November 2007 Archives

(Updated 5 December 2007) Thursday 29 November 2007 Eric Clapton surprisingly joined Jeff Beck on stage to play two blues songs (Little Brown Bird and You Need Your Love) at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London, UK. Photos of the show at: Redferns Music Picture Library Report submitted by Patrick...

The second staging of Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival found a sweet home in the Second City on July 28, 2007 when many of the world's greatest guitarists convened for a concert benefiting Clapton's Crossroads Centre rehabilitation facility in Antigua. Filmed live at Chicago's Toyota Park, the 2-DVD set Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 From Chicago presents four hours of world-class guitar masters, spanning multiple genre boundaries, performing incendiary solo sets and jamming in unison. Filmed in HD, the set features performances and collaborations by Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, John Mayer, Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson, Robbie Robertson and many more.

Canned Heat first recorded a Christmas single in 1968 as a novelty follow-up to their signature hit On The Road Again. One side was an unlikely pairing with The Chipmunks(!), the other an impromptu studio blues, Christmas Blues. Both are here along with two other versions of Christmas Blues, one live with Dr John, the other - featuring Eric Clapton on guitar - from a 1998 Special Olympics Charity Concert in Washington, DC. To complete this seasonal package the rest of these tracks were recorded in 2006 by the current Canned Heat line-up.

BBC radio DJ Johnnie Walker interviewed Eric Clapton on his Sunday Afternoon Radio Show on 18 November (BBC Radio 2 from 16:30 to 18:30). The radio broadcast is available online for listening at the BBC Radio 2 website for this Johnnie Walker show.

"Rolling Stone Cover to Cover" is a backstage pass to four decades of popular culture--a DVD ROM-based, searchable digital archive of every issue of Rolling Stone magazine from 1967 to 2007. Browse issues 1 through 1026--over 98,000 searchable pages, exactly as they first appeared in print--every story, review, interview and even every ad. This exclusive box set also comes with a photo-filled, 208-page page companion coffee table book providing a vivid behind-the-scenes look at the magazines history, from birth to today. Eric Clapton was the cover on issue 10 (1968) and has been in Rolling Stone magazine quite a few times...

The program premieres on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 (check local listings); watch for the launch of the Web companion on Wednesday, November 21, 2007.

Forget The Beatles and Rolling Stones. It was The Yardbirds who really shaped the future of rock with their trio of brilliant guitar players and daring blend of R&B and progressive pop. As they rapidly moved on from blues roots the group created some truly imaginative hit singles such as ‘For Your Love’ and ‘Shapes Of Things.’ Repertoire Records re-releases includes a whole bunch of Yardbirds material from the 1960s kicking off with a massive double CD compilation ‘Singles As, Bs and EPs’. Other re-releases which contain a lot of bonus material includes ‘The Best Of The Yardbirds’, 'Five Live Yardbirds' (8 bonus tracks), ‘For Your Love’ (13 bonus tracks), ‘Live At The Crawdaddy’, ‘Having A Rave Up’ (11 bonus tracks).

Via the link below you can watch 9 videos with Eric Clapton talking about the following topics: - Going Into The Unknown - Concert For Bangladesh - Songs Expression Emotions - Bob Marley And Robert Johnson - Writing About Sobriety - Being A Purist Early On - The Future -...

On the heels of a stunning collaboration at the Chicago Crossroads Guitar Festival in July of 2007 and after much speculation, Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton announced today three eagerly anticipated concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden. In what will be one of the must see shows of this decade Winwood and Clapton will perform together February 25th, 26th, 28th, 2008.

The previous mentioned Eric Clapton interview by Larry King is now also available as a podcast edition. Eric joins Larry for an emotional interview and talked about his new book and cd. Watch the The Larry King Podcast interview with Eric Clapton here...

Coinciding with the launch of Eric's new book, ‘Eric Clapton: The Autobiography’, this exhibition delivers unique insights into the musician’s life through previously unseen photographs. Work on show includes personal family photographs, backstage material, performance shots and studio portraits from celebrated photographers such as Terry O’Neill and Eric’s close acquaintance, Christopher Simon Sykes. Also featured are some of Eric’s guitars, original artwork from his albums and material from the Michael Ochs Archive, Getty Images’ newly-acquired music archive.

UMTV please to announce the forthcoming TV release of Sheryl Crow’s new Greatest Hits packaged scheduled for release on November 12th, 2007. This new hits package will feature notable differences to last collection. The limited edition bonus disc features a mixture of b-sides, rarities and live performances. Highlights of which include 'Run Baby Run' with Eric Clapton & Orchestra.....outstanding!