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,[3] at No. 39 on the UK Albums Chart, and was certified a gold record by the RIAA.[4]

On Tour with Eric Clapton
Live album by
ReleasedMarch 1970
Recorded7 December 1969
VenueFairfield Halls, Croydon, England
Genre
Length42:35 (incl. stage announcements and crowd noise)
LabelAtco
ProducerJimmy Miller, Delaney Bramlett
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends chronology
The Original Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
(1969)
On Tour with Eric Clapton
(1970)
To Bonnie from Delaney
(1970)
Eric Clapton chronology
Blind Faith
(1969)
On Tour with Eric Clapton
(1970)
Eric Clapton
(1970)

Content and reissue edit

The album features Delaney and Bonnie's best-known touring band, including Eric Clapton, Jim Gordon, Carl Radle, Bobby Whitlock, and Dave Mason. Many of the players on this album went on to work with George 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 played 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 formed 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.[5]

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, which are represented on discs 2-4.

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [2]
Christgau's Record GuideA−[6]
MusicHound Rock     [citation needed]
Rolling StonePositive[1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide     [citation needed]
The Village VoiceA[7]
Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music     [citation needed]
The Great Rock Discography8/10[citation needed]
Music Story     [citation needed]
The 1000 Best Pop-Rock Albums     [citation needed]

The album has received highly positive reviews, with many critics suggesting the album is superior to Clapton's prior project (Blind Faith). In the Rolling Stone Album Guide, the album is described as "a triumph", which is attributed to the fact the band was "one of the best" in "rock and roll".[8] Writing for Rolling Stone, Mark Kemp said the album contained "wicked performances of the kind of country and boogie that would define Southern rock".[1] Mojo described the album as "one of the two Rosetta Stones of roots rock'n'roll".[9]

Track listing edit

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Things Get Better"Steve Cropper, Eddie Floyd, Wayne Jackson4:20
2."Poor Elijah – Tribute to Johnson (medley)"Delaney Bramlett, Jim Ford, Leon Russell5:00
3."Only You Know and I Know"Dave Mason4:10
4."I Don't Want to Discuss It"Beth Beatty, Dick Cooper, Ernie Shelby4:55
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."That's What My Man Is For"Bessie Griffin4:30
2."Where There's A Will There's A Way"Bonnie Bramlett, Delaney Bramlett, Bobby Whitlock4:57
3."Comin' Home"Bonnie Bramlett, Delaney Bramlett, Eric Clapton5:30
4."Little Richard Medley – Tutti Frutti/The Girl Can't Help It/Long Tall Sally/Jenny Jenny"Richard Penniman, Bobby Troup, Robert Blackwell5:45

2010 deluxe edition box set edit

Disc one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Intro / Tuning" 0:41
2."Opening Jam" 5:00
3."Gimme Some Lovin'"Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis, Muff Winwood3:50
4."Band Introductions" 1:36
5."Only You Know and I Know"Dave Mason4:35
6."Medley: Poor Elijah / Tribute to Johnson"Delaney Bramlett, Jim Ford, Leon Russell5:19
7."Get Ourselves Together"Delaney Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett, Carl Radle3:01
8."I Don't Know Why"Delaney Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett, Eric Clapton5:09
9."Where's There's a Will, There's a Way"Delaney Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett, Bobby Whitlock4:30
10."That's What My Man Is For"Bessie Griffin3:44
11."Medley: Pour Your Love on Me / Just Plain Beautiful"Homer Banks, Bonnie Bramlett / Steve Cropper, Bettye Crutcher9:21
12."Everybody Loves a Winner"Booker T. Jones, William Bell4:48
13."Things Get Better"Cropper, Eddie Floyd, Wayne Jackson4:09
14."Coming Home"Delaney Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett, Clapton4:49
15."I Don't Want to Discuss It"Beth Beatty, Dick Cooper, Ernie Shelby5:19
16."Little Richard Medley: Tutti Frutti / The Girl Can't Help It / Long Tall Sally / Jenny Jenny"Richard Penniman, Bobby Troup8:52
17."My Baby Specializes"Isaac Hayes, David Porter4:19
Disc two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Intro / Tuning" 0:39
2."Opening Jam" 4:39
3."Gimme Some Lovin'"Steve Winwood, Davis, Muff Winwood4:10
4."Things Get Better"Cropper, Floyd, Jackson3:49
5."Medley: Poor Elijah / Tribute to Johnson"Delaney Bramlett, Ford, Russell5:37
6."I Don't Know Why"Delaney Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett, Clapton5:23
7."Medley: Pour Your Love on Me / Just Plain Beautiful"Banks, Bonnie Bramlett / Cropper, Crutcher8:42
8."Where There's a Will, There's a Way"Delaney Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett, Whitlock4:12
9."Coming Home"Delaney Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett, Clapton4:50
10."Little Richard Medley: Tutti Frutti / The Girl Can't Help It / Long Tall Sally / Jenny Jenny"Penniman, Troup7:13
11."I Don't Want to Discuss It"Beatty, Cooper, Shelby5:19
12."Crowd / Announcement" 2:56
Disc three
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Intro / Tuning" 0:51
2."Gimme Some Lovin'"Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis, Muff Winwood4:01
3."Introduction" 0:44
4."Things Get Better"Cropper, Floyd, Jackson4:59
5."Medley: Poor Elijah / Tribute to Johnson"D. Bramlett, Ford, Russell7:17
6."I Don't Know Why"D. Bramlett, B. Bramlett, Clapton5:35
7."Where There's a Will, There's a Way"B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, Whitlock5:27
8."That's What My Man Is For"Griffin5:03
9."I Don't Want to Discuss It"Beatty, Cooper, Shelby5:33
10."Coming Home"B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, Clapton7:51
Disc four
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Intro / Tuning" 1:25
2."Gimme Some Lovin'"S. Winwood, Davis, M. Winwood4:24
3."Pigmy"Mel Brown, Billy Larkin, Henry Swarn8:51
4."Introductions" 1:31
5."Things Get Better"Cropper, Floyd, Jackson4:50
6."Medley: Poor Elijah / Tribute to Johnson"D. Bramlett, Ford, Russell5:30
7."Only You Know and I Know"Mason5:28
8."Will the Circle Be Unbroken?"A. P. Carter3:54
9."Where There's a Will, There's a Way"B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, B. Whitlock5:23
10."I Don't Know Why"D. Bramlett, B. Bramlett, Clapton5:58
11."That's What My Man Is For"Griffin4:56
12."Coming Home"B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, Clapton7:42
13."Little Richard Medley: Tutti Frutti / The Girl Can't Help It / Long Tall Sally / Jenny Jenny"Penniman, Troup6:17

Personnel edit

Production personnel

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d Kemp, Mark (12 August 2010). "On Tour With Eric Clapton (Deluxe Edition)". Rollingstone.com. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d "On Tour with Eric Clapton". Allmusic. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  3. ^ "Atco Album Discography, Part 2". Bsnpubs.com. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Artists". Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Random Notes". Rolling Stone. No. 55. Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. 2 April 1970. p. 4.
  6. ^ Christgau, Robert. "On Tour Album Review". The Village Voice. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  7. ^ Christgau, Robert (28 May 1970). "Consumer Guide (10)". The Village Voice. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  8. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743201698. delanney and bonny.
  9. ^ "On Tour with Eric Clapton". cdunivere.com. Retrieved 24 May 2018.