Eric Clapton Live: Redemption Songs
With Robert Johnson salute, Eric Clapton can be forgiven (almost): Aidin Vaziri | At the heart of the show was not the staggering 20-minute tear through "Got to Get Better in a Little While" -- although that was a close second -- but the concert-within-a-concert in which Clapton turned the lights down low and pulled out a chair to run through five wild-eyed covers, including "They're Red Hot" and "If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day," songs composed in 1936 by Delta blues king Robert Johnson, who quite convincingly sold his soul to the devil before he passed away. For a moment, it was easy to forgive him for that guest spot on Lionel Richie's "Dancing on the Ceiling." But not the Michelob commercial.
posted by Aidin at Wednesday, August 04, 2004
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