Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007
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| Directed by | Martyn Atkins |
| Cinematography | Jürg V. Walther |
| Edited by | William Bullen |
| Distributed by | Rhino · Warner |
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240 minutes |
| Language | English |
Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 is the Rhino Entertainment and Warner Brothers release to the 2007 Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival. The concert was recorded on July 28, 2007 at the Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Illinois. The recordings were released on both Compact Disc and DVD on November 28, 2007 in the United States. The CD and DVD releases sold more than two million copies worldwide and reached various international charts.
All of the 28,000 concert ticket had been sold in less than 22 minutes, topping the international concert sales chart in May 2007. All the ticket sales proceeds from the event as well as the CD and DVD sales proceeds goes directly to the Crossroads Foundation. The actual amount of recording that was done throughout the whole concert day was eleven hours. The events host was Bill Murray, who also played "Gloria" with Clapton at the beginning of the event. Murray guided the viewers throughout the event, introduced artists and recalled a little bit of their impact on the American music scene. He also put on iconic outfits, that Clapton wore during his career: the suit and hair Clapton wore, when performing for the Rainbow Concert in 1973 and being with the band Cream throughout the 1960s.
AllMusic critic Hal Horowitz rates the release with four out of possible five stars and thinks that "Guitar is the operative word here, since all the participants are six-string players". Horowitz also rates the variety of music genres as superb and sums his review up by saying: "The DTS surround sound is superb, the camera work classy if occasionally too arty, and the top-notch presentation worthy of the high-quality music and artists involved".
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
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