On Tour with Eric Clapton

On Tour With Eric Clapton

Live album by Delaney & Bonnie & Friends

Released

March 1970

Recorded

7 December 1969, Fairfield Halls, Croydon, England

Genre

Rock

Length

42:35 (incl. stage announcements and crowd noise)

Label

Atco

Producer

Jimmy Miller, Delaney Bramlett

Delaney & Bonnie & Friends chronology

The Original Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
(1969)

On Tour with Eric Clapton
(1970)

To Bonnie from Delaney
(1970)

Eric Clapton chronology

Blind Faith
(1969)

On Tour with Eric Clapton
(1970)

Eric Clapton
(1970)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Robert Christgau	A^[2]

On Tour with Eric Clapton is the third album by Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, released on Atco Records in 1970, catalogue SD 33-326. It peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard 200 in April 1970,^[3] at #39 on the British album chart, and was certified a gold record by the RIAA.^[4]

Content and reissue

The album features Delaney and Bonnie's best-known touring band, including Eric Clapton, Jim Gordon, Carl Radle, Bobby Whitlock, Leon Russell, Dave Mason, and George Harrison under his pseudonym "L'Angelo Misterioso." 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.^[5]

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

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Things Get Better"	Steve Cropper, Eddie Floyd, Wayne Jackson	4:20
2.	"Poor Elijah – Tribute to Robert Johnson Medley"	Delaney Bramlett, Jim Ford, Leon Russell	5:00
3.	"Only You Know and I Know"	Dave Mason	4:10
4.	"I Don't Want to Discuss It"	Beth Beatty, Dick Cooper, Ernie Shelby	4:55

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"That's What My Man Is For"	Bessie Griffin	4:30
2.	"Where There's A Will There's A Way"	Bonnie Bramlett, Delaney Bramlett, Bobby Whitlock	4:57
3.	"Comin' Home"	Bonnie Bramlett, Delaney Bramlett, Eric Clapton	5:30
4.	"Little Richard Medley – Tutti Frutti/The Girl Can't Help It/Long Tall Sally/Jenny Jenny"	Richard Penniman, Bobby Troup	5:45

2010 deluxe edition box set

Disc one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Intro / Tuning"	0:41
2.	"Opening Jam"	5:00
3.	"Gimme Some Lovin'" (Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis, Muff Winwood)	3:50
4.	"Band Introductions"	1:36
5.	"Only You Know and I Know" (Dave Mason)	4:35
6.	"Medley: Poor Elijah / Tribute to Johnson" (Delaney Bramlett, Jim Ford, Leon Russell)	5:19
7.	"Get Ourselves Together" (D. Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett, Carl Radle)	3:01
8.	"I Don't Know Why" (D. Bramlett, B. Bramlett, Eric Clapton)	5:09
9.	"Where's There's a Will, There's a Way" (B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, Bobby Whitlock)	4:30
10.	"That's What My Man Is For" (Bessie Griffin)	3:44
11.	"Medley: Pour Your Love on Me / Just Plain Beautiful" (Homer Banks, B. Bramlett / Steve Cropper, Bettye Crutcher)	9:21
12.	"Everybody Loves a Winner" (Booker T. Jones, William Bell)	4:48
13.	"Things Get Better" (Cropper, Eddie Floyd, Wayne Jackson)	4:09
14.	"Coming Home" (B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, Clapton)	4:49
15.	"I Don't Want to Discuss It" (Beth Beatty, Dick Cooper, Ernie Shelby)	5:19
16.	"Little Richard Medley: Tutti Frutti / The Girl Can't Help It / Long Tall Sally / Jenny Jenny" (Richard Penniman, Bobby Troup)	8:52
17.	"My Baby Specializes" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter)	4:19

Disc two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Intro / Tuning"	0:39
2.	"Opening Jam"	4:39
3.	"Gimme Some Lovin'" (S. Winwood, Davis, M. Winwood)	4:10
4.	"Things Get Better" (Cropper, Floyd, Jackson)	3:49
5.	"Medley: Poor Elijah / Tribute to Johnson" (D. Bramlett, Ford, Russell)	5:37
6.	"I Don't Know Why" (D. Bramlett, B. Bramlett, Clapton)	5:23
7.	"Medley: Pour Your Love on Me / Just Plain Beautiful" (Banks, B. Bramlett / Cropper, Crutcher)	8:42
8.	"Where There's a Will, There's a Way" (B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, Whitlock)	4:12
9.	"Coming Home" (B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, Clapton)	4:50
10.	"Little Richard Medley: Tutti Frutti / The Girl Can't Help It / Long Tall Sally / Jenny Jenny" (Penniman, Troup)	7:13
11.	"I Don't Want to Discuss It" (Beatty, Cooper, Shelby)	5:19
12.	"Crowd / Announcement"	2:56

Disc three
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Intro / Tuning"	0:51
2.	"Gimme Some Lovin'" (S. Winwood, Spencer Davis, M. Winwood)	4:01
3.	"Introduction"	0:44
4.	"Things Get Better" (Cropper, Floyd, Jackson)	4:59
5.	"Medley: Poor Elijah / Tribute to Johnson" (D. Bramlett, Ford, Russell)	7:17
6.	"I Don't Know Why" (D. Bramlett, B. Bramlett, Clapton)	5:35
7.	"Where There's a Will, There's a Way" (B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, Whitlock)	5:27
8.	"That's What My Man Is For" (Griffin)	5:03
9.	"I Don't Want to Discuss It" (Beatty, Cooper, Shelby)	5:33
10.	"Coming Home" (B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, Clapton)	7:51

Disc four
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Intro / Tuning"	1:25
2.	"Gimme Some Lovin'" (S. Winwood, Davis, M. Winwood)	4:24
3.	"Pigmy" (Mel Brown, Billy Larkin, Henry Swarn)	8:51
4.	"Introductions"	1:31
5.	"Things Get Better" (Cropper, Floyd, Jackson)	4:50
6.	"Medley: Poor Elijah / Tribute to Johnson" (D. Bramlett, Ford, Russell)	5:30
7.	"Only You Know and I Know" (Mason)	5:28
8.	"Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" (A. P. Carter)	3:54
9.	"Where There's a Will, There's a Way" (B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, B. Whitlock)	5:23
10.	"I Don't Know Why" (D. Bramlett, B. Bramlett, Clapton)	5:58
11.	"That's What My Man Is For" (Mason)	4:56
12.	"Coming Home" (B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett, Clapton)	7:42
13.	"Little Richard Medley: Tutti Frutti / The Girl Can't Help It / Long Tall Sally / Jenny Jenny" (Penniman, Troup)	6:17

Personnel

Bonnie Bramlett — vocals
Delaney Bramlett — guitars, vocals
Eric Clapton — lead guitars, vocals
Leon Russell — guitars, keyboards
Dave Mason — guitars
George Harrison — guitars
Bobby Whitlock — organ, keyboards, vocals
Carl Radle — bass guitar
Jim Gordon — drums, percussion
Tex Johnson – percussion
Doug Bartenfeld – guitar
Bobby Keys — saxophone
Jim Price — trombone, trumpet
Rita Coolidge — backing vocals

Production personnel

Jimmy Miller, Delaney Bramlett — producers
Bill Halverson — mixing
Andy Johns, Glyn Johns, Tex Johnson — recording engineers
Jim Price – horn arrangements
Barry Feinstein – photography
Tom Wilkes — design, photography

References

↑ "On Tour with Eric Clapton". Allmusic. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
↑ Christgau, Robert (28 May 1970). "Consumer Guide (10)". The Village Voice (New York). Retrieved 26 June 2013.
↑ Refer to Both Sides Now Publications' Atco Records LP Discography (http://bsnpubs.com/atlantic/atco266389.html).
↑ UK Chart Stats webpage
↑ "Random Notes". Rolling Stone (Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc.) (55): 4. 2 April 1970.