Crossroads
Including both his band work (with theYardbirds,John Mayall's Blues Breakers,Cream,Blind Faith,Delaney and Bonnie, andDerek and the Dominos) and his long, varied solo career, this four-CD set does a spectacular job in gathering several decades' worth of Clapton's best. There are the requisite classics--"Layla," "Blues Power," "After Midnight," "Further On Up the Road," "Crossroads," and "I Shot the Sheriff," among many others--some of them in previously unreleased live or alternate studio recordings. Released in 1988, when only superstars were granted the box set,Crossroadsbecame the blueprint for what such a retrospective should be. For its scope, this box skims the cream of Clapton's large output.--Daniel Durchholz