Producer Tom Dowd said the classic live recording may have been edited down from a much longer performance — but even Clapton ...

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Over the weekend in Austin, some of the last half-century's greatest living guitarists convened at Eric Clapton's Crossroads ...

Yesterday, Eric Clapton headlined the second and final night of his Crossroads Guitar Festival, the long-running benefit show ...

With his career ongoing, there are few milestones Eric Clapton hasn’t crossed. He might have sold over 100 million albums as a solo artist, but that was just the start. He also performed in groups ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. It has only been a little more than a year since Eric Clapton ...

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 ...

The song achieved both critical and commercial success, charting first in 1972 again 20 years later as an acoustic version ...

Some of the country's best guitarists flocked to Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival in Austin over the weekend.