Journeyman is the eleventh solo studio album by Eric Clapton. Heralded as a return to form for Clapton, who had struggled with alcohol addiction and recently found sobriety, the album has a 1980s electronic sound, but it also includes blues songs like "Before You Accuse Me", "Running on Faith", and "Hard Times." "Bad Love" was released as a single, reaching the No. 1 position on the Album Rock Chart in the United States, and being awarded a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance in 1990. "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).
The album reached number 2 on the UK Albums Chart and 16 on the US Billboard 200 chart, and it went on to become double platinum in the US. Clapton has said Journeyman is one of his favourite albums.
Eric Clapton – lead vocals, guitar Jeff Bova – synth horns (1), synth organ (1), synthesizer programming (2, 10), drum programming (10), sequenced bass (10), sequenced organ (10) Alan Clark – synth horns (1), Hammond organ (1, 4), sequenced bass (1), keyboards (3), synthesizers (8), synth strings (9) Greg Phillinganes – acoustic piano (1, 4, 5), keyboards (2, 7, 10), backing vocals (4, 7), synthesizers (8) Richard Tee – acoustic piano (2, 6, 7, 9, 12), Fender Rhodes (11) Robbie Kondor – keyboards (2), vocoder (2), bass harmonica (2), drum programming (2), synthesizers (6, 12), synthesizer programming (7, 8), synth piano (9) Rob Mounsey – synthesizers (8) Robbie Kilgore – synthesizers (11) Jerry Lynn Williams – guitar (1), backing and harmony vocals (1) Robert Cray – guitar (2, 6, 9, 12), guitar solo (9, 12) Phil Palmer – guitar (3) John Tropea – rhythm guitar (5) George Harrison – guitar (8), harmony vocals (8) Cecil Womack – acoustic guitar (11), backing vocals (11) Nathan East – bass (1, 2, 4–7, 9–12), backing vocals (1, 4, 7) Pino Palladino – bass (3) Darryl Jones – bass (8) Jimmy Bralower – drum programming (1, 7, 8) Jim Keltner – drums (2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12), percussion (6), programming (8, 10) tambourine (9) Phil Collins – drums (3), backing and harmony vocals (3) Steve Ferrone – drums (4, 5, 11), hi-hat (10) Carol Steele – congas (1), tambourine (4), percussion (7, 10, 11) Gary Burton – vibraphone (9) Hank Crawford – alto saxophone (5) David Sanborn – alto saxophone (10) Ronnie Cuber – baritone saxophone (5) David "Fathead" Newman – tenor saxophone (5) Jon Faddis – trumpet (5) Lew Soloff – trumpet (5) Arif Mardin – horn arrangements (5), string arrangements (11) Chaka Khan – backing vocals (1, 7) Katie Kissoon – backing vocals (3) Tessa Niles – backing vocals (3) Lani Groves – backing vocals (4, 7) Rev. Timothy Wright Washington Temple Concert Choir – choir (4) Roger Forrester and Friends – dog barking (6) Daryl Hall – harmony vocals (7) Tawatha Agee – backing vocals (10) Vaneese Thomas – backing vocals (10) Linda Womack – backing vocals (11)
