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No Reason to Cry is the fourth solo studio album by Eric Clapton, released by RSO Records on 27 August 1976. The album was recorded in Malibu and Los Angeles between December 1975 to May 1976. The record went silver in the U.K.
Eric's vocals on this album is his absolute best - torn, broken, longing, boozed up sandpaper vocals garnished with heart and honesty. All in all, "No Reason To Cry" is a star-studded, beautifully solid performed latin-blues-rockin' work of art, with an absolutely magical atmosphere.
No Reason to Cry fue uno de los álbumes más exitosos de Clapton a nivel internacional durante la década de 1970. Alcanzó el top 30 en siete países, llegando al top 10 en el Reino Unido y en los Países Bajos, donde alcanzaron los puestos ocho y nueve respectivamente.
Richard George Manuel (April 3, 1943 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as a pianist and one of three lead singers in the Band, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
Richard Manuel originally did King Harvest (Has Surely Come), Georgia on My Mind, The Shape I'm In, It Makes No Difference and other songs. Richard Manuel wrote Beautiful Thing, Tears of Rage and Whispering Pines.
Among his mid-period albums, Ocean Boulevard, Slowhand and Backless are the ones to own first. No Reason To Cry is an also-ran, something that disappears from the discussion boards after so many years but ripe for rediscovery--a kind of Planet Waves in the constellation of Clapton.
“Beautiful Thing,” coauthored by Manuel, is the most banal song on an album full of them. The Clapton-Danko collaboration, “All Our Past Times,” is salvaged by their vocal trade-offs and what...
