On Tour with Eric Clapton

On Tour with Eric Clapton is a 1970 album by Delaney & Bonnie with Eric Clapton, recorded live at the Fairfield Halls, England. Released on Atco Records, it peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard 200 in April 1970,^[1] at #39 on the British album chart, and was certified a gold record by the RIAA.^[2]

Content and reissue

The album features Delaney and Bonnie's best-known touring band, including Eric Clapton, Jim Gordon, Carl Radle, Bobby Whitlock, Dave Mason, and George Harrison under his pseudonym "L'Angelo Misterioso." Many of the players on this album would later go on to work with Harrison on his post-Beatles debut album All Things Must Pass and with Clapton on his solo debut. The horn players Bobby Keys and Jim Price would play on the albums Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St. by the Rolling Stones, and join them for their 1972 STP Tour. Whitlock, Radle, and Gordon would form with Clapton his band Derek and the Dominos for Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.

As no pictures of Delaney and Bonnie were deemed good enough for the album cover, a photo was used instead of a Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn in a desert, reportedly taken by manager Barry Feinstein while working as a photographer covering a Bob Dylan tour in 1966. Dylan's feet are those hanging from the car window.^[3]

On Tour was re-issued in 2010 as four-disc box set, packaged in a mock road case containing the complete performance from the Royal Albert Hall, plus a composite of the next night's performances at Colston Hall in Bristol, and both the early and late shows from the tour's final stop at Fairfield Halls in Croydon. George Harrison played slide guitar on the English leg of the tour that followed the Albert Hall performance, as well as in Scandinavia, therefore he doesn't appear on the first disc but does on the other three.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[4]
Robert Christgau	A-^[5]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Things Get Better"	Steve Cropper, Eddie Floyd, Wayne Jackson	4:20
2.	"Poor Elijah – Tribute to Johnson (medley)"	Delaney Bramlett, Jim Ford, Leon Russell	5:00
3.	"Only You Know and I Know"	Dave Mason	4:10
4.	"I Don't Want to Discuss It"	Beth Beatty, Dick Cooper, Ernie Shelby	4:55

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"That's What My Man Is For"	Bessie Griffin	4:30
2.	"Where There's A Will There's A Way"	Bonnie Bramlett, Delaney Bramlett, Bobby Whitlock	4:57
3.	"Comin' Home"	Bonnie Bramlett, Delaney Bramlett, Eric Clapton	5:30
4.	"Little Richard Medley – Tutti Frutti/The Girl Can't Help It/Long Tall Sally/Jenny Jenny"	Richard Penniman, Bobby Troup, Robert Blackwell	5:45

2010 deluxe edition box set

Disc one
Track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Intro / Tuning"	0:41
2.	"Opening Jam"	5:00
3.	"Gimme Some Lovin'" (Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis, Muff Winwood)	3:50
4.	"Band Introductions"	1:36
5.	"Only You Know and I Know" (Dave Mason)	4:35
6.	"Medley: Poor Elijah / Tribute to Johnson" (Delaney Bramlett, Jim Ford, Leon Russell)	5:19
7.	"Get Ourselves Together" (D. Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett, Carl Radle)	3:01
8.	"I Don't Know Why" (D. Bramlett, B. Bramlett, Eric Clapton)	5:09
9.	"Where's There's a Will, There's a Way" (B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, Bobby Whitlock)	4:30
10.	"That's What My Man Is For" (Bessie Griffin)	3:44
11.	"Medley: Pour Your Love on Me / Just Plain Beautiful" (Homer Banks, B. Bramlett / Steve Cropper, Bettye Crutcher)	9:21
12.	"Everybody Loves a Winner" (Booker T. Jones, William Bell)	4:48
13.	"Things Get Better" (Cropper, Eddie Floyd, Wayne Jackson)	4:09
14.	"Coming Home" (B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, Clapton)	4:49
15.	"I Don't Want to Discuss It" (Beth Beatty, Dick Cooper, Ernie Shelby)	5:19
16.	"Little Richard Medley: Tutti Frutti / The Girl Can't Help It / Long Tall Sally / Jenny Jenny" (Richard Penniman, Bobby Troup)	8:52
17.	"My Baby Specializes" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter)	4:19

Disc two
Track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Intro / Tuning"	0:39
2.	"Opening Jam"	4:39
3.	"Gimme Some Lovin'" (S. Winwood, Davis, M. Winwood)	4:10
4.	"Things Get Better" (Cropper, Floyd, Jackson)	3:49
5.	"Medley: Poor Elijah / Tribute to Johnson" (D. Bramlett, Ford, Russell)	5:37
6.	"I Don't Know Why" (D. Bramlett, B. Bramlett, Clapton)	5:23
7.	"Medley: Pour Your Love on Me / Just Plain Beautiful" (Banks, B. Bramlett / Cropper, Crutcher)	8:42
8.	"Where There's a Will, There's a Way" (B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, Whitlock)	4:12
9.	"Coming Home" (B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, Clapton)	4:50
10.	"Little Richard Medley: Tutti Frutti / The Girl Can't Help It / Long Tall Sally / Jenny Jenny" (Penniman, Troup)	7:13
11.	"I Don't Want to Discuss It" (Beatty, Cooper, Shelby)	5:19
12.	"Crowd / Announcement"	2:56

Disc three
Track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Intro / Tuning"	0:51
2.	"Gimme Some Lovin'" (S. Winwood, Spencer Davis, M. Winwood)	4:01
3.	"Introduction"	0:44
4.	"Things Get Better" (Cropper, Floyd, Jackson)	4:59
5.	"Medley: Poor Elijah / Tribute to Johnson" (D. Bramlett, Ford, Russell)	7:17
6.	"I Don't Know Why" (D. Bramlett, B. Bramlett, Clapton)	5:35
7.	"Where There's a Will, There's a Way" (B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, Whitlock)	5:27
8.	"That's What My Man Is For" (Griffin)	5:03
9.	"I Don't Want to Discuss It" (Beatty, Cooper, Shelby)	5:33
10.	"Coming Home" (B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, Clapton)	7:51

Disc four
Track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Intro / Tuning"	1:25
2.	"Gimme Some Lovin'" (S. Winwood, Davis, M. Winwood)	4:24
3.	"Pigmy" (Mel Brown, Billy Larkin, Henry Swarn)	8:51
4.	"Introductions"	1:31
5.	"Things Get Better" (Cropper, Floyd, Jackson)	4:50
6.	"Medley: Poor Elijah / Tribute to Johnson" (D. Bramlett, Ford, Russell)	5:30
7.	"Only You Know and I Know" (Mason)	5:28
8.	"Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" (A. P. Carter)	3:54
9.	"Where There's a Will, There's a Way" (B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, B. Whitlock)	5:23
10.	"I Don't Know Why" (D. Bramlett, B. Bramlett, Clapton)	5:58
11.	"That's What My Man Is For" (Mason)	4:56
12.	"Coming Home" (B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, Clapton)	7:42
13.	"Little Richard Medley: Tutti Frutti / The Girl Can't Help It / Long Tall Sally / Jenny Jenny" (Penniman, Troup)	6:17

Personnel

Bonnie Bramlett — vocals
Delaney Bramlett — guitars, vocals
Eric Clapton — lead guitars, vocals
Dave Mason — guitars
Bobby Whitlock — organ, keyboards, vocals
Carl Radle — bass guitar
Jim Gordon — drums, percussion
Tex Johnson – percussion
Doug Bartenfeld – guitar
Bobby Keys — saxophone
Jim Price — trombone, trumpet
Rita Coolidge — backing vocals
George Harrison (2010 deluxe edition box set only) — guitar

Production personnel

Jimmy Miller, Delaney Bramlett — producers
Bill Halverson — mixing
Andy Johns, Glyn Johns, Tex Johnson — recording engineers
Jim Price – horn arrangements
Barry Feinstein – photography
Tom Wilkes — design, photography

References

↑ Refer to Both Sides Now Publications' Atco Records LP Discography (http://bsnpubs.com/atlantic/atco266389.html).
↑ UK Chart Stats webpage
↑ "Random Notes". Rolling Stone. Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. (55): 4. 2 April 1970.
↑ "On Tour with Eric Clapton". Allmusic. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
↑ Christgau, Robert. "On Tour Album Review". The Village Voice. Retrieved 26 June 2013.

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/28/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.