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GREAT PERFORMANCES: Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival 3

Grammy Award-winning guitar superstar Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck perform on stage together for the third Crossroads Guitar Festival at Toyota Park in Chicago, June 2010.
2010 Kevin Mazur
Grammy Award-winning guitar superstar Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck perform on stage together for the third Crossroads Guitar Festival at Toyota Park in Chicago, June 2010.

Airs Friday, October 7, 2011 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Song List

“Promise Land” – Sonny Landreth w/Eric Clapton

“Going Down” – Pino Daniele, Joe Bonamassa, Robert Randolph & The Family Band

“Waiting for The Bus” – ZZ Top

“Jesus Just Left Chicago” – ZZ Top

“Bright Lights” – Gary Clark, Jr.

“Our Love Is Fading” – Sheryl Crow w/Eric Clapton, Doyle Bramhall II & Gary Clark Jr,

“Lay Down Sally” – Vince Gill w/Sheryl Crow, Keb’ Mo’, Albert Lee, James Burton & Earl Klugh

“Who Did You Think I Was” – John Mayer Trio

“Midnight in Harlem” – Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band

“Space Captain” – Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band w/Warren Haynes, David Hidalgo, Cesar Rosas & Chris Stainton

“Five Long Years” – Buddy Guy with Jonny Lang & Ronnie Wood

“Hammerhead” – Jeff Beck

“I Shot the Sheriff” – Eric Clapton

“Had to Cry Today” – Steve Winwood & Eric Clapton

“Voodoo Chile” – Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood

“Dear Mr. Fantasy” – Steve Winwood & Eric Clapton

In June 2010, Grammy Award-winning guitar superstar Eric Clapton re-teamed with fellow “guitar gods” for a third Crossroads Guitar Festival at Toyota Park in Chicago, America’s Blues Capital.

Shining a spotlight on the wide variety of guitar virtuosity, the gathering further expands the diverse range of musicianship in many musical genres, including blues, bluegrass, country, rhythm & blues and more.

The show features performances by Robert Cray, Hubert Sumlin (Howlin’ Wolf’s guitarist), Jimmie Vaughan, Sonny Landreth, Gary Clark, Jr., Keb’ Mo’ and Buddy Guy, B.B. King, ZZ Top, Jeff Beck, the John Mayer Trio, Doyle Bramhall II, the Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band, Warren Haynes and Steve Winwood, Vince Gill, James Burton, Sheryl Crow, Ronnie Wood, Robert Randolph, Jonny Lang, Joe Bonamassa, Pino Daniele, and Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas. Bill Murray returns to host.

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Clapton notes, “The Crossroads Festival is the realization of a dream for me, to gather a group of amazingly talented musicians to perform on one stage,” and adding, “The Crossroads performers are all musicians I admire and respect.”

Writing for The New York Times, Jon Pareles noted, "Crossroads was a decidedly old-fashioned rock event. Every note, give or take an echo effect, was played by hand."

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