Eric Clapton News

It certainly isn't the word I would use to describe Resurrection, the Fredericton-based Neilsen's latest musical foray.

After 2005's "Try!" and 2006's "Continuum," John Mayer seemed to have jumped into maturity as a songwriter and was prepared to enter a new phase of his career.

My favorite time of the year is almost here again, with the arrival of the ninth annual Greeley Blues Jam.

Backbeat Books will publish the first volume of Eric Clapton, Day by Day: The Early Years: 1963-1982 on May 28, 2013.

Mack Emerman, the founder of Criteria Recording Studios where acts including Eric Clapton, James Brown and the Bee Gees made some of their most famous records, has died after a long illness, according to his daughter.

Best remembered for his hell-raising and womanising ways as a guitar 'god', former first-division wild man of rock Eric Clapton is about to achieve a rather more sedate sobriquet: grandad.

Description: Some of the biggest hitmakers in rock n roll history are not lead singers, guitar players, or songwriters, although many of this week's featured artists do all of these things and more.

Two living legends of British blues, John Mayall and Kim Simmonds, will take the stage Saturday night at the Honokaa People's Theater as part of a four-night, four-island tour billed as "The British Blues Explosion." The 79-year-old Mayall is a legendary vocalist and multi-instrumentalist whose Bluesbreakers served as a springboard for numerous ... (more)

Actress/model KELLY BROOK is facing almost 500 in fines after failing to renew the road tax licence on her luxury vehicle.

Before he wielded the hammer of the gods - and a Les Paul - as a member of mighty Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page was a Telecaster-wielding Yardbird.

John Mayall has been called "The Father of British Blues," with good reason. As bandleader and songwriter for John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers , he was instrumental in launching the British blues boom in the 1960s.

John Mayer has recently announced that he will be touring for the first time in nearly 3 years.

Guitarist Eric Clapton brought his world tour to the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland last night.

I must have done something nice for someone at some point in my life because fate rewarded me with a last minute ticket to the annual benefit show presented at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center featuring the complete orchestra together with Crosby, Stills and Nash.

Buddy Guy has earned another hefty trophy, adding to a crowded mantle. NARM presented Guy its prestigious Chairman's Award for Sustained Creative Achievement Thursday night in Los Angeles.

The longer you live in this world, the more you come to realize that everything you think you know for certain to be true is in fact, wrong.

Keyboard maestro Chuck Leavell appeared onstage last night with The Rolling Stones during the midst of their 50 & Counting tour in San Jose, Calif.

Actor and musician Hugh Laurie interviews one of his musical heroes, Chris Barber - a man he credits with introducing many black blues singers to UK audiences in the 1950s and '60s. Internationally known as a traditional jazz trombone player, Barber says British audiences immediately loved performers like Muddy Waters who influenced the first ... (more)

The House of Blues Las Vegas inducted Carlos Santana into its Blues God Ceiling Tuesday.

As Pattie Boyd talks about old photos of George Harrison and Eric Clapton, she remains - perhaps appropriately, given that she was the inspiration for Clapton's love-lorn "Layla" - unable to decide which had been more inspirational.