Musician Eric Clapton performs at the Spring Of Culture concert of Manama March 8, 2014. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed By Jeremy Gaunt LONDON (Reuters) - A year after the death of American cult ...
Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this interview with Eric Clapton contained an inaccurate quote about meeting the late JJ Cale. Clapton's correct quote: "He showed me a guitar he ...
On the swinging “Don’t Wait,” Clapton trades solos with John Mayer and the two double up on vocal duties as well, creating some dry, near-harmonies that manage to both belie and behoove the track’s ...
Back in the early ’70s, Eric Clapton — struggling out of drug addiction and pursuing a solo career — turned “Cocaine” and “After Midnight,” both JJ Cale songs, into radio staples that saved his ...
Despite having written two of Clapton's biggest hits, 'Cocaine' and 'After Midnight,' and having influenced countless others over his four-decade long career, Cale never achieved the widespread ...
If musicians were measured not by the number of records they sold but by the number of peers they influenced, JJ Cale would have been a towering figure in 1970s rock ‘n’ roll. His best songs like ...