| Back Home | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Eric Clapton |
| Cover: | Back home cover.jpg |
| Released: | 29 August 2005 |
| Recorded: | 2004–05 |
| Studio: | The Town House, London, Olympic Studios, London and Los Angeles |
| Genre: | Blues rock, reggae, folk rock |
| Length: | 60:17 |
| Label: | Duck/Reprise |
| Producer: | Eric Clapton, Simon Climie |
| Prev Title: | Me and Mr. Johnson |
| Prev Year: | 2004 |
| Next Title: | The Road to Escondido |
| Next Year: | 2006 |
Back Home is the seventeenth solo studio album by Eric Clapton. It was released 29 August 2005 internationally and a day later in the U.S. It is his first album containing new, original material since Reptile (2001), as the previous release Me and Mr. Johnson is an album of song covers of Robert Johnson.
"Say What You Will" is a song that Clapton offered to the Japanese musical group SMAP.
Back Home was met with "mixed or average" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 52 based on 10 reviews.
The special edition DualDisc format of the album features the whole album in surround sound, an interview with Clapton, and five selections from the album played live in the studio. This special package also featured four exclusive guitar picks which display "Back Home" and Clapton's signature on them. The picks came in violet, blue, red and grey.
Alan Douglas and Mick Guzauski (engineer) won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for the album.
Back Home was Clapton's first studio album released after the death of his close friend George Harrison in November 2001. Clapton covered Harrison's song "Love Comes to Everyone" from his 1979 self-titled album as tribute. Clapton had played the guitar introduction on the original version. In Japan during the tour of George Harrison with Eric Clapton and his band, the song was played but only once, the first night (1 December 1991, Yokohama Arena).
| Chart (2005) | Peak position | |
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| European Top 100 Albums (IFPI)[1] | 3 | |
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| Greek Album (IFPI)[2] | 6 | |
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| Japanese Albums (Oricon)[3] | 4 | |
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| UK Physical Albums (OCC)[4] | 19 | |
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| US Top Internet Albums (Billboard)[5] | 13 |
| Chart (2005) | Peak position | |
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| Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[6] | 165 | |
| Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[7] | 98 | |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[8] | 141 | |
| Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[9] | 95 | |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[10] | 174 |