Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies

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Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies
Compilation album by Eric Clapton

Publication
(s)

April 1996

Label (s) Polydor

Format (s)

CD , MC , digital

Genre (s)

Rock , blues rock

Title (number)

35

running time

266: 55

chronology
The Cream of Clapton
(1995)
Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies Pilgrim
(1998)

Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies is a box-set compilation album by British rock musician Eric Clapton . It was released under the Polydor label in April 1996. The album contains live recordings from 1974 to 1978.

Reception and awards

Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine noted that this album was more for "collectors", but also contained "a little gold". Overall, he awarded three out of five possible evaluation units for inclusion. The album peaked at number 137 on the Billboard 200 .

Track list

CD 1
  1. Walkin 'Down the Road (Paul Levine, Alan Musgrove) - 5:15
  2. Have You Ever Loved a Woman ( Billy Myles ) - 7:41
  3. Willie & the Hand Jive / Get Ready ( Johnny Otis / Clapton, Yvonne Elliman ) - 11:42
  4. Can't Find My Way Home ( Steve Winwood ) - 5:19
  5. Driftin 'Blues / Ramblin' on My Mind (Johnny Moore, Charles Brown, Eddie Williams, Robert Johnson ) - 11:36
  6. Presence of the Lord (Clapton) - 8:48
  7. Rambling on My Mind / Have You Ever Loved a Woman (Johnson, Myles) - 8:16
  8. Little Wing ( Jimi Hendrix ) - 6:43
  9. The Sky Is Crying / Have You Ever Loved a Woman / Rambling on My Mind ( Elmore James , Myles, Johnson) - 7:39
CD 2
  1. Layla (Clapton, Jim Gordon) - 5:38
  2. Further on Up the Road (Joe Medwick, Don Robey ) - 4:31
  3. I Shot the Sheriff ( Bob Marley ) - 10:21
  4. Badge (Clapton, George Harrison ) - 10:42
  5. Driftin 'Blues (Moore-Brown-Williams) - 6:58
  6. Eyesight to the Blind / Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad? (Sonny Boy Williamson, Clapton, Bobby Whitlock ) - 24:19
CD 3
  1. Tell the Truth (Clapton, Whitlock) - 8:57
  2. Knockin 'on Heaven's Door ( Bob Dylan ) - 5:20
  3. Stormy Monday ( T-Bone Walker ) - 13:02
  4. Lay Down Sally (Clapton, Marcy Levy ) - 5:23
  5. The Core (Clapton, Levy) - 9:13
  6. We're All the Way ( Don Williams ) - 2:55
  7. Cocaine ( JJ Cale ) - 6:37
  8. Goin 'Down Slow / Rambling on My Mind ( St. Louis Jimmy Oden ) - 13:45
  9. Mean Old Frisco ( Arthur Crudup ) - 5:53
CD 4
  1. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever (Ivy Jo Hunter, Stevie Wonder ) - 4:23
  2. Worried Life Blues ( Big Maceo Merriweather ) - 5:58
  3. Tulsa Time (Danny Flowers) - 4:31
  4. Early in the Morning (Traditional) - 6:19
  5. Wonderful Tonight (Clapton) - 6:24
  6. Child Hearted Woman (Johnson) - 5:17
  7. Double Trouble ( Otis Rush ) - 11:06
  8. Crossroads (Johnson) - 5:20
  9. To Make Somebody Happy (Clapton) - 5:11
  10. Cryin ' (Clapton) - 2:54
  11. Water on the Ground (Clapton) - 2:59

Individual evidence

  1. a b Information, criticism , accessed on December 20, 2014, allmusic.com
  2. Information, recording dates, accessed on December 20, 2014, 12bar.de
  3. Awards , accessed December 20, 2014, allmusic.com