Electric Blue (Děčín) - Club Red Hot & Blues, Prague, Jakubská 12
On March 10, 1968, Cream recorded a live version "Crossroads" from their performance at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The version was arranged by guitarist Eric Clapton, and included two lines borrowed from Johnson's "Traveling Riverside Blues." Clapton's guitar solos his work from the track was named by one critic the greatest live rock solo ever. The same critic also named Bruce's bass playing the second-best live bass performance. Cream's cover of the song was placed at #409 on the 2004 List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and #3 on the 2008 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time. The song also ranks #10 on Guitar World's 100 Greatest Guitar Solos. A cover version of this version is a playable track in the music video game Guitar Hero. Clapton's rehab center in Antigua is called "Crossroads." Eric Clapton had previously recorded the song in 1966 with his band Eric Clapton's Powerhouse, but instead of a guitar riff the main focus of the song was a harmonica riff played by Paul Jones. Other artists who have covered the song range from:
- The Doors during their 1970 Live in Detroit Concert/CD and the recent release Live in Pittsburgh 1970
- Bob Dylan performed a variation, "Down the Highway", for his second album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.
- Cowboy Junkies
- Derek & The Dominos
- Dion on Bronx in Blue 2006
- Free (live)
- Elmore James
- The Hamsters (live)
- Ibex (live)
- Lynyrd Skynyrd (live)
- Jimi Hendrix (live)
- Journey
- Rush
- Ten Years After
- The Allman Joys
- Van Halen (live)
- Robin Trower (on Another Days Blues)
- Steve Miller Band (live)
- Molly Hatchet (live)
- Janell Mosser on the Boys on the Side soundtrack, 1995
- Mountain (live)
- Smak (live)
- Stephen Stills (Indiana University's Assembly Hall, Indiana, USA - 19 October 1972)
- Jeff Berlin on Pump It 1986
- Page and Plant (live)
- John Mayer (On album Battle Studies/live)
- The Radiators (live)
- Stoney Larue (live)
- Son Of Dave
- Racer X (live)
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