Eric Clapton - Crossroads 2 (4 CD) - 1996

Genre: Blues-rock / British blues / Regional blues
Country of release: Germany
Year of release: 1996
Publisher (label): Polygram
Catalog number: 529 305-2
Audio codec: FLAC (*.flac)
Rip type: image+.cue
Audio bitrate: lossless
Duration: 4:27:23

Tracklist:
CD 1
01 Walkin' Down The Road
02 Have You Ever Loved A Woman
03 Willie And The Hand Jive / Get Ready
04 Can't Find My Way Home
05 Driftin' Blues / Rambling On My Mind
06 Presence Of The Lord
07 Rambling On My Mind / Have You Ever Loved A Woman
08 Little Wing
09 The Sky Is Crying / Have You Ever Loved A Woman / Rambling On My Mind

CD 2
01 Layla
02 Further On Up The Road
03 I Shot The Sheriff
04 Badge
05 Driftin' Blues
06 Eyesight To The Blind / Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?

CD 3
01 Tell The Truth
02 Knockin' On Heaven's Door
03 Stormy Monday
04 Lay Down Sally
05 The Core
06 We're All The Way
07 Cocaine
08 Goin' Down Slow / Rambling On My Mind
09 Mean Old Frisco

CD 4
01 Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
02 Worried Life Blues
03 Tulsa Time
04 Early In The Morning
05 Wonderful Tonight
06 Kind Hearted Woman
07 Double Trouble
08 Crossroads
09 To Make Somebody Happy
10 Cryin'
11 Water On The Ground

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Crossroads was a box set that appealed to both beginners and fanatics. Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies only appeals to fanatics. Spanning four discs and consisting almost entirely of live material (there are a handful of studio outtakes), this is music that will only enthrall completists and archivists. For those listeners, there is a wealth of fascinating, compelling performances here, as well as a fair share of mediocre, uninspired tracks. The key word for the entire album is detail -- it is an album for studying the intricacies of Eric Clapton's playing and how it evolved. For example, it's easy to hear the differences and progressions between the four versions of Robert Johnson's "Rambling on My Mind." And it is Clapton that evolves, not his supporting band -- although they are proficient, they are hardly exciting. However, their static, professional support provides a nice bed to chart Slowhand's growth over the course of the decade, simply because he is always the focal point. Crossroads 2 may only be for a collector, but for those collectors, it is a treasure, even if some of the tracks are fool's gold