclap’ phrase [when a restless audience claps slowly hoping the performer will arrive onstage] into �Slowhand’ as a play on words.” Clapton fully embraced the name in 1977 as the title of his fifth studio album as a solo artist, following stints in the Yardbirds, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, and Derek & the Dominos.
Recorded for Robert Stigwood’s RSO Records, Slowhand yielded three hit singles and a No. 2 berth on the Billboard 200. One of Clapton’s most..








