Three years ago, Eric Clapton assembled a who's who of guitar masters for the first Crossroads Guitar Festival, raising funds for the Crossroads Centre, Antigua, a chemical dependency treatment and education facility Clapton founded. The sold-out show yielded a double-DVD that has been certified platinum eight times on the way to becoming one of the world's top-selling music DVDs.

In a second stunning effort earlier this year, Clapton invited old friends and new for the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago. Rhino Entertainment captured every angle with a two-DVD set chronicling that scorching summer day in Chicago with CROSSROADS GUITAR FESTIVAL 2007 FROM CHICAGO.

Filmed in HD, the DVDs contain four hours of legendary musicians performing alone and jamming together, along with remarkable footage taken backstage at this six-string summit. Clapton says he created the event so his friends and contemporaries could have fun and play together for a good cause. "The Crossroads Festival is the realization of a dream for me, to gather a group of amazingly talented musicians to perform onstage," he explains. "The Crossroads performers are all musicians I admire and respect."

With 38 tracks, CROSSROADS showcases a wide range of artists from rock, country, jazz, and blues including performances by jazz fusionist John McLaughlin, roots rocker Albert Lee, Chicago blues legend Hubert Sumlin, hit-making singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, Texas bluesman Jimmie Vaughan, slide guitarist Sonny Landreth, Latin rockers Los Lobos, and country star Vince Gill.

A seminar for guitar fanatics, Clapton's set paid tribute to his close friend George Harrison with Isn't It A Pity and revisited Derek & The Dominos with Tell The Truth. Jeff Beck delivered a mind-blowing instrumental set with Big Block. The Robert Cray Band was joined by Vaughn, Sumlin and B.B. King for Sitting On Top Of The World, Rock Me Baby, and Paying The Cost To Be The Boss; while young gun John Mayer flexed his skills with Belief and Gravity.

The concert provided plenty of impressive guitar heroics with some of the world's best guitarists jamming together. Young phenom and member of The Allman Brothers Band, Derek Trucks, battled legendary bluesman Johnny Winters on slide guitar during a rollicking version of Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited. Robbie Robertson made a rare stage appearance playing with Clapton on Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love. Performing together live for the first time in 25 years, Blind Faith band mates Steve Winwood and Clapton soared through a set that included Presence Of The Lord, Dear Mr. Fantasy, Had To Cry Today and Crossroads. The Chicago show ended on a fitting note with Chicago-blues icon Buddy Guy playing a set featuring him solo and leading an all-star jam on Sweet Home Chicago that included Clapton, Cray, Mayer, Sumlin, Vaughan, and Winter.

TRACK LISTINGS

DISC 1

Introduction – Bill Murray
Uberesso – Sonny Landreth
Hell At Home – Sonny Landreth with Eric Clapton
Maharina – John McLaughlin
Rosie – Doyle Bramhall II
Outside Woman Blues – Doyle Bramhall II
Little By Little – Susan Tedeschi with The Derek Trucks Band
Anyday – The Derek Trucks Band
Highway 61 Revisited - Johnny Winter with The Derek Trucks Band
Nobodysoul – Robert Randolph & The Family Band
Poor Johnny – The Robert Cray Band
Dirty Work At The Crossroads – Jimmie Vaughan with The Robert Cray Band
Sitting On Top Of The World - Hubert Sumlin with The Robert Cray Band & Jimmie Vaughan
Paying The Cost To Be The Boss – B.B. King with The Robert Cray Band with Jimmie Vaughan & Hubert Sumlin
Rock Me Baby - B.B. King with The Robert Cray Band with Jimmie Vaughan & Hubert Sumlin
Sweet Thing – Vince Gill
Country Boy – Albert Lee with Vince Gill
If It Makes You Happy - Sheryl Crow with Vince Gill & Albert Lee
Tulsa Time - Sheryl Crow with Eric Clapton, Vince Gill & Albert Lee
Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain - Willie Nelson with Vince Gill & Albert Lee
On the Road Again - Willie Nelson with Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill & Albert Lee

DISC 2

Belief – John Mayer
Gravity – John Mayer
Don’t Worry Baby – Los Lobos
Mas y Mas – Los Lobos
Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers – Jeff Beck
Big Block – Jeff Beck
Tell the Truth – Eric Clapton
Isn’t It A Pity – Eric Clapton
Little Queen of Spades – Eric Clapton
Who Do You Love – Robbie Robertson with Eric Clapton
Presence Of The Lord – Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton
Can't Find My Way Home – Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton
Had To Cry Today – Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton
Dear Mr. Fantasy – Steve Winwood
Crossroads – Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood
Mary Had A Little Lamb – Buddy Guy
Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues – Buddy Guy
Sweet Home Chicago – Buddy Guy with Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, John Mayer, Hubert Sumlin, Jimmie Vaughan & Johnny Winter

This is a NTSC Region 1 DVD.