Journeyman (album)

Journeyman
Studio album by Eric Clapton
Released	7 November 1989
Recorded	1989
Genre	Rock, blues rock, soft rock, hard rock
Length	56:35
Label	Duck / Reprise
Producer	Russ Titelman
Eric Clapton chronology
Crossroads (1988) Journeyman (1989) 24 Nights (1991)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Chicago Tribune	[2]
Robert Christgau	B−[3]
Deseret News	(favourable)[4]
Los Angeles Times	[5]
Q	[6]
Rolling Stone	[7]

Journeyman is the eleventh studio album by blues/rock musician Eric Clapton, released in 1989.

The album was heralded as a return to form for Clapton, who had struggled with alcohol addiction in the mid-1980s and had recently found sobriety. Much of it has an electronic sound, mostly influenced by the 1980s rock scene, but it also includes blues songs like "Before You Accuse Me," "Running on Faith," and "Hard Times." The strongest single commercially from this album was "Bad Love," which earned him the 1990 Best Male Rock Vocal Performance Grammy Awards, and reached the No. 1 position on the Album Rock Chart. "Pretending" had also reached the No. 1 position on the Album Rock Chart the previous year, remaining at the top for five weeks ("Bad Love" had only stayed for three weeks).

While the album was only a moderate commercial success at the time, reaching number 16 on the Billboard 200 chart, it went on to become his first solo studio album to go double platinum. This is one of Eric Clapton's favourite albums.^[8]

Track listing

1. "Pretending" (Jerry Lynn Williams) – 4:48
2. "Anything for Your Love" (Williams) – 4:16
3. "Bad Love" (Eric Clapton, Mick Jones) – 5:11
4. "Running on Faith" (Williams) – 5:27
5. "Hard Times" (Ray Charles) – 3:00
6. "Hound Dog" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 2:26
7. "No Alibis" (Williams) – 5:32
8. "Run So Far" (George Harrison) – 4:06
9. "Old Love" (Clapton, Robert Cray) – 6:25
10. "Breaking Point" (Marty Grebb, Williams) – 5:37
11. "Lead Me On" (Cecil Womack, Linda Womack) – 5:52
12. "Before You Accuse Me" (Ellas McDaniel) – 3:55

Outtakes

1. "Forever" Unissued
2. "Don't Turn Your Back" Unissued
3. "Something About You" Unissued

Personnel

• Eric Clapton – guitar, vocals, dobro, design
• Nathan East – bass, background vocals
• Jim Keltner – percussion, drums, tambourine, drum programming
• Phil Collins – drums (on track 3), background & harmony vocals
• David Sanborn – alto saxophone
• Robert Cray – guitar (solo on "Old Love" and "Before You Accuse Me")
• Phil Palmer – guitar
• John Tropea – rhythm guitar
• George Harrison – guitar & harmony vocals (on track 8)
• Cecil Womack – acoustic guitar, vocals
• Jerry Lynn Williams – guitar, background & harmony vocals
• Gary Burton – vibraphone
• Jeff Bova – synthesizer programming, drum programming, synthesizer horns
• Jimmy Bralower – drum programming
• Alan Clark – synthesizer, keyboards, Hammond organ, sequencing
• Robbie Kondor – synthesizer, harmonica, keyboards, vocoder, drum programming
• Rob Mounsey – synthesizer
• Robby Kilgore – synthesizer
• Greg Phillinganes – synthesizer, piano, keyboards, background vocals
• Richard Tee – piano, Fender Rhodes
• Carole Steele – percussion, conga, tambourine
• Arif Mardin – arranger, string arrangements
• Linda Womack – vocals
• Daryl Hall – harmony vocals
• Tawatha Agee – background vocals
• Lani Groves – background vocals
• Chaka Khan – background vocals
• Tessa Niles – background vocals
• Vanessa Thomas – background vocals
• Hank Crawford – alto saxophone
• Ronnie Cuber – baritone saxophone
• David "Fathead" Newman – tenor saxophone
• Jon Faddis – trumpet
• Lew Soloff – trumpet
• Pino Palladino - bass (on track 3)

Production

• Produced by Russ Titelman
• Engineered by Larry Alexander, Steve "Barney" Chase, Ben Fowler (also assistant engineer), Michael O'Reilly, Dave O'Donnell, Jack Joseph Puig, Steve Rinkoff and Dave Wittman; assisted by Richard Arnold and UE Natasi
• Mixed by Gary Wright, Russ Titelman, Rob Eaton and Steve Chase
• Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, NYC

Singles performance

Year	Title	Chart positions		Album
		US Hot 100	US Mainstream Rock
1989	"Pretending"	55	1	Journeyman
1990	"Bad Love"	88	1	Journeyman
1990	"Before You Accuse Me"	–	9	Journeyman
1990	"No Alibis"	–	4	Journeyman
1990	"Run So Far"	–	40	Journeyman

Chart performance

Weekly charts Chart (1989–1990) Peak position bgcolor="#efefef" Australian Albums (ARIA)[9] 27 bgcolor="#efefef" Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[10] 29 Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[11] 7 Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[12] 10 bgcolor="#efefef" Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[13] 9 French Albums (SNEP)[14] 17 bgcolor="#efefef" German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[15] 16 Italian Albums (FIMI)[16] 11 Japanese Albums (Oricon)[17] 29 bgcolor="#efefef" New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[18] 43 bgcolor="#efefef" Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[19] 2 bgcolor="#efefef" Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[20] 3 bgcolor="#efefef" Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[21] 7 bgcolor="#efefef" UK Albums (OCC)[22] 2 bgcolor="#efefef" US Billboard 200[23] 16

Year-end charts Chart (1990) Position Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[24] 147 Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[25] 48 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[26] 36 Italian Albums (FIMI)[16] 38 Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[27] 8 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[28] 58 UK Albums (OCC)[29] 41 US Billboard 200[30] 24

Certifications

Region	Certification	Sales/shipments
Argentina (CAPIF)[31]	Gold	30,000^x
Canada (Music Canada)[32]	Platinum	100,000^^
France (SNEP)[33]	Gold	162,500[34]
Macao (IFPI Macao)[35]	Gold	15,000^*
Netherlands (NVPI)[36]	Gold	50,000^^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[37]	4× Platinum	60,000^^
Norway (IFPI Norway)[38]	Platinum	50,000^*
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[39]	Gold	50,000^^
Sweden (GLF)[40]	Gold	50,000^^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[41]	Gold	25,000^x
United States (RIAA)[42]	2× Platinum	2,698,130[43]
^*sales figures based on certification alone ^^shipments figures based on certification alone ^xunspecified figures based on certification alone

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