Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the past, perhaps, they had shared a chuckle after telling a bassoon player to quieten down or tutted, recalling that time when ...
Eric Clapton has been reinventing himself musically for more than 40 years. But the strong pulse of the blues has powered his guitar playing since the beginning: from the Yardbirds when he was 18, ...
Director Lili Fini Zanuck, who used Clapton’s song “Tears in Heaven” in her 1991 movie Rush, has assembled the piece from a patchwork of archive material with interviewees (including Clapton) present ...
Maybe it's best that Eric Clapton has gone back to the blues on the sexy and satisfying history lesson "Me and Mr. Johnson," a 14-track tribute to the brief but bountiful 1930s career of Mississippi ...
John Mayall, who has died aged 90, played a major role in bringing the blues music of the black ghettos to white America, by way of Manchester and London; however, his fame was eclipsed by that of his ...
Clapton may have turned 80 in March, but his age didn’t show as he ripped off one blazing guitar solo after another throughout the evening. His voice also sounded strong, although most of the songs’ ...
This CD cover image released by Bushbranch Records/Surfdog Records shows, "I Still Do," the latest release by Eric Clapton. (Bushbranch Records/Surfdog Records via AP) Eric Clapton, "I Still Do" ...
Is Eric Clapton’s solo in Cream’s version of Crossroads the greatest live blues-rock solo ever recorded? Here, we pose the ...
Eric Clapton once wrote that Robert Johnson's best songs have "never been covered by anyone else, at least not very successfully -- because how are you going to do them?" Now the rock guitarist has ...
John Mayall, the British blues musician whose influential band the Bluesbreakers was a training ground for Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood and many other superstars, has died. He was 90. A statement on ...
Normally closed for events in July, and August, World Records couldn’t resist opening up for a classic rock experience. On Saturday, the downtown venue will host The Cream of Clapton Band, which will ...