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Photo: Eric Clapton and Robert Randolph 5.3.08 Tampa © Cguadagnino - In an interview with Billboard.com Robert Randolph, who is opening for Eric Clapton this Summer Tour, said: "(Clapton) told me he's going back in the studio at the end of this year and he said he wants me to come in when he starts recording his record."

This month Albert Lee's Biography "Country Boy" will be published. Eric Clapton has written the foreword of this book. The author is Derek Watts. In December 1978 Albert Lee met Eric Clapton while they played on a Marc Benno session (for 'Lost In Austin'). In January 1979 he joined Eric Clapton's band. Albert continued to work with Clapton for five years before Eric decided to change his entire band. He performed on 3 albums: "Just One Night", "Another Ticket" and "Money And Cigarettes". "Just One Night" was recorded live at The Budokan Theatre and featured Albert on lead vocals for a cover of Mark Knopfler's "Setting Me Up". Albert played on the 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival that was held at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Illinois on July 28, 2007. "Tulsa Time" with Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow ,Vince Gill & Albert Lee was on the DVD of the concert released in November 2007.

WOW Music Group Presents: Doyle Bramhall II brings forth the blistering guitar work, compatible with legendary artists, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Eric Clapton from the steps of the Great Wall of China. This 70 min HD broadcast musical event and DVD features a once in a lifetime performance by Doyle at the Great Wall of China, along with exclusive interviews with Doyle in the City of Beijing during his visit to China. The commentary that is given by Eric Clapton describes Doyle as one of only a handful of guitar players that have the gift. Eric Clapton performs with Doyle on this broadcast and has so much respect for the young singer/Guitarist, went as far as to record four of his songs.

Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton are featured in the cover story of 20th Century Guitar's February 2008 issue.

Eric joined Gary Brooker's No Stiletto Shoes on stage for a hour at the Chiddingfold Club, Surrey. Setlist Santa Claus is Back In Town Shotgun Get Up (Stand up For Your Rights) Route 66 Gin House Willie & The Hand Jive (Eric Clapton on vocals) Old Black Joe High School...

Long John Baldry is considered the father of the '60s British blues movement. Drawing on intimate anecdotes from Baldry's legendary friends, lovers, and peers, author Paul Myers uncovers the man behind the mythic persona in this book. An entire generation of British rock legends flourished under Baldry's tutelage, and "It Ain't Easy" features exclusive personal recollections from artists such as Sir Elton John, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Sir Paul McCartney, John Mayall, and Mick Fleetwood, as well as interviews with renowned music industry insiders like songwriter/producer Tony Macaulay, Yardbirds manager Giorgio Gomelsky, ex-Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, filmmaker Cameron Crowe, and others. Extensively researched, "It Ain't Easy" traces Baldry's extraordinary life from his birth during the London Blitz, to his discovery of black American music, to the sexual revolution, to the musical and social upheaval of the 1960s and '70s, and to his eventual happy retreat to the tranquility of Canada's Pacific Coast.

For the first time, a member of the world's most famous rock 'n' roll band tells his--and their--story. Raw, unsanitized, nasty and fascinating. An incredible journey. A fascinating portrait not just of the Stones, but of the greatest rockers of the 1960's and beyond--from Eric Clapton to Rod Stewart, Jimmy Page to Keith Moon, Jimi Hendrix to Pete Townshend--RONNIE WOOD is a rich, revelatory book. Readers have never had a view of the rock world like this before.

This solid compilation features twenty tracks, many of them bona fide hits, most of them instantly familiar. What this disc underscores, besides the songs themselves, is the quality of musicians that Starr worked with in making them, from his three former bandmates to the likes of Elton John, Billy Preston, and Eric Clapton.

Martin Scorsese will direct a documentary film on the late Beatles guitarist George Harrison. "Harrison's music and his search for spiritual meaning is a story that still resonates today and I'm looking forward to delving deeper," Scorsese said in an e-mailed press release Thursday September 27, 2007. "It would have...

Singer/Songwriter Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds returned to store shelves, as he released his new album "Playlist" on September 18th. The artist responsible for soulful and sensible hits like "When Can I See You Again," and "Change The World," switched it up for this release. Playlist is comprised almost entirely of covers, the exceptions being "The Solider Song," and "Not Going Nowhere." For Playlist, Edmonds decided to put his own twist on tracks such as "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" by Bob Dylan, "Shower The People" and "Fire and Rain" by James Taylor, "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton, "Diary" by Bread, Jim Croce's "Time In A Bottle," Dan Fogelberg's "Longer," and "Please Come To Boston" by Dave Loggins.

The extremely gifted and multi-genre guitarist Derek Trucks is the nephew of the Allman Brothers' drummer Butch Trucks. Derek Trucks plays a commanding slide guitar that bears some similarity to the late great Duane Allman, plus much more, as Trucks and his cohorts cover a wide range of styles from...

If you know Marcy Levy's name, you read liner notes. In a 35-year-career that has been both frustrating and rewarding, Levy has been at both the front and the back of the stage. As Marcella Detroit with the duo Shakespear's Sister, she wrote and sang "Stay," a song that spent...

Quick, what songs from the seventies do you think of first when I say Eric Clapton? I'd lay odds that at least one, if not two of them, would be either "After Midnight" or "Cocaine." Back in the early 1970's, there was a great trivia question you could ask, and...