# Top 6@6 Week #34 Headliner Poll: Post Your 6 Favorite Tracks By Eric Clapton Solo

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**Created:** [December 10, 2002, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-34-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-eric-clapton-solo/141678 "2002-12-10T02:01:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-34-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-eric-clapton-solo/141678/21 "2002-12-12T01:45:43Z")

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1. Double Trouble
2. Shape You’re In
3. Further on Up the Road
4. Sign Language
5. Lay Down Sally
6. Tearing Us Apart

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**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-34-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-eric-clapton-solo/141678/22 "2002-12-12T03:58:22Z")

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After Midnight  
Let it Grow  
Cocaine  
Lay Down Sally  
I Shot the Sheriff  
San Francisco Bay Blues (from Unplugged)

BTW, I thought Motherless Child was a Richie Havens tune, was Clapton’s a remake or something?

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**Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-34-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-eric-clapton-solo/141678/23 "2002-12-15T15:27:38Z")

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1. Lay Down Sally
2. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
3. Running on Faith
4. Cocaine
5. Wonderful Tonight
6. Layla (unplugged)

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**Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-34-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-eric-clapton-solo/141678/24 "2002-12-16T09:05:03Z")

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1. Lay Down Sally
2. After Midnight
3. Wonderful Tonight
4. She’s Waiting
5. Motherless Children
6. Let It Rain

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**Author:** ![da\_pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ba0ec/32.png) [@da\_pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/da_pope)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-34-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-eric-clapton-solo/141678/25 "2002-12-17T03:34:21Z")

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> \*Originally posted by RexDart \*  
> \*\*BTW, I thought Motherless Child was a Richie Havens tune, was Clapton’s a remake or something? \*\*

AFAIK, Motherless Child **ren** is written by Clapton. It was also used as the theme for a short lived network TV series “Not Necessarily the News” which was (I believe) a version of the britcom “Not the Nine 'O Clock News” Truly outlandish slide work, it’s catchy and fun, yet dark and broodish at the same time.

“Father will do, the best he can, when your mother is dead, lord.”

**upon review it appears the song was actually written by [Blind Willie Johnson and the Rev. Gary Davis](http://users.rcn.com/thomst/motherlesschildren.html)**

so i suppose richie could have recorded it as well. so nevermind.

damn this here interweb thingie, damn it to hell!

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