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Classic Interview: "I’m not as intimidated by Robert Johnson as I was," Eric Clapton told us in 2004. Entering the studio at the start of that year, the plan had been to record new material. Instead, ...
Classic Interview: "I’m not as intimidated by Robert Johnson as I was," Eric Clapton told us in 2004. Entering the studio at the start of that year, the plan had been to record new material. Instead, ...
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 ...
CLAPTON010252_LI.JPG On his current tour, Eric Clapton is promoting "Me and Mr. Johnson," an album solely composed of blues great Robert Johnson's music performed at the HP Pavillion in San Jose ...
Of course, Eric Clapton remembers the first time he heard Robert Johnson's music. He was 15. Already an aspiring blues guitarist, he would play a limited repertoire in the corner of a pub.
Eric Clapton Me and Mr. Johnson Reprise/Duck 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 ...
Eric Clapton will release an entire album of covers of songs by Robert Johnson on March 23rd. Me and Mr. Johnson will feature the guitar legend’s interpretations of fourteen songs by the Delta ...
Eric Clapton: “Someone had his (first) album and played it to me and that was it. And I was I was completely bowled over.” Clapton's latest CD is a tribute to Johnson, covering 14 of his songs.
Eric Clapton salutes one his biggest musical influences, blues guitarist Robert Johnson, in an upcoming album "Mr. Johnson and Me," which is due out March 23.
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 ...
The end result is curiously bland, bereft of joy or fire, bespeaking an absence of genuine effort to work up imaginative arrangements. Me & Mr. Johnson recalls Eric Clapton’s comeback album 461 Ocean ...
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 ...