Eric Clapton Sets Release Date For New Tour Documentary

Eric Clapton is moving to television.

The 69 year-old guitarist just released an album—The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale—that hit No. 2 on the charts, and Rolling Stone reports that Clapton will also be releasing a new tour documentary this fall.

The doc is titled Planes, Trains and Eric, and it will be available Nov. 4 on DVD, Blu-Ray and "other digital formats." It will chronicle the "Far" and Middle Eastern leg of Clapton's 2014 tour, and will include 13 live performances.

Here's the full tracklist (Rolling Stone):

1. Tell The Truth
2. Pretending
3. Crossroads
4. Driftin'
5. I Shot The Sheriff
6. Little Queen of Spades
7. Layla
8. Wonderful Tonight
9. Key To The Highway
10. Before You Accuse Me
11. Tears In Heaven
12. Cocaine
13. Hoochie Coochie Man
14. High Time (Credits - audio only)

Clapton recently told Uncut that the documented tour could be his last.

"The road has become unbearable," he said. "It's become unapproachable, because it takes so long to get anywhere. It's hostile - everywhere: getting in and out of airports, traveling on planes and in cars."

He essentially said the same thing to Rolling Stone last year:

"When I'm 70, I'll stop," Clapton said. "I won't stop playing or doing one-offs, but I'll stop touring, I think."

The singer's newly released studio album features John Mayer, Tom Petty, Derek Trucks, Willie Nelson and Mark Knopfler. Clapton told Billboard that he launched the idea for a Cale tribute while flying to the late performer's funeral in August 2013.

"It just seemed to be a logical progression I would do," Clapton explains. "I was aware of the fact that he's better known in Europe and in the rest of the world than he is in America. That's a bad thing, but it also means I have an opportunity to introduce people to him beyond (the Cale songs) I've recorded. It's astonishing to me that nobody knows anything about him, and it baffles me. I wonder, 'What is it about he stuff that gets to me that nobody else is hearing?' I don't know. I still don't understand that."

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