VA - Eric Clapton And Guests: Crossroads Revisited (2016) FLAC

Tracks:

CD1
01. Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin & Jimmie Vaughan - Sweet Home Chicago (5:26)
02. Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, B.B. King & Jimmie Vaughan - Rock Me Baby (6:10)
03. James Taylor With Joe Walsh - Steamroller (4:53)
04. Vince Gill With Jerry Douglas - What The Cowgirls Do (5:35)
05. J.J. Cale With Eric Clapton - After Midnight (4:44)
06. Doyle Bramhall II - Green Light Girl (5:20)
07. Sonny Landreth With Eric Clapton - Hell At Home (5:21)
08. John Mayer - City Love (4:55)
09. Joe Walsh - Funk #49 (3:28)
10. Carlos Santana With Eric Clapton - Drums Of Passion (7:38)
11. Jeff Beck - Cause We've Ended As Lovers (3:55)
12. Eric Clapton - Have You Ever Loved A Woman (13:47)
13. Eric Clapton - Layla (6:03)

CD2
01. Susan Tedeschi With The Derek Trucks Band - Little By Little (5:21)
02. The Robert Cray Band - Poor Johnny (5:54)
03. B.B. King With The Robert Cray Band, Jimmie Vaughan & Hubert Sumlin - Paying The Cost To Be The Boss (4:01)
04. Sheryl Crow With Eric Clapton, Vince Gill & Albert Lee - Tulsa Time (3:44)
05. Willie Nelson With Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill & Albert Lee - On The Road Again (2:13)
06. Eric Clapton - Isn't It A Pity (6:01)
07. John Mayer - Belief (5:58)
08. Los Lobos - Mas Y Mas (5:56)
09. Jeff Beck - Big Block (5:24)
10. Steve Winwood & Eric Clapton - Presence Of The Lord (5:18)
11. Eric Clapton - Cocaine (5:05)
12. ZZ Top - Waiting For The Bus-Jesus Just Left Chicago (7:21)
13. Gary Clark Jr. - Don't Owe You A Thang (3:43)
14. Gary Clark Jr. - Bright Lights (7:24)

CD3
01. Sheryl Crow With Eric Clapton, Doyle Bramhall II & Gary Clark Jr. - Our Love Is Fading (6:37)
02. Vince Gill With Sheryl Crow, Keb' Mo', Albert Lee, James Burton & Earl Klugh - Lay Down Sally (5:11)
03. Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band With Warren Haynes, David Hidalgo, Cesar Rosas & Chris Stainton - Space Captain (5:35)
04. Jeff Beck - Hammerhead (4:37)
05. Buddy Guy With Jonny Lang & Ronnie Wood - Five Long Years (6:37)
06. Doyle Bramhall II - Hear My Train A Comin' (3:23)
07. Steve Winwood & Eric Clapton - Dear Mr. Fantasy (7:08)
08. Booker T. With Steve Cropper, Keb' Mo', Blake Mills, Matt Guitar Murphy & Albert Lee - Born Under A Bad Sign (5:10)
09. The Robert Cray Band With B.B. King, Eric Clapton & Jimmie Vaughan - Everyday I Have The Blues (4:37)
10. Gary Clark Jr. - Please Come Home (6:33)
11. Vince Gill With Keith Urban & Albert Lee - Tumbling Dice (5:11)
12. Eric Clapton - I Shot The Sheriff (8:25)
13. Eric Clapton - Crossroads (4:51)

Eric Clapton instituted the Crossroads Guitar Festival in 1999 as a way to raise funds for his Crossroads Centre Antigua, a rehab facility he founded in 1998. Over the next 14 years, the Crossroads Guitar Festival became a semi-regular thing, always featuring a Slowhand-curated crop of guitarists. Barring the 1999 fest, each of these years -- 2004, 2007, 2010, and 2013 -- were recorded and released as CDs and DVDs, which makes the 2016 triple-disc Crossroads Revisited: Selections from the Crossroads Guitar Festivals a sampler of these particular records. Although Jeff Beck relies heavily on his 1989 album Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop, there are no surprises either in artists or song selections, although the execution can occasionally take a left turn; ZZ Top's heavy, churning "Waiting for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago" is entirely instrumental. Time has shifted the tenor of some of the selections, too: B.B. King, Hubert Sumlin, and J.J. Cale have all passed since their appearances at Crossroads, so their presence carries some poignancy. Generally, though, this is big, bright shiny stadium guitar music, a proud showcase for chops whose interest relies entirely on how much the listener likes blues-based rock guitar solos. There are some exceptions to this rule -- Sheryl Crow was here to sing country songs in 2010, while 2004 saw Vince Gill and Jerry Douglas stop by and Joe Walsh playing "Steam Roller" with James Taylor, but this is a place where John Mayer and Gary Clark, Jr. are the new guns -- although this festival was designed so that Albert Lee, Derek Trucks, Robert Cray, Beck, and Clapton himself could stretch out, which they do repeatedly. Not necessarily performances for the ages but solid all the same.