Eric Clapton has spent much of his career retreating from his own success — into drugs, reclusiveness or retirement. “The bit onstage, that’s easy,” he said in 2014. “For me, the struggle is the ...

Clapton may have turned 80 in March, but his age didn’t show as he ripped off one blazing guitar solo after another throughout the evening. His voice also sounded strong, although most of the songs’ ...

Cream was one of the most iconic rock supergroups of the 1960s, and it’s wild to think that they were only together for a handful of years. During those years, though, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and ...

More than 25 years after its recording, Eric Clapton’s Nothing but the Blues has finally been released, and one lucky UCR reader will win a Super Deluxe Box Set, valued at over $200! Recorded in 1994 ...

Eric Clapton has been reinventing himself musically for more than 40 years. But the strong pulse of the blues has powered his guitar playing since the beginning: from the Yardbirds when he was 18, ...

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 has ...

Like Jeff Beck and Pete Townshend, Clapton was thrown when Jimi Hendrix arrived on the rock scene ...