Eric Clapton & BB King - Riding with the King - 180g 2LP set on limited GOLD vinyl

B.B. King with Eric Clapton 
Riding With the King 
Surfdog 33636 - re-issue 2 LP set on limited GOLD vinyl in a thick gatefold jacket 

     Two guitar legends - Eric Clapton and B.B. King - first performed together in NYC in 1967. Over 30 years later, in 1999, the two longtime friends joined forces to create a collection of all new studio recordings of blues classics and contemporary songs. The resulting album Riding with the King would be released in June 2000 and go onto sell over 2 million copies and win the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. Now, to honor B.B.'s 100th birthday, the remastered expanded edition is being reissued on 180g gold vinyl.
     Two additional previously unreleased tracks have been added to the album: The blues standard “Rollin’ and Tumblin’” and a cover of Willie Dixon’s “Let Me Love You Baby”. Both tracks were recorded during the original sessions and were produced and mixed especially for this release by Simon Climie, who produced the original album with Clapton. The album features five Dixon originals, plus a selection of covers from writers as diverse as Isaac Hayes (“Hold On I’m Coming”), Johnny Mercer (“Come Rain Or Come Shine”) and “Big” Bill Broonzy (“Key To The Highway”). John Hiatt wrote the album’s title track. The album features an all-star line-up of musicians: Andy Fairweather Low, Steve Gadd, Nathan East, Joe Sample, Doyle Bramhall II, Susannah and Wendy Melvoin, and Jim Keltner. The celebrated producer and arranger Arif Martin contributed string arrangements and orchestration to two tracks.

     Tracks are; 
Riding With the King
Ten Long Years
Key to the Highway
Marry You
Three O'Clock Blues
Help the Poor
I Wanna Be
Worried Life Blues
Days of Old
When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer
Hold On I'm Coming
Come Rain or Come Shine
Rollin' and Tumblin'  **
Let Me Love You Baby **

NEW SEALED re-issue 2 LP set on limited GOLD vinyl in a thick gatefold jacket