Audio CD (May 18, 1989)
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Live
Label: Atco
ASIN: B000002IAS
Track Listing:
1. Things Get Better
2. Por Elijah-Tribute To Johnson Medley
3. Only You Know And I Know
4. I Don't Want To Discuss It
5. That's What My Man Is For
6. Where There's A Will, There's A Way
7. Coming Home
8. Little Richard Medley: Tutti-Frutti
One of the Best Live Recording Ever. Period.
October 13, 2000
Reviewer: alan j. sandler (US)
What a tour this must have been! Imagine a pick-up band with Eric
Clapton, Dave Mason and Jessie Ed Davis on guitars, the rest of
Derek and the Dominoes behind them, Jim Price and Bobby Keys on
horns and Rita Coolidge to sing back up vocals. That's the team
that Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett fielded for this 1970 gem. Thank
God it was recorded! You won't be able to sit still during the
opening Things Get Better, which manages to showcase every
musician in one killer tune. Delaney and Bonnie's voices are
wonderfully soulful in their Tribute Medley to Robert Johnson,
and Dave Mason's Only You Know and I know rises to a new level.
Bonnie really belts it out during That's What My Man is For,
and a fun Little Richard Medley is icing on the cake. E.C. always
loved being part of a band, and it really shows here. Everyone
playing on this CD was young, healthy, energetic and still
learning how good their music could be. I bought the vinyl 30
years ago, and now with the CD, I'm still loving it.
Buy it and BOOGIE!
Review by Bruce Eder
This 42-minute, eight-song live album, cut at Croydon late in 1969,
is not only the peak of Delaney & Bonnie's output, but also the nexus
in the recording and performing careers of Eric Clapton and George
Harrison. On Tour With Eric Clapton features the guitarist performing
the same blend of country, blues, and gospel that would characterize
his own early solo ventures in 1970. He rises to the occasion with
dazzling displays of virtuosity throughout, highlighted by a
dizzying solo on "I Don't Want to Discuss," a long, languid part on
"Only You Know and I Know," and searing, soulful lead on the
beautifully harmonized "Coming Home." Vocally, Delaney & Bonnie were
never better than they come off on this live set, and the 11-piece
band sounds tighter musically than a lot of quartets that were
working at the time, whether they're playing extended blues or
ripping through a medley of Little Richard songs. It's no accident
that the band featured here would become Clapton's own studio outfit
for his debut solo LP, or that the core of this group — Bobby
Whitlock, Carl Radle, and Jim Gordon — would transform itself into
Derek & the Dominoes as well; or that most of the full band here
would also comprise the group that played with George Harrison on
All Things Must Pass and at the Concert for Bangladesh, except that
the playing here (not to mention the recording) is better. Half the
musicians on this record achieved near-superstar status less than a
year later, and although the reasons behind their fame didn't last,
listening to their work decades later, it all seems justified. One
only wishes that Atlantic Records might check their vaults for any
unreleased numbers from these shows that could fit on an extended CD.
source:
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