Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007


Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 is the Rhino Entertainment and Warner Brothers release to the 2007 Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival. The concert was recorded on July 28, 2007 at the Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Illinois. The recordings were released on both Compact Disc and DVD on November 28, 2007 in the United States. The CD and DVD releases sold more than two million copies worldwide and reached various international charts.

Background

All of the 28,000 concert tickets had been sold in less than 22 minutes, topping the international concert sales chart in May 2007. All the ticket sales proceeds from the event as well as the CD and DVD sales proceeds goes directly to the Crossroads Foundation. The actual amount of recording that was done throughout the whole concert day was eleven hours. The events host was Bill Murray, who also played "Gloria" with Clapton at the beginning of the event. Murray guided the viewers throughout the event, introduced artists and recalled a little bit of their impact on the American music scene. He also put on iconic outfits, that Clapton wore during his career: the suit and hair Clapton wore, when performing for the Rainbow Concert in 1973 and being with the band Cream throughout the 1960s.

Critical reception

AllMusic critic Hal Horowitz rates the release with four out of possible five stars and thinks that "Guitar is the operative word here, since all the participants are six-string players". Horowitz also rates the variety of music genres as superb and sums his review up by saying: "The DTS surround sound is superb, the camera work classy if occasionally too arty, and the top-notch presentation worthy of the high-quality music and artists involved".

Track listing

Disc 1

  1. Introduction
  2. Uberesso
  3. Hell at Home
  4. Maharina
  5. Rosie
  6. Outside Woman Blues
  7. Little by Little
  8. Anyday
  9. Highway 61 Revisited
  10. Nobodysoul
  11. Poor Johnny
  12. Dirty Work at the Crossroads
  13. Sitting on Top of the World
  14. Paying the Cost to Be the Boss
  15. Rock Me Baby
  16. Sweet Thing
  17. Country Boy
  18. If It Makes You Happy
  19. Tulsa Time
  20. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
  21. On the Road Again

Disc 2

  1. Belief
  2. Gravity
  3. Don’t Worry Baby
  4. Mas y Mas
  5. Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers
  6. Big Block
  7. Tell the Truth
  8. Isn't It a Pity
  9. Little Queen of Spades
  10. Who Do You Love?
  11. Presence of the Lord
  12. Can't Find My Way Home
  13. Had to Cry Today
  14. Dear Mr. Fantasy
  15. Crossroads
  16. Mary Had a Little Lamb
  17. Damn Right I’ve Got the Blues
  18. Sweet Home Chicago

Best Buy exclusive Bonus Disc 3

  1. Things Get Better
  2. Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?

Chart performance

Year-end charts

Chart Position
Australian Music DVD 43