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, UK
Genre	Rock
Length	42:35 (incl. stage announcements and crowd noise)
Label	Atco
Producer	Jimmy Miller, Delaney Bramlett
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends chronology
Accept No Substitute (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]
Glorious Noise	Recommended [2]

On Tour with Eric Clapton is the third album by Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, released on Atco Records in 1970, catalog SD 33-326. It peaked at #29 on the Billboard 200, at #39 on the British album chart, and was certified a gold record by the RIAA.^[3]

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 Dominoes 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.^[4]

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

Royal Albert Hall 12/1/69

1. Intro/Tuning
2. Opening Jam
3. Gimme Some Lovin'
4. Band Introductions
5. Only You Know And I Know
6. Medley: Poor Elijah/Tribute To Johnson
7. Get Ourselves Together
8. I Don't Know Why
9. Where's There's A Will, There's A Way
10. That's What My Man Is For
11. Medley: Pour Your Love On Me/Just Plain Beautiful
12. Everybody Loves A Winner
13. Things Get Better
14. Coming Home
15. I Don't Want To Discuss It
16. Little Richard Medley: Tutti Frutti/The Girl Can't Help It/Long Tall Sally/Jenny Jenny
17. My Baby Specializes

Disc two

Colston Hall 12/2/69

1. Intro/Tuning
2. Opening Jam
3. Gimme Some Lovin'
4. Things Get Better
5. Medley: Poor Elijah/Tribute To Johnson
6. I Don't Know Why
7. Medley: Pour Your Love On Me/Just Plain Beautiful
8. Where There's A Will, There's A Way
9. Coming Home
10. Little Richard Medley: Tutti Frutti/The Girl Can't Help It/Long Tall Sally/Jenny Jenny
11. I Don't Want To Discuss It
12. Crowd/Announcement

Disc three

Fairfield Hall 12/7/69 first show

1. Intro/Tuning
2. Gimme Some Lovin'
3. Introduction
4. Things Get Better
5. Medley: Poor Elijah/Tribute To Johnson
6. I Don't Know Why
7. Where There's A Will, There's A Way
8. That's What My Man Is For
9. I Don't Want To Discuss It
10. Coming Home

Disc four

Fairfield Hall 12/7/69 second show

1. Intro/Tuning
2. Gimme Some Lovin'
3. Pigmy (Instrumental)
4. Introductions
5. Things Get Better
6. Medley: Poor Elijah/Tribute To Johnson
7. Only You Know And I Know
8. Will The Circle Be Unbroken
9. Where There's A Will, There's A Way
10. I Don't Know Why
11. That's What My Man Is For
12. Coming Home
13. Little Richard Medley: Tutti Frutti/The Girl Can't Help It/Long Tall Sally/Jenny Jenny

Personnel

• Bonnie Bramlett — vocals
• Delaney Bramlett — guitars, vocals
• Eric Clapton — guitars, vocals
• Leon Russell — guitars, keyboards
• Dave Mason, George Harrison — guitars
• Bobby Whitlock — organ, keyboards, vocals
• Carl Radle — bass guitar
• Jim Gordon — drums, percussion
• Tex Johnson — percussion
• 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

1. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r66510
2. ^ http://www.gloriousnoise.com/reviews/2009/delaney_bonnie_friends_on_tour.php
3. ^ UK Chart Stats webpage
4. ^ "Random Notes". Rolling Stone (Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc.) (55): 4. April 2, 1970. 

See also

• Derek and the Dominoes
• Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
• All Things Must Pass