I was a big fan of Eric Clapton in college. But he and I have not stayed on the same path as the years have passed, and now I have an instinctively negative reaction to him. This album, though, is really exceptional. It reminds me why I ever went to see him in concert. Also realized that Tears In Heaven and such weren’t just late-in-life softening… hearing “Let It Grow” made me realize he had those softer-side tendencies at the beginning too, I just wasn’t all that aware of them. Excellent album.