Released March 1970 Release date March 1970 | On Tour with Eric Clapton
(1970) Eric Clapton
(1970) Label Atco Records | |
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Recorded 7 December 1969, Fairfield Halls, Croydon, England Length 42:35 (incl. stage announcements and crowd noise) On Tour with Eric Clapton
(1970) To Bonnie from Delaney
(1970) Artists Eric Clapton, Delaney & Bonnie Genres Rock music, Blue-eyed soul Producers Jimmy Miller, Delaney Bramlett Similar Delaney & Bonnie albums, Rock music albums | ||
Delaney bonnie and friends on tour with eric clapton 1970 full album
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, at #39 on the British album chart, and was certified a gold record by the RIAA.
Contents
Content and reissue
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 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.
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.
Track listing
Personnel
Songs
1Things Get Better4:20
2Poor Elijah / Tribute to Johnson (medley)5:10
3Only You Know and I Know4:43