Eric Clapton’s double CD ‘One More Car, One More Rider’ features 19 tracks and several of his classics such as "Tears In Heaven," "Bell Bottom lues," "Layla," "Wonderful Tonight," and "Cocaine." This is Clapton's first live CD since his 1992 multiple Grammy-Award winning "Unplugged" and it features songs performed during his worldwide 2001 concert tour. But at its best, it is a backlog of the Clapton that you know and love, full of his typical highlights and sadly with little hint that he is exploring new sounds.

Disc one, despite flashes of Clapton guitar genius comes across as repetitive and the album’s real value lies with the second CD. Disc two is Clapton blues-rock-guitar-genius: It’s the kind of Clapton-blues that you listen to while sipping whisky on a hot summers night; it’s a rock CD that you come home to after a night out when liquor is still running thick (but not unrespectabley so) in your bloodstream and it’s well rounded off to be the kind of CD that you can play as background music on a long car ride through the Karoo.

And so appropriately, Clapton’s rock fans will enjoy “Cocaine”, “Badge” and the special highlight of “Layla” in its original rock form. He’s also given us the bristly blues of the borrowed “Hoochie Coochie Man”, "Have you ever loved a woman" and “I want a little girl” and there’s nostalgia value in “Tears in Heaven” and “Wonderful Tonight”.

‘One More Car, One More Rider’ features Eric's touring band members Nathan East (bass and backing vocals), Steve Gadd (drums), Andy Fairweather Low (guitar and backing vocals), Greg Phillinganes and Billy Preston (Hammond organ and keyboards), and David Sancious (keyboards and guitar).

On the whole, Disc two makes it a worthwhile purchase but unless you are a die-hard Clapton fan I wouldn’t put it on the top of your shopping list.