Winwood wasn’t the only of the less-celebrated guitarists on the bill to dazzle the Crossroads crowd. Fantasy,” Clapton’s “Cocaine” and “Crossroads.” The Band’s Robbie Robertson stepped up on a pair of songs - “Who Do You Love,” done as a tribute to the recovering Bo Diddley, and a sharp version of “Further on Up the Road” - and Steve Winwood came out from behind his Hammond organ to demonstrate some potent guitar skills on Blind Faith’s “Can’t Find My Way Home,” Traffic’s “Dear Mr. Then, he brought his band on stage for a stellar 100-minute set that liberally sampled the Derek & the Dominoes ouvre - all the better to highlight slide specialist Derek Trucks - and paid homage to the late George Harrison with a rendition of his “Isn’t it a Pity.” And no one was in better form than the host himself, jamming with Sonny Landreth (on “Hell at Home”) and chugging through “Tulsa Time” with Vince Gill, Sheryl Crow, Albert Lee and Jerry Douglas. So it was indeed a merry, if sticky, day at the Crossroads, as Clapton and 22 of his six-string wielding friends maintained a consistently high and sometimes jaw-droppingly phenomenal standard over the course of 11 hours. But when the show actually hits the stage, as it did for a second time at Toyota Park in suburban Chicago, the message is more like this - Can there be too much guitar music in one day?Īnd as far as the 28,000 attending this year’s Crossroads even were concerned, the more the merrier. There’s a higher purpose to Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival, raising money for the legendary axeman’s Crossroads Centre rehabilitation center in Antigua.
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