A previously unreleased Eric Clapton acoustic jam is set for release next year. "Mississippi Blues" was recorded with Tim Duffy and will be part of Blue Muse, a compilation from the Music Maker Relief ...

Including the likes of Prince, Stevie Wonder, Robert Johnson, Ray Charles Muddy Waters and more, Eric Clapton picks his 8 ...

Eric Clapton has spent much of his career retreating from his own success — into drugs, reclusiveness or retirement. “The bit onstage, that’s easy,” he said in 2014. “For me, the struggle is the ...

John Mayall and Eric Clapton were both relatively well known when they joined up for an album on July 22, 1966. But Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton took both artists' careers to new levels and set ...

Last April, Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton turned New York City's premier jazz venue kind of blue when they performed together at the Rose Theater, home of Jazz At Lincoln Center, for two sold-out ...

Eric Clapton is recognized as one of the greatest guitar players of all time. Influenced by the early blues players like Robert Johnson, the British-born musician grew up playing the six-string like ...

Summer 1965. An Immediate records session at Decca studios, 165 Broadhurst Gardens, West Hampstead, North London. Men wearing white lab coats over shirts and ties, their hair neatly trimmed, stand ...

Here’s a look at the best of the songs that even now continue to define his legacy. It starts with Derek and the Dominos because the songs on “Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs” are more of a piece ...

Eric Clapton's first Christmas album Happy Xmas will be released in October. "I had in my head that these holiday songs could be done with a slight blues tinge, and I started to figure out how to play ...

Eric Clapton is a legendary singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for his smooth blues and rock sound. With a career spanning decades, he has won 18 Grammy Awards and is often regarded as one of the ...

In the same way that Louis Armstrong was at center of the genesis of Jazz in the 1920s, so was Eric Clapton at the center of the British Blues invasion of the 1960s. Between 1965 and 1970, in turn, ...

Rocker Eric Clapton's album, "Me and Mr. Johnson," has been an unlikely hit, selling nearly 500,000 copies. The album consists of 14 songs by blues legend Robert Johnson, who died at age 27 in 1938.