#547 :: LIVE Blues Recording :: Crossroads Revisited with Eric Clapton

The Blues Room #547

Wednesday 27 July 2016 

9pm-10pm, FreeFM89.0, 

http://player.wizz.co.nz/freefm89/,

Hamilton, NZ.

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Nearly four hours of live performances from Eric Clapton's acclaimed Crossroads Guitar Festival are coming to CD for the first time. This new 3 disc collection coming out now on Rhino will feature 41 tracks of landmark performances from all four Crossroads Guitar Festivals, which were held in 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013.

Founded in 2004 by the legendary guitarist, Eric Clapton, the Crossroads Guitar Festival has given fans an opportunity to witness truly historic performances by some of the world's greatest guitarists. While fans have been able to relive those magical moments thanks to a series of successful DVD and Blu-ray compilations, only a few of those performances have made their way to CD.

A veritable "Who's Who" of guitar music can be heard on this set, including Clapton, Jeff Beck, Gary Clark Jr., Robert Cray, Billy F Gibbons, Vince Gill, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, John Mayer, Carlos Santana, Joe Walsh, Ronnie Wood, and Jimmie Vaughn, just to name a few. Naturally, the all-star jams deliver some of the collection s most unforgettable moments.

Held every three years since 2004, the Crossroads Guitar Festival raises funds for the Crossroads Centre in Antigua, a treatment and education facility that Clapton founded in 1998 to help people suffering from chemical dependency.

Nate has selected some of his favorite performances from Crossroads festivals, including a tune by Taj Mahala nd Keb Mo which wasn't included on the 3 CD release. Enjoy!

1. Rock Me Baby – Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, B.B. King & Jimmie Vaughan [2004]

2. Drums Of Passion (Jingo) – Carlos Santana with Eric Clapton [2004]

3. Hell At Home – Sonny Landreth with Eric Clapton [2007]

4. Mas Y Mas – Los Lobos [2007]

5. Lay Down Sally – Vince Gill with Sheryl Crow, Keb’ Mo’, Albert Lee, James Burton & Earl Klugh [2010]

6. Five Long Years – Buddy Guy with Jonny Lang & Ronnie Wood [2010]

7. Born Under A Bad Sign – Booker T. with Steve Cropper, Keb’ Mo’, Blake Mills, Matt “Guitar” Murphy & Albert Lee [2013]

8. Please Come Home – Gary Clark Jr. [2013]

9. Diving Duck Blues - Taj Mahal and Keb Mo [2013]

More Highlights From Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013 (#417)

The Blues Room #417, 15 January 2014

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Heres some more highlights from Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013. If you haven't bought your copy of the CDs or DVDs yet please do. They are so worth it! I guess they're the next best thing if you weren't able to make it there in person!!!

1. Doyle Bramhall II with Gary Clark Jr. - She's Alright

2. Earl Klugh - This Time

3. Kurt Rosenwinkel with Eric Clapton - Big Road Blues

4. John Mayer with Keith Urban - Don't Let Me Down

5. Buddy Guy with Robert Randolph & Quinn Sullivan - Damn Right, I've

Got the Blues

6. Jimmie Vaughan - Ooh-Ooh-Ooh

7. Taj Mahal with Keb' Mo' - Walkin' Blues

8. Gary Clark Jr. - Please Come Home

9. Eric Clapton with Keith Richards - Key to the Highway

Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013, Day One Highlights (#416)

The Blues Room #416, 8 January 2014

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Is Eric Clapton God when it comes to blues guitar or an unoriginal serial borrower as pointed out by one reviewer (link). Well who cares! The man continues being Savior for many at Crossroads Center Antigua who have drug and alcohol addictions and his Crossroads Guitar Festival helps make this happen. This week and next week on The Blues Room I'll spin some of my favorite highlights from the 2013 Guitar festival which took place over two days in New York City. Be sure to pick up a copy of the two DVD/soundtrack to this great guitar festival, its well worth it it! Enjoy. 

1. Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven

2. Eric Clapton with Andy Fairweather Low - Spider Jiving

3. Eric Clapton with Vince Gill - Lay Down Sally

4. Booker T. with Steve Cropper - Time Is Tight

5. Booker T. with Steve Cropper & Others - Born Under a Bad Sign

6. Booker T. with Steve Cropper, Keb' Mo', Blake Mills, Matt 'Guitar'

Murphy & Albert Lee - Green Onions

7. The Robert Cray Band - Great Big Old House

8. The Robert Cray Band with B.B. King, Eric Clapton & Jimmie Vaughan

- Everyday I Have the Blues

9. Sonny Landreth - Next of Kindred Spirit

10. Doyle Bramhall II with Alice Smith - Cry

TBR#377 C is for CLAPTON

Heres another installment into our ABCs of the Blues series. This time its blues, British blues, brought to you by the letter C and by the guitars of Eric Clapton. 

Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" behind Jimi Hendrix and fourth in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.

Episode 377, 10 April 2013

1. The Yardbirds - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl

2. The Yardbirds - Smokestack Lightening

3. Cream - Strange Brew

4. Cream - Born Under A Bad Sign

5. Blind Faith - Sleeping In The Ground

6. Eric Clapton with Jimmy Page - Dragging My Tail

7. Jimmy Rogers with Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton - Boom Boom

8. Eric Clapton with BB King - Three O'Clock Blues

9. Wynton Marsalis with Eric Clapton - Forty-Four

10. Eric Clapton - Still Got The Blues

11. Eric Clapton - Goodnight Irene

12. Eric Clapton - Your One And Only Man

13. Bonnie Raitt - Ain't Gonna Let You Go

14. Watermelon Slim - Blue Freightliner 

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