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.
The song, "Say What You Will," was used by the Japanese musical group SMAP.
Critical reception
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.
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Year-end charts
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|bgcolor="#efefef"|Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)
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|bgcolor="#efefef"|Danish Albums (Hitlisten)
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|bgcolor="#efefef"|German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)
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|bgcolor="#efefef"|Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)
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|bgcolor="#efefef"|Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)
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