Slowhand was recorded at Olympic Studios in southwest London in May 1977 and produced by Glyn Johns. It reached number 2 in the billboard charts and stayed there for five weeks. Overall, the album remained on the American album charts for 74 weeks

Slowhand features songs like Wonderful Tonight, Lay Down Sally and Cocaine - songs you still hear regularly on the radio and at Eric Clapton's concerts. So long after its release, it has a firm place in Clapton's oeuvre. The album features cover versions of songs by some of his favourite songwriters (JJ Cale, John Martyn, Don Williams, Arthur Crudup) side by side with original compositions by Eric Clapton

For all the radio fitness of numbers like "Laydown Sally" with his Country Groove, the bitter-sweet ballad "Wonderful Tonight" or its catchy J. J. Cale acquisition "Cocaine" delivered Eric Clapton with Slowhand a diversified like a substantial album. He let his country Inclination free run (Don Williams' "We're All The Way"), searched for his Blues roots ("Mean Old Frisco"), it let it instrumental melodious flow ("Peaches And Diesel")." (Good Times, February / March 2013)