Live In San Diego With Special Guest JJ Cale is available to preorder now through Clapton’s site and will arrive March 10th. “This is the realization of what may have been my last ambition, to work with the man whose music has inspired me for as long as I can remember,” Clapton said of Cale at the time. Live In San Diego With Special Guest JJ Cale features Clapton performing alongside Cale on five tracks, including Clapton’s Cale-penned hits “After Midnight” and “Cocaine,” and Robert Cray on “Crossroads.” Clapton’s band at the time also featured guitarists Derek Trucks and Doyle Bramhall II.Ĭlapton and Cale’s San Diego performance came less than a year after the two artists collaborated on 2006’s Road to Escondido. “I Still Do” follows the 2014 chart-topping collaborative album, “Eric Clapton & Friends: The Breeze, An Appreciation of JJ Cale”, which saw the guitarist work with Tom Petty, Mark Knopfler, John Mayer, Willie Nelson and others.Ĭale passed away from a heart attack in La Jolla, California on Jat the age of 74.Nearly 10 years to the day that Eric Clapton held an all-star gig at San Diego’s iPayOne Center – a concert that was immortalized as a live album this year – the guitarist will release the DVD/Blu-ray of the March 15th, 1997 performance this spring. The project sees Clapton reunite with “Slowhand” producer Glyn Johns on the 40th anniversary of the 1976 project that remains one of the guitarist’s biggest-selling studio efforts. “Live In San Diego with Special Guest JJ Cale” will be available as a two-disc CD, a three-disc vinyl set and as a digital album.Īlthough filmed and recorded, a DVD/Blu-ray release of the concert is not planned.Ĭlapton recently released his 23rd album, “I Still Do.”
Opener Robert Cray joined the lineup for the encore of the blues standard, "Crossroads."
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