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British-born guitarist Eric Clapton is known for his rampaging rock songs and love of the blues. But not everything the all-timer has put to record is cut from the cloth of songs like “Cocaine” or ...

More than half a century since the release of “Layla,” one of the most iconic tracks in Eric Clapton’s canon, Rita Coolidge ...

Eric Clapton’s fifth solo album Slowhand debuts on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart at No. 2, nearly netting the guitarist another No. 1. British guitarist Eric Clapton performing on stage at the ...

Talking about Eric Clapton can get a little thorny these days. While many recognize him as one of the greatest guitar players ever, he has also had his fair share of controversial moments, whether ...

Lex Williams is a music writer and film critic, who shares her time between North Carolina and New York City. From a young age, Lex has always had a passion for arts in all its forms, having worked in ...

If there’s one song Eric Clapton probably wished he’d never written, it’s Tears In Heaven. A lament to his deceased son Conor, and also full of Clapton’s own self-loathing, it garnered Grammy Awards, ...

For a few years there, Dick Sims admitted recently, he "just lost the feel for music." But the Tulsa Sound musician remembered for his distinctive keyboard work on such Eric Clapton hits as "I Shot ...

Eric Clapton disapproves of bands like U2 and Coldplay as they seem to put their fame before their music. The 61-year-old guitar legend told The Times: "Right now, the power of music sits with Simon ...

Letters central to one of the most famous love triangles in rock history are set to hit the auction block. “Eric wrote the most divine, beautiful letters, and I don’t want to keep reading them,” Boyd ...

If musicians were measured not by the number of records they sold but by the number of peers they influenced, JJ Cale would have been a towering figure in 1970s rock ‘n’ roll. His best songs like ...