Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007


Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 is the Rhino Entertainment and Warner Brothers release to the 2007 Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival. The concert was recorded on July 28, 2007 at the Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Illinois. The recordings were released on both Compact Disc and DVD on November 28, 2007 in the United States. The CD and DVD releases sold more than two million copies worldwide and reached various international charts.

Background

All of the 28,000 concert ticket had been sold in less than 22 minutes, topping the international concert sales chart in May 2007. All the ticket sales proceeds from the event as well as the CD and DVD sales proceeds goes directly to the Crossroads Foundation. The actual amount of recording that was done throughout the whole concert day was eleven hours. The events host was Bill Murray, who also played "Gloria" with Clapton at the beginning of the event. Murray guided the viewers throughout the event, introduced artists and recalled a little bit of their impact on the American music scene. He also put on iconic outfits, that Clapton wore during his career: the suit and hair Clapton wore, when performing for the Rainbow Concert in 1973 and being with the band Cream throughout the 1960s.

Critical reception

critic Hal Horowitz rates the release with four out of possible five stars and thinks that "Guitar is the operative word here, since all the participants are six-string players". Horowitz also rates the variety of music genres as superb and sums his review up by saying: "The DTS surround sound is superb, the camera work classy if occasionally too arty, and the top-notch presentation worthy of the high-quality music and artists involved".

Accolades

Track listing

Disc 1

  1. Introduction
  2. Uberesso
  3. Hell at Home
  4. Maharina
  5. Rosie
  6. Outside Woman Blues
  7. Little by Little
  8. Anyday
  9. Highway 61 Revisited
  10. Nobodysoul
  11. Poor Johnny
  12. Dirty Work at the Crossroads
  13. Sitting on Top of the World
  14. Paying the Cost to Be the Boss
  15. Rock Me Baby
  16. Sweet Thing
  17. Country Boy
  18. If It Makes You Happy
  19. Tulsa Time
  20. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
  21. On the Road Again

    Disc 2

  22. Belief
  23. Gravity
  24. Don’t Worry Baby
  25. Mas y Mas
  26. Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers
  27. Big Block
  28. Tell the Truth
  29. Isn't It a Pity
  30. Little Queen of Spades
  31. Who Do You Love?
  32. Presence of the Lord
  33. Can't Find My Way Home
  34. Had to Cry Today
  35. Dear Mr. Fantasy
  36. Crossroads
  37. Mary Had a Little Lamb
  38. Damn Right I’ve Got the Blues
  39. Sweet Home Chicago

    Best Buy exclusive Bonus Disc 3

  40. Things Get Better
  41. Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?

    Chart performance

Weekly DVD charts

Year-end DVD Charts

Chart Position
Australian Music DVD 43

Certifications and sales