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And while Bruce didn’t mention it, after Clapton announced he was departing Cream in 1968, less than two years after it ...
When casting his mind back to the songs he's most inspired by, Eric Clapton picked out one key song from a blues legend as ...
Gilmour says that as a young guitarist he worked out blues solos by Clapton, Hendrix and Howlin' Wolf that later informed his playing with Pink Floyd ...
Eric Clapton is seen in this undated photo playing slide guitar on his 1954 Fender Stratocaster, nicknamed "Slowhand" after the legendary blues guitarist. Gotta Have Rock and Roll ...
One can only imagine how copies of Guitar Hero must get sold after Eric Clapton holds one of his periodic Crossroad Guitar Festival events. This year’s fourth edition — being presented in two ...
Over the course of 100 minutes Monday night in Chicago, Eric Clapton, alongside opening act Jimmie Vaughan, let his guitar do the talking as he traversed the American blues songbook.
Clapton could easily add guitarists and guitar bands from outside that blues-rock home turf, who still cherish the instrument but exploit it in other textural and cultural ways: Wilco, Sonic Youth ...
On Sept. 23-24, Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival will settle down at Los Angeles, CA’s Crypto.com Arena for two days of rock and roll, blues, country and Latin jam sessions.
Halfway through eleven hours of thrilling solos by nearly two dozen of the best guitarists in rock, blues and country, B.B. King paused in his set at the Crossroads Guitar Festival, held July 28th ...
Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival–Evening Two: Concert Review Surprise guest Keith Richards galvanizes the crowd in this second marathon show featuring an all-star lineup of guitarists.