The lineup will include Clapton, the Allman Brothers Band, ZZ Top, Steve Winwood, BB King, Jeff Beck, Vince Gill, Sheryl Crow, Buddy Guy and John Mayer.
Besides the usual classic-rock and blues suspects, the lineup is notable this year for including British folk veterans Bert Jansch and John Renbourn and Brazilian legend Joao Gilberto.
The first Crossroads Guitar Festival was staged in Dallas in 2004, and then played Toyota Park, at 71st and Harlem in Bridgeview, in 2007.
Here's the confirmed lineup so far for this years festival:
Clapton, Winwood. Allman Brothers Band, ZZ Top, Mayer, Crow, King, Beck. Guy, Jansch, Renbourn, Gilberto, Jimmie Vaughan, Robert Cray, Robert Randolph, Sonny Landreth, Vince Gill, Joe Bonamassa, Albert Lee, Doyle Bramhall II, Gary Clark Jr., Keb Mo, James Burton, Hubert Sumlin, Earl Klugh, Pino Daniele, David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos.
Profits will benefit the Crossroads Centre in Antigua, a treatment and education facility founded by Clapton for chemically dependent persons.
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