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Album Review: Various - Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013

A generous host, at the end of the day, though you’ve got everyone from Derek Trucks and Gary Clark Jr to Earl Klugh and Los Lobos, it’s Clapton who remains the star. Even Keith Richards can’t upstage him.



This 'live' double CD is from the fourth of Clapton's highly successful triennial festival-cum-benefit concert series, proceeds going to the youth drug rehabilitation Crossroads Centre in Antigua he established. Once again Clapton enlists some of the best players on the scene and makes a huge shindig out of this explosive line-up. A generous host, at the end of the day, though you've got everyone from Derek Trucks and Gary Clark Jr to Earl Klugh and Los Lobos, it's Clapton who remains the star. Even Keith Richards can't upstage him.