Eric Clapton ‘Kind Of Might Be Saying Goodbye’ With New Album

Tomorrow, famed guitarist Eric Clapton will release I Still Do, his 23rd solo studio album. The 12-track effort ends with a song titled “I’ll Be Seeing You” as Clapton is prepared for I Still Do to be his final recording with Slowhand telling the Chicago Tribune “Just in case I don’t cut another record, this is how I feel. I kind of might be saying goodbye.”

At age 71 Eric Clapton has already stopped touring. Sure, he’ll play a multi-night engagement in a city here and there, but he’s kept to his word that he’s done with the road. It’s not only the recent batch of musician deaths that has Slowhand thinking about the end of his incredible career. Clapton battled a bad case of eczema just as he settled in to record I Still Do. “It was a nightmare,” Eric told the Chicago Tribune. “I started thinking that it was psychosomatic, that maybe I was nervous. And maybe I was. Who knows? I had full-body eczema and it ended up my hands.” Clapton went on with the sessions and tomorrow the world we hear the resulting, Glyn Johns produced album.

Check out the video for I Still Do track “Spiral”: