{"id":1749,"date":"2011-03-17T21:58:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T04:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2011-03-17T21:58:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T04:58:02","slug":"various-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/various-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"VARIOUS ARTISTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>V<\/strong>ARIOUS ARTISTS <\/strong><\/p>\n

Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[Rhino]<\/p>\n

DVD REVIEW<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rock \u2019n\u2019 roll as a genre couldn\u2019t exist without the electric guitar. That means Eric Clapton\u2019s Crossroads Guitar Festival, put on by the guitar legend tri-annually since 2004, is in essence a celebration of rock \u2019n\u2019 roll\u2019s very raison d\u2019\u00eatre<\/em>. For each event Clapton handpicks a lineup of axe slingers that embraces a broad range of styles and generations, from his own contemporaries and influences to up-and-comers who\u2019d love to be the next Eric Clapton. The third outing, held in June at Toyota Park in Chicago, sported relative youngsters like John Mayer, Derek Trucks and Doyle Bramhall II alongside elder statesmen like Clapton, Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy\u2014not to mention really<\/em> elder statesmen like 78-year-old Hubert Sumlin, who performed with his oxygen tank at the ready.
\nWith all that talent on display, naturally Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010<\/em> can\u2019t help but be stuffed full of top-shelf six-string voodoo. Lovingly shot by director Martyn Atkins and punctuated with knockabout stage introductions by guitar fanatic Bill Murray, the two-disc set is always engaging and occasionally electrifying. As with most various-artist DVDs of its type, your enjoyment of Crossroads<\/em> will wax and wane along with your interest in the performers onscreen at any given time\u2014and the ever-humble Clapton doesn\u2019t stint on giving plenty of room to acts much farther down the bill than himself. \u201cAre you sick of the sound of the electric guitar yet?\u201d Clapton asks the crowd as his headlining set finally begins. The answer is obvious, and one imagines it will always be thus. \u2013CN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VARIOUS ARTISTS Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010 [Rhino] DVD REVIEW Rock \u2019n\u2019 roll as a genre couldn\u2019t exist without the electric guitar. That means Eric Clapton\u2019s Crossroads Guitar Festival, put on by the guitar legend tri-annually since 2004, is in essence a celebration of rock \u2019n\u2019 roll\u2019s very raison d\u2019\u00eatre. For each event Clapton handpicks a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,1273,1114,1175,274,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1751,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}