ERIC CLAPTON & JJ CALE Road To Escondido RARE Ricker RTI TEST PRESS 2 LP SEALED

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ERIC CLAPTON & JJ CALE The Road To Escondido Generic Sleeve Test Pressing New & Sealed Double Album Vinyl LP
Record label/brand: Reprise 44418-1 upc/mpn: None year: 2006
Two records packaged in separate generic white sleeves. The only information on the jacket is what's been stamped on the top right portion of the album (see scan). One stamp is A/B for the first record, second is C/B. Records are new and STILL SEALED. 
Half speed mastered for vinyl by Stan Ricker (MFSL) Plating and Pressing at R.T.I. 180 gram high performance 2 LP
These highly collectible test pressings are from the first stamper and sometimes less than 20 exist. Test pressings reflect the closest you can get to the lacquers and hence have a special collectible value.
Songs:
Side 1 1. Danger 2. Heads In Georgia 3. Missing Person
Side 2 4. When This War Is Over 5. Sporting Life Blues 6. Dead End Road 7. It's Easy
Side 3 8. Hard To Thrill 9. Anyway The Wind Blows 10. Three Little Girls 11. Don't Cry Sister
Side 4 12. Last Will And Testament 13. Who Am I Telling You? 14. Ride The River
Review: Two artists had an enormous impact on Eric Clapton's music in the '70s: Delaney & Bonnie and J.J. Cale. Clapton joined Delaney & Bonnie's backing band after Cream dissolved, an experience that helped him ease away from the bombast of the power trio and into the blend of soul, blues, pop, and rock that defined his solo sound. 
Delaney Bramlett helped steer Clapton's eponymous 1970 solo debut, which not only came very close to replicating the sound of Delaney & Bonnie's records from that time, but also had a rollicking version of J.J. Cale's "After Midnight" that was Clapton's first solo hit. Cale's influence surfaced again a few years later on Clapton's 1978 album Slowhand, which not only had J.J.'s sardonic "Cocaine" as its centerpiece but also drew heavily from Cale's laconic groove. 
Although Clapton progressively polished his sound over the course of the '80s, dabbling in pop along the way, he never quite strayed from the blueprint that he wrote based on his love of Cale's music, so his decision to team up with Cale for a full-fledged duet album called The Road to Escondido in 2006 felt natural, perhaps even overdue. After all, Clapton's work has borne the imprint of Cale's sound for over three decades now, so a duet record 36 years after Eric had a hit with "After Midnight" feels right. 
Initially, Clapton planned to cut a record with Cale functioning as a producer, but the project morphed into a duet album where Cale has a stronger presence than Clapton: the superstar might have brought in his longtime producer/collaborator Simon Climie, who has helmed every one of his records since 1998's Pilgrim, but Cale brought in members of his backing band and wound up writing 11 of the album's 14 tracks, effectively dominating The Road to Escondido. Even if Cale is the driving force behind the album, it's easy to listen to the album and think otherwise, since Climie gives this a precise, polished production that's entirely too slick for the rootsy music the duo plays, which in turn makes it sonically similar to all Clapton albums of the past ten years. Also, there are a lot of cameos from familiar pros (drummer Steve Jordan; bassist Pino Palladino; guitarists Albert Lee, Derek Trucks, and John Mayer; the late Billy Preston in some of his last sessions), giving this a crisp, professional vibe more in line with Clapton than Cale.

Second side should read *C/D*  All four sides are there!