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Eric Clapton Crossroads

Eric Clapton’s retrospective release Crossroads is a celebration of his brilliant career. The album gives an outstanding sampling of his best work up to his August CD in 1986. The key word is sampling as this is not a comprehensive collection for an Eric Clapton fan; how could four discs be?  The areas of his career that you enjoy best you’ll want to supplement with the full album. For example, even though three songs are included from Slowhand I find having the full CD worthwhile. Besides having one of my favorite Eric Clapton’s songs, “The Core,” having the whole disc has a much different flow and feeling rather than just having a sequence of hits.  I’m sure you feel the same way about your favorite periods whether it is John Mayall and the Blues Breakers, Cream, or any other segment of his vast solo career. 

Eric Clapton Crossroads is essential for both casual and hard-core fans. For the casual fan this may be your entire Eric Clapton collection covering the early years. For the more serious collector this CD has many one of a kind treasures making this mandatory even if you have many Eric Clapton CD’s already. If you are a fan of Derek and the Dominos you get eleven tracks and only one came from their only studio release Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, of course, most additional tracks do not have Duane Allman. Many of these Derek and the Dominos gems are credited to the May ’71 sessions for the second studio album that was never released. Another gem is a great live version of Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff,” and there’s a lot more.