Crossroads [BOX SET]

Eric Clapton

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: April 18, 1988
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Box set
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• Label: Polydor / Umgd
• ASIN: B000001FOP
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #38,197 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Boom Boom - Eric Clapton, The Yardbirds

2. Honey in Your Hips - Eric Clapton, The Yardbirds

3. Baby What's Wrong - Eric Clapton, The Yardbirds

4. I Wish You Would - Eric Clapton, The Yardbirds, The Yardbirds

5. Certain Girl - Eric Clapton, The Yardbirds, The Yardbirds

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Anyone for Tennis - Eric Clapton, Cream

2. White Room - Eric Clapton, Cream

3. Crossroads [Live] - Eric Clapton, Cream

4. Badge - Eric Clapton, Cream

5. Presence of the Lord - Blind Faith, Eric Clapton

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Got to Get Better in a Little While [#] - Eric Clapton, Derek & the Dominos

2. Evil [#] - Eric Clapton, Derek & the Dominos

3. One More Chance [#] - Eric Clapton, Derek & the Dominos

4. Mean Old Frisco [#] - Eric Clapton, Derek & the Dominos

5. Snake Lake Blues [#] - Eric Clapton, Derek & the Dominos

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Disc: 4

1. Hello Old Friend - Eric Clapton

2. Sign Language - Eric Clapton

3. Further on up the Road [Live][#] - Eric Clapton

4. Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton

5. Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton

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Editorial Reviews

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Including both his band work (with the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Blues Breakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie, and Derek and the Dominos) and his long, varied solo career, this four-CD set does a spectacular job in gathering several decades' worth of Clapton's best. There are the requisite classics--"Layla," "Blues Power," "After Midnight," "Further On Up the Road," "Crossroads," and "I Shot the Sheriff," among many others--some of them in previously unreleased live or alternate studio recordings. Released in 1988, when only superstars were granted the box set, Crossroads became the blueprint for what such a retrospective should be. For its scope, this box skims the cream of Clapton's large output. --Daniel Durchholz

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great summary of Clapton's Career, November 3, 1998

By	[e-mail] (Sao Paulo, Brazil) - See all my reviews

From his days with The Yardbirds until his somewhat recent (1988) solo projects, these four CDs will show you what a great artist Eric Clapton is. This box-set has all of his greatest hits, lots of rare recordings, and first-rate previously unreleased material. Also here you will find the songs that were to be a part of Derek And The Dominos aborted second album, and they show that they were a band who could have gone a long way. You will also hear different versions of some of his hits, like a live version of I Shot The Sheriff, and two versions of After Midnight, one like the original but with horns, and one with a slower rhythm. Pay special attention to the song Crossroads, one of Eric's favorites, with two live versions of here: Cream's mind-blowing rock performance, with perhaps Eric's best guitar solo, and Derek And The Dominos awesome blues version. An essential item, not just for his fans, with lots of good rock and blues.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Retrospective, July 27, 2001

By	Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

Eric Clapton's Crossroads followed in the wake of the success of Bob Dylan's Biograph as one the first box sets to chronicle the career of an artist. Utilizing the new compact disk format, the set starts off on disk one with "Boom Boom" from his Yardbird days all the way up to the end of disk four with his much maligned remake of "After Midnight". In between you get every song that made Mr. Clapton the revered figure he is. There are so many songs that one can't list them all but "Layla", "White Room", "Sunshine Of Your Love", "Cocaine", "I Shot The Sheriff", "Lay Down Sally" and all his hits are here. Also mixed in are some unreleased tracks and lesser known gems like Cream's "Anyone For Tennis". The set also includes a tremendous booklet full of insight and great pictures. Crossroads unfortunately helped set off a boom of box sets where everyone had a box set released, even marginal bands like ELO and Kansas. In spite of that, Crossroads is everything a box set should be and is a worthy retrospective of a legend's career.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A stunning restrospective of the "early" Clapton, October 21, 2000

By	Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (COMMUNITY FORUM 04)

This four disc set from 1988 was really one of the first collections to really cover the evolution of a major artist over an immense body of work. "Crossroads" presents Eric Clapton in all his myriad incarnations and truly gives you a sense of his musical career up to that point in time, which is why a second edition was necessary. Rather than blather on about the man's talents, let me just riff on what you get with this set. Disc 1 goes from "For Your Love" with the Yardbirds to "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers to Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love." Disc 2 offers the retrospectively ironic "Badge" co-written with George Harrison, "Presence of the Lord" with Blind Faith, "Comin' Home" with Delaney and Bonnie, "Let it Rain" from his first solo effort, and "Layla" with Derek and the Dominos. By Disc 3 Clapton is well into his solo career, with "Let it Grow" and "I Shot the Sheriff." Disc 4 has "Wonderful Tonight," "Miss You" and ends with the version of "After Midnight" he recorded for that beer commercial. That last track really sums up Clapton's career for me. You listen to the original on Disc 2 and compare it to the remake and I think you really get a sense for the roads the man has crossed. If you like your rock and roll with a touch of blues or the other way around, this is the man and "Crossroads" is what you want in your collection.