Live at the Fillmore (Derek and the Dominos)
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Live at the Fillmore is a live double album
Double album
A double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs....

, recorded by Derek and the Dominos
Derek and the Dominos
Derek and the Dominos were a blues rock band formed in the spring of 1970 by guitarist and singer Eric Clapton with keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, bassist Carl Radle and drummer Jim Gordon, who had all played with Clapton in Delaney, Bonnie & Friends...

 in two performances at the Fillmore East
Fillmore East
The Fillmore East was rock promoter Bill Graham's rock venue on Second Avenue near East 6th Street in the East Village neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City. It was open from 1968 to 1971, and featured some of the biggest acts in rock music at the time...

 in October 1970. Released February 22, 1994
1994 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994.-January–February:*January 25 – Alice in Chains release their Jar of Flies album which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so....

, it includes material from the In Concert
In Concert (Derek and the Dominos album)
In Concert is a live double album, recorded by Derek and the Dominos in October 1970 at the Fillmore East and released January 1973.Six of the album's nine tracks were subsequently included on the 1994 album Live at the Fillmore...

album, live material from Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...

's Crossroads
Crossroads (box set)
Crossroads is a music collection box set by Eric Clapton. The set includes his work with The Yardbirds, John Mayall's Blues Breakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, and Derek and the Dominos, as well as his solo career...

box set, and several previously unreleased numbers.

The set-list features numbers from the album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is a blues-rock album by Derek and the Dominos, released in November 1970, best known for its eponymous title track, "Layla"...

, several covers of early Blues songs and "Presence of The Lord", first recorded by Clapton's previous band, Blind Faith
Blind Faith
Blind Faith were an English blues-rock band that consisted of Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech. The band, which was one of the first "super-groups", released their only album, Blind Faith, in August 1969...

. It also contains a new arrangement of Robert Johnson's signature song, "Crossroads" that he had previously covered with Cream
Cream (band)
Cream were a 1960s British rock supergroup consisting of bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker...

.

Disc 1

  1. "Got To Get Better In A Little While" (Eric Clapton
    Eric Clapton
    Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...

    ) – 13:52
  2. "Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?" (Bobby Whitlock
    Bobby Whitlock
    Robert Stanley 'Bobby' Whitlock is a songwriter and performer, best known as a member of Derek and the Dominos.- Biography :...

    , Eric Clapton) – 14:49
  3. "Key To The Highway
    Key to the Highway
    "Key to the Highway" is a blues standard first recorded by blues pianist Charlie Segar in 1940. The song was also recorded by Jazz Gillum and Big Bill Broonzy in 1940–41, and it was later a R&B record chart success for Little Walter in 1958...

    "(Big Bill Broonzy
    Big Bill Broonzy
    Big Bill Broonzy was a prolific American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played country blues to mostly black audiences. Through the ‘30s and ‘40s he successfully navigated a transition in style to a more urban blues sound popular with white audiences...

    , Charles Segar) – 6:25
  4. "Blues Power" (Eric Clapton, Leon Russell
    Leon Russell
    Claude Russell Bridges , known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music....

    ) – 10:31
  5. "Have You Ever Loved a Woman?
    Have You Ever Loved a Woman?
    "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" is a blues standard written by Billy Myles and recorded by Freddie King as Federal single #12384 in 1960.King's single failed to make an impact on its initial release. However, it was later recorded by Eric Clapton's band Derek and the Dominos for their 1970 album...

    " (Billy Myles
    Billy Myles
    William Myles Nobles , known as Billy Myles, was an American R&B songwriter active in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known for " All My Love" recorded by Jackie Wilson , and "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" recorded by Freddie King , then Eric Clapton .-History:Billy Myles specialised in love ballads...

    ) – 8:16
  6. "Bottle Of Red Wine" (Bonnie Bramlett
    Bonnie Bramlett
    Bonnie Bramlett is an American singer and sometime actress known for her distinctive vocals in rock and pop music. This began in the mid 1960s as a backing singer, forming the husband-and-wife team of Delaney & Bonnie, and continuing to the present day as a solo artist.-Life and career:Bramlett...

    , Eric Clapton) – 5:34

Disc 2

  1. "Tell The Truth" (Bobby Whitlock, Eric Clapton) – 11:28
  2. "Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out" (Jimmy Cox
    Jimmy Cox
    Jimmy Cox was an American songwriter famous for his Depression-era hit "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out"....

    ) – 5:33
  3. "Roll It Over" (Bobby Whitlock, Eric Clapton) – 6:40
  4. "Presence Of The Lord" (Eric Clapton) – 6:16
  5. "Little Wing
    Little Wing
    "Little Wing" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix. It was first recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience on their 1967 album Axis: Bold as Love...

    " (Jimi Hendrix
    Jimi Hendrix
    James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...

    ) – 7:00
  6. "Let It Rain" (Bonnie Bramlett, Eric Clapton) – 19:46
  7. "Crossroads
    Cross Road Blues
    "Cross Road Blues" is a song by Delta Blues singer Robert Johnson; released on a 78 rpm record in 1936 by Vocalion Records, catalogue 3519. The original version remained out of print after its initial release until the appearance of The Complete Recordings in 1990...

    " (Robert Johnson, arranged by Eric Clapton) – 8:29

Personnel

  • Eric Clapton
    Eric Clapton
    Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...

    : Guitars, vocals
  • Carl Radle
    Carl Radle
    Carl Dean Radle was a bass guitarist who toured and recorded with many of the most influential recording artists of the late 1960s and 1970s...

    : Bass guitar
  • Bobby Whitlock
    Bobby Whitlock
    Robert Stanley 'Bobby' Whitlock is a songwriter and performer, best known as a member of Derek and the Dominos.- Biography :...

    : Piano, Hammond organ, vocals
  • Jim Gordon
    Jim Gordon (musician)
    James Beck "Jim" Gordon is an American recording artist, musician and songwriter. The Grammy Award winner was one of the most requested session drummers in the late 1960s and 1970s, recording albums with many well-known musicians of the time, and was the drummer in the blues-rock supergroup Derek...

    : Drums, percussion
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