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Eric Clapton will complement the upcoming home release of the revealing documentary Life in 12 Bars with a massive soundtrack featuring five unreleased songs.

The Life in 12 Bars soundtrack – which features songs from all of the Clapton-affiliated bands and solo work as well as tracks by the Beatles, Muddy Waters and Aretha Franklin – arrives June 8th on CD and digitally, while a 4-LP version will hit shelves on July 20th.

The previously unreleased tracks include a mammoth 17-minute version of "Spoonful" that Cream performed live in 1968 during the band's farewell tour, plus Clapton's full-length version of his Bob Marley cover "I Shot the Sheriff." A live rendition of Derek & The Dominos' version of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing," Clapton's live take on Chuck Berry's "Little Queenie" from 1974 and the unearthed Derek & The Dominos track "High" (later rerecorded for Clapton's solo LP There's One in Every Crowd) round out the unreleased songs.

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