Delaney & Bonnie - Delaney & Bonnie On Tour With Eric Clapton
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Artist: Delaney & BonnieEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 1989-05-18
Music Label: Atco
Soundtracks:
- Things Get Better
- Por Elijah-Tribute To Johnson Medley: Poor Elijah/Tribute
- Only You Know And I Know
- I Don't Want To Discuss It
- That's What My Man Is For
- Where There's A Will, There's A Way
- Coming Home
- Little Richard Medley:Tutti-Frutti/The Girl Can't Help It/Long Tall Sall/Jenny Jenny
Music reviews of Delaney & Bonnie On Tour With Eric Clapton
Music Review: The White Man's Ike and Tina
Rating: 4 Stars
The stardom of Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett rode on the waves of the husband-and-wife musical teams popular in the late 1960's and early 1970's, such as Ike and Tina Turner. Ironically, before marrying Delaney, Bonnie Lynn had performed as an Ikette for Ike and Tina. Possessing loads more combined talent than duos such as The Captain and Tenille, or even Paul McCartney and wife Linda, Delaney and Bonnie were able to attract a stage full of big name performers to tour and record with them. Among the luminaries featured on the 'On Tour' disc are co-headliner Eric Clapton, former Traffic founder Dave Mason, Clapton's future Domino's (Carl Radle on bass, Bobby Whitlock on keyboards, and Jim Gordon on drums), Rita Coolidge on backing vocals, and session horn men extraordinaire Bobby Keys and Jim Price. Percussionist Tex Johnson is also along for the ride, but his conga and bongo drums are completely humbled in the ensuing din. Like Ike and Tina, Delaney and Bonnie possessed a penchant for uping the tempo of their frequent cover songs by several notches, and blowing the competition away in a hail of decibels. The analogy with black artists is also not lost in their song selection, ranging from a medley of Little Richard hits, to a cover of black Gospel singer Bessie Griffin's composition, 'That's What My Man Is For' (as a slow-tempo traditional blues number, it serves as a mid-set respite from the high-energy tracks D & B are best known for), to Delaney Bramlett's tribute to Robert Johnson.
The best tracks on 'On Tour' are neatly distributed amongst the eight total tracks, all of which range between four and six minutes. The opening track, 'Things Get Better', track four, 'I Don't Want To Discuss It', and the Clapton-Bonnie Bramlett composition, 'Coming Home' (the next-to-last track) are all worthy of repeat listens. 'Coming Home', in particular, possesses a distinct Clapton signiture guitar foundation, making it the stand-out track. Despite having Dave Mason in tow, D & B's cover of Mason's 'Only You Know and I Know' can't compete with Mason's own rendition(s), despite reaching #20 on the pop charts in 1970 (D & B's only other charting song, 'Never Ending Song of Love', charted out at number 13). The remaining tracks are rather generic, although the impressive instrumentation is admirable track after track.
This March, 1970 release was recorded in Croydon, England, and the crowd, given the combined on-stage presence of guitar hero's Clapton and Mason (fresh from his epic release 'Alone Together'), are noticably enthused at witnessing what even then had to be considered an historic performance. The packaging of the disc doesn't do justice to its importance, however. The recordings themselves have never been remastered, nor has the disc been expanded with unreleased tracks, which certainly must exist. Nevertheless the sound is exceptional, given the era in which it was recorded. For fans of white-soul music, as well as followers of Eric Clapton, the disc would have to be considered essential. For everyone else, it all depends on how the Delaney and Bonnie 'sound' sounds to you.
Description of Delaney & Bonnie On Tour With Eric Clapton
In mid-1969, Delaney & Bonnie whose rock/soul/blues group had '& Friends' added to its name because of its ever-evolving personnel were invited by Eric Clapton to open for Blind Faith's U.K. tour. Legend has it that Clapton's pal George Harrisonsuggested the pairing (Delaney is credited with having taught Harrison to play slide guitar), and it was a match made in rock 'n' roll heaven. Clapton continued to play and record with Delaney & Bonnie following Blind Faith's dissolution, and ON TOUR WITH ERIC CLAPTON recorded in December '69 and released in mid-1970 captures a peak moment in their star-crossed musical paths.
They never played better, and on Rhino's new 180-gram vinyl edition, this historic concert recording has never sounded more alive.
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