ERIC CLAPTONCROSSROADS 2: LIVE IN THE SEVENTIES POSTERCategory / Style: Rock Album Rock Hard Rock Adult Contemporary Pop/Rock British Blues Blues-RockARTIST: ERIC CLAPTONTITLE: CROSSROADS 2: LIVE IN THE SEVENTIESITEM: POSTER DATE/LABEL/VENUE: 1996 POLYDOR/CHRONICLES PROMOAPPROXIMATE SIZE IN INCHES: 18 x 24CONDITION: 8 OF 10 OR BETTER ROLLED, UNHUNGTOUGH TO FIND ORIGINAL IN EXCELLENT SHAPE!stock photoTRACKS:1.Walkin' Down the Road2.Have You Ever Loved a Woman3.Willie and the Hand Jive/Get Ready4.Can't Find My Way Home5.Driftin' Blues/Rambling on My Mind6.Presence of the Lord7.Rambling on My Mind/Have You Ever Loved a Woman8.Little Wing9.The Sky Is Crying/Have You Ever Loved a Woman/Rambling on My Mind10.Layla11.Further on up the Road12.I Shot the Sheriff13.Badge14.Driftin' Blues15.Eyesight to the Blind/Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?16.Tell the Truth17.Knockin' on Heaven's Door18.Stormy Monday19.Lay Down Sally20.The Core21.We're All the Way22.Cocaine23.Goin' Down Slow/Rambling on My Mind24.Mean Old Frisco25.Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever26.Worried Life Blues27.Tulsa Time28.Early in the Morning29.Wonderful Tonight30.Kind Hearted WomanReview by Stephen Thomas Erlewine Crossroads was a box set that appealed to both beginners and fanatics. Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies only appeals to fanatics. Spanning four discs and consisting almost entirely of live material (there are a handful of studio outtakes), this is music that will only enthrall completists and archivists. For those listeners, there is a wealth of fascinating, compelling performances here, as well as a fair share of mediocre, uninspired tracks. The key word for the entire album is detail -- it is an album for studying the intricacies of Eric Clapton's playing and how it evolved. For example, it's easy to hear the differences and progressions between the four versions of Robert Johnson's "Rambling on My Mind." And it is Clapton that evolves, not his supporting band -- although they are proficient, they are hardly exciting. However, their static, professional support provides a nice bed to chart Slowhand's growth over the course of the decade, simply because he is always the focal point. Crossroads 2 may only be for a collector, but for those collectors, it is a treasure, even if some of the tracks are fool's gold. "By the time Eric Clapton launched his solo career with the release of his self-titled debut album in August 1970, he was long established as one of the world's major rock stars due to his group affiliations -- the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, and Blind Faith -- affiliations that had demonstrated his claim to being the best rock guitarist of his generation. That it took Clapton so long to go out on his own, however, was evidence of a degree of reticence unusual for one of his stature. And his debut album, though it spawned the Top 40 hit "After Midnight," was typical of his self-effacing approach: It was, in effect, an album by the group he had lately been featured in, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. Not surprisingly, before his solo debut had even been released, Clapton had retreated from his solo stance, assembling from the D&B&F ranks the personnel for a group, Derek and the Dominos, with which he played for most of 1970. Clapton was largely inactive in 1971 and 1972, due to heroin addiction, but he performed a comeback concert at the Rainbow Theatre in London on January 13, 1973, resulting in the album Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert (September 1973). But Clapton did not launch a sustained solo career until July 1974, when he released 461 Ocean Boulevard, which topped the charts and spawned the #1 single "I Shot the Sheriff." The persona Clapton established over the next decade was less that of guitar hero than arena rock star with a weakness for ballads. The follow-ups to 461 Ocean Boulevard, There's One in Every Crowd (March 1975), the live E.C. Was Here (August 1975), and No Reason to Cry (August 1976), were less successful. But Slowhand (November 1977), which featured both the powerful "Cocaine" (written by J.J. Cale, who had also written "After Midnight") and the hit singles "Lay Down Sally" and "Wonderful Tonight," was a million-seller, and its follow-ups, Backless (November 1978), featuring the Top Ten hit "Promises," the live Just One Night (April 1980), and Another Ticket (February 1981), featuring the Top Ten hit "I Can't Stand It," were all big sellers. Clapton's popularity waned somewhat in the first half of the '80s, as the albums Money and Cigarettes (February 1983), Behind the Sun (March 1985), and August (November 1986) indicated a certain career stasis. But he was buoyed up by the release of the boxed set retrospective Crossroads (April 1988),This exquisite slice of retro Rock'n'Roll Americana history is an original first and only print single sheet paper promotional advertisement (A.K.A. handbill or flyer) for a music recording as released on CD, LP and/or cassette. 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