Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies

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Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies is a box set by Eric Clapton, released in 1996. Unlike the first Crossroads box set that encompasses more than three decades of Clapton's work, Crossroads 2 is a chronicle of Clapton's live shows between 1974 through 1978. Much of the focus is on longer renditions of electric blues.

Track listing

Disc one

1. "Walkin' Down the Road" (Paul Levine/Alan Musgrove) – 5:15 (studio outtake)

   Studio outtake recorded May 1974 at Criteria Studios for 461 Ocean Boulevard

2. "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" (Billy Myles) – 7:41

   Recorded 19 July 1974 at the Long Beach Arena

3. "Willie & the Hand Jive"/"Get Ready" (Johhny Otis/Eric Clapton-Yvonne Elliman) – 11:42
4. "Can't Find My Way Home" (Steve Winwood) – 5:19
5. "Driftin' Blues"/"Rambling on My Mind" (Johnny Moore-Charles Brown-Eddie Williams/Robert Johnson) – 11:36
6. "Presence of the Lord" (Clapton) – 8:48

   Tracks 3–6 recorded 20 July 1974 at the Long Beach Arena

7. "Rambling on My Mind"/"Have You Ever Loved a Woman" (Johnson/Myles) – 8:16
8. "Little Wing" (Jimi Hendrix) – 6:43

   Tracks 7–8 recorded 4 December 1974 at the Hammersmith Odeon

9. "The Sky Is Crying"/"Have You Ever Loved a Woman"/"Rambling on My Mind" (Elmore James/Myles/Johnson) – 7:39

   Recorded 5 December 1974 at the Hammersmith Odeon

Disc two

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

   Tracks 3–4 recorded 28 June 1975 at the Nassau Coliseum

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

   Tracks 1–2,5–6 recorded 25 June 1975 at the Providence Civic Center

track 6 with guitarist Carlos Santana

Disc three

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

   Tracks 1–3 recorded 27 April 1977 at the Hammersmith Odeon

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" (J.J. Cale) – 6:37

   Tracks 4,6,7 recorded 12 February 1978 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorim

8. "Goin' Down Slow" / "Rambling on My Mind" (St. Louis Jimmy Oden/Johnson) – 13:45

   Tracks 5,8 recorded 11 February 1978 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

9. "Mean Old Frisco" (Arthur Crudup) – 5:53

   Recorded 21 March 1978 at the Savannah Civic Center

Disc four

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. "Kind Hearted Woman" (Johnson) – 5:17

   Tracks 3,5,6 recorded 24 November 1978 at the Apollo Theatre, Glasgow

7. "Double Trouble" (Otis Rush) – 11:06
8. "Crossroads" (Johnson) – 5:20

   Tracks 1,2,4,7,8 recorded 28 November 1978 at the Victoria Hall, Hanley

9. "To Make Somebody Happy" (Clapton) – 5:11 (studio outtake)
10. "Cryin'" (Clapton) – 2:54 (studio outtake)
11. "Water on the Ground" (Clapton) – 2:59 (studio outtake)

    Tracks 9-11 are studio recordings, recorded 28 December 1978 at Olympic Studios

References

• General info, Recording Locations
• Release info, tracklist
• Allmusic Review