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Clapton’s Unplugged became a staple of American CD collections. Released in August 1992, it would top the Billboard 200 for three weeks the following March, after it took home three Grammy Awards including Album of the Year, Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, and Best Rock Song for the album’s version of “Layla,” which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. (Clapton also won three more trophies that year, when the studio version “Tears in Heaven,” a No. 2 hit in 1992, was named Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.) When the dust settled, Unplugged sold some 26 million copies worldwide, far and away becoming Clapton’s best seller as well as the biggest live album of all time. Alongside Mariah Carey’s well-received EP from her 1992 performance on the series, MTV’s Unplugged was assured as a generational rite of passage for pop music fans.

Clapton’s Unplugged was remastered and expanded by Rhino in 2013 as a 2CD set that included six bonus tracks, including unused songs and alternate takes. This 2CD edition includes the standard set up to “Old Love,” followed by the unused “Worried Life Blues,” the Clapton original “Circus” and the first take of “My Father’s Eyes,” before closing with “Rollin’ and Tumblin’.” (Not included from the 2013 reissue are alternate first takes of “Runnin’ on Faith” and “Walkin’ Blues,” as well as a second take of “My Father’s Eyes.”) All but three of the songs (“Lonely Stranger,” “Worried Life Blues,” “Rollin’ and Tumblin'”) are preceded by Clapton’s unheard original commentary, recorded in an interview that took place shortly before the set itself.

Disc 1
01 Signe
02 Before You Accuse Me
03 Hey Hey
04 Tears In Heaven
05 Lonely Stranger
06 Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
07 Layla
08 Running On Faith
09 Walkin Blues

Disc 2
01 Alberta
02 San Francisco Bay Blues
03 Malted Milk
04 Old Love
05 Worried Life Blues
06 Circus
07 My Father’s Eyes (Take 1)
08 Rollin’ and Tumblin’