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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton was born on 30 March 1945 in his grandparents’ home at 1 The Green, Ripley, Surrey, England. He was the son of 16-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton (b. 7 January 1929, d. March 1999) and Edward Walter Fryer (b. 21 March 1920, d. 1985), a 24-year-old Canadian soldier stationed in England during World War II. Before Eric was born, Fryer returned to his wife in Canada. It was extraordinarily difficult for an unmarried 16-year-old to raise a child on her own in the mid-1940s. Pat’s parents, Rose and Jack Clapp, stepped in as surrogate parents and raised Eric as their own

Goodbye Tour Live 1968

By CREAM

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2020
Track listing: CD 1: White Room; Politician; Crossroads; Sunshine Of Your Love; Spoonful; Deserted Cities Of The Hear; Passing The Time; I’m So Glad. CD 2: Introduction by Buddy Miles; White Room; Politician; I’m So Glad; Sitting On Top Of The World; Crossroads; Sunshine Of Your Love; Traintime; Toad; Spoonful. CD 3: White Room; Politician; I’m So Glad; Sitting On Top Of The World; Sunshine of Your Love; Crossroads; Traintime; Toad; Spoonful. CD 4: White Room; Politician; I’m So Glad; Sitting On Top Of The World; Crossroads; Toad; Spoonful; Sunshine Of Your Love; Steppin’ Out.

Tony Taravella: Dedicated To Les Paul

By DAN MCCLENAGHAN

Les Paul (1915 to 2009) was one of the innovators in the creation of the solid body electric guitar. Paul enjoyed a long and successful career—performing and recording from 1945, backing Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, offering up a bunch of singles (this was pre-33rpm album days) with his wife Mary Ford, playing with Chet ...

Dave Mason: Alone Together Again

By DOUG COLLETTE

At the time of its release in July of 1970, Dave Mason's debut solo album, Alone Together (Blue Thumb Records, 1970), was the proverbial perfect storm, a flash-point of both creative art and commerce that remains a singular object of fascination in the annals of contemporary rock. Produced by label co-founder Tommy LiPuma, in conjunction with ...

Derek Trucks: Chops, Romance & Dance

By ALAN BRYSON

It's a good bet that most of us have heard people say they don't like jazz, or even worse, drop the H-bomb, “I hate jazz." If you choose to engage, the key is to tread lightly and tailor an approach that considers the tastes and sensibilities of the other person. The “So You Don't Like Jazz" ...

Rolling Stones: Steel Wheels Live

By DOUG COLLETTE

The Rolling Stones Steel Wheels Live Eagle Rock Entertainment 2020 The Rolling Stones have previously covered their Steel Wheels (Rolling Stones, 1989) tour on Live At The Tokyo Dome 1990 (Eagle, 2012), but given its significance in their career timeline, it's no surprise that the band has decided to revisit ...

The Led Zeppelin Papers - Physical Graffiti, Deluxe Edition

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

It may just be coincidence, but there seems to have existed a phenomenon in classic rock recording where prominent artists begin a creative evolution on a single LP release, chronologically following it up with a definitive artistic statement as a double album set, creating a sort of lopsided diptych of certain brilliance. Notable examples include:

Brandon “Taz” Niederauer: A Minor with a Major Future

By ALAN BRYSON

Though only seventeen, guitarist/singer/songwriter Brandon Niederauer has amassed a staggering list of accomplishments. At age ten he was a guest and performer on The Ellen DeGeneres Show--the YouTube clip of which has over 3,200,000 views. Two years later he landed a role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway Musical, School of Rock. He has performed a Hendrixesque version ...

Blues From Laurel Canyon: My Life As A Bluesman

By DOUG COLLETTE

Blues From Laurel Canyon: My Life As A Bluesman John Mayall with Joel McIver 336 Pages ISBN: #978-1785581786 Omnibus Press 2019 Blues From Laurel Canyon seems an odd assignation of a name for John Mayall's memoir, if only because that main title doesn't quite correspond to its subtitle My ...

B.B. King: Through the Years

By ALAN BRYSON

Sixty-six years passed from the time in 1948 when Riley King auditioned for a spot on Sonny Boy Williamson's radio program, until his final performance at the House of Blues on October 3, 2014 in Chicago. His life was a remarkable odyssey from a sharecropper's cabin to the pinnacle of success. We'll never know how many ...