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Updated 4 November 2008: Interview with Gregg Allman: Q: What are you planning for the 40-year anniversary shows? A: We're trying to get everybody we ever played with together. Have them all bring their whole band, different opening act every night. Got an e-mail into Clapton and he e-mailed back:...

Updated 24 October 2009: From the performance of Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton "You Need Your Love" was broadcasted. On Friday the 24th of October BBC 4 will broadcast at 9 PM (local time) Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scott's. It is a concert filmed over 5 nights, recorded last year....

NEW YORK, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Silvertone/Zomba recording artist and five time Grammy winner, Buddy Guy, will release a new album titled, Skin Deep on July 22nd. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee has created an album of all original material and enlisted fellow guitar luminaries Eric Clapton, Robert Randolph, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks on his 10th Silvertone/Zomba studio release.

The new David Sanborn CD "Here and Gone" will be released in Japan on June 18 and in the rest of the world August 12 2008. The album was produced by Phil Ramone and guest artists include Eric Clapton, Joss Stone, Sam Moore, Derek Trucks and Anthony Wilson.

Pinetop Perkins and Friends, set for release on Telarc on June 3, 2008 (just a few weeks before Perkins’ 95th birthday on July 7), is just what the title implies – a giant of blues piano surrounded by more than a dozen high-caliber musicians, many of them legendary in their own right, all of whom hold him in the highest regard. Included on the star-studded guest list are guitarists Eric Clapton, B.B. King and Jimmie Vaughan, bassist Willie Kent (who passed away in March 2008), drummer Willie “Big Eyes” Smith and many more.

Martha Velez only issued five albums in her recording career of the 1960s & 1970s. But she has a cult fan following and her albums feature a host of guest musicians. Recorded in 1969, Fiends & Angels is making its worldwide CD debut & features Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Brian Auger, Christine McVie, Jim Capaldi, Mitch Mitchell and the list goes on. Tracks: I'm Gonna Leave You, Swamp Man, A Fool For You, In My Girlish Days, Very Good Fandango, Tell Mama, Feel So Bad, Drive Me Daddy, It Takes Alot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry, Come Here Sweet Man Let The Good Times Roll.

On 10 June 2008 "Like a Fire", the new Solomon Burke cd will be released on the Shout Factory label. Eric Clapton wrote the title track and co-wrote “Thank You” with Solomon.

UPDATED 13 MAY 2008: Link music samples and video in the studio added: Dr. John will release his new cd "City That Care Forgot" on 3 June on 429 Records. This new recording features stirring and thought-provoking songs about the post-Katrina crises in the ravaged jewel of the American South. The cd features a stellar cast of international guest artists including Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Ani Difranco and Terence Blanchard.

UPDATED: Video of Higher Ground "...he jammed out on only one song, adding a blistering guitar solo to a cover of Stevie Wonder's Higher Ground..."

Sonny’s new album is due April 20, and it’ll feature guest appearances by Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Vince Gill, Eric Johnson, Robben Ford, Dr. John and Jimmy Buffett. “The guest thing/duet approach has already been done to no end,” Sonny says. “My hope was to make this different by writing songs specifically for each artist. Because I’m so familiar with their styles, and they’ve all had such an impact on me, I used that connection to make these collaborations have chemistry. I didn’t want this to sound like an album of ‘sit ins,’ I want it to sound more like these friends are in the band.”

You can now listen to the new Steve Winwood single ""Dirty City" from his new album "Nine Lives" on http://www.stevewinwood.com. Eric is playing the last solo on the song. Let's hope they will play this song next week too at MSG, it sounds fantastic - great song and amazing solo!

"We've been talking about doing it a long time and we've messed around with the idea in the past and now we just decided to roll up our sleeves," said Robertson, 64, down the line from his L.A.-area studio this week. 'GOOD STUFF' "We're just feeling it now, so...

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.

Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow, U2, John Mellancamp, Jon Bon Jovi, and Stevie Wonder are among the artists featured on the first-ever DVD collection from the "A Very Special Christmas" series, proceeds from which benefit the Special Olympics.