This album starts off with Cocaine, Wonderful Tonight, and Lay Down Sally from then it's all downhill. Nothing on the album is bad, but nothing even comes close to those three songs which all have catchy melodies. They each have a bit of a pop blues sound that is lost on the rest of the album which is more blues and a lot less pop (except for the instrumental Peaches and Diesel the last song which doesn't fit at all).
I'm not a big Clapton fan to begin with, but I think this album represents what is so difficult to do which is make 8-12 solid songs that blend well together on a record. As I said none of the songs are bad, but the first three are so different and the rest have no real spark that to me it's a throw away album for sure.
