Over the course of 100 minutes Monday night in Chicago, Eric Clapton, alongside opening act Jimmie Vaughan, let his guitar do the talking as he traversed the American blues songbook.

When Clapton went AWOL, John Mayall tapped Jeff Kribbett to stand in for their aloof deity. Green, having blagged his way into the band’s show at London’s Marquee, didn’t feel Kribbett was ...

“I’m going deaf, I’ve got tinnitus, my hands just about work,” Eric Clapton admitted in 2018. “It’s amazing to me I’m still here.” Yet, indeed, here he was, at 79, strolling ...