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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.

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 ...

Allman Brothers Band: Trouble No More: 50th Anniversary Collection

By DOUG COLLETTE

The gold-embossed lettering on the front and back cover of the roughly 5" by 7" slipcase enclosing the Allman Brothers Band's box set Trouble No More belies its otherwise generic art work. Yet the graphic design isn't all that gives the lie to an otherwise positive first impression gleaned from 50th Anniversary Collection. A glance at ...

Cream: Goodbye Tour Live 1968

By DOUG COLLETTE

Goodbye Tour Live 1968 is a snapshot of Cream's adieu to the world, but a panoramic one nonetheless. Housed in a glossy nine and a half-inch by ten slipcase boasting a group photo identical to its namesake title, the inlay with four CD's accompanies a sixty-six page book wherein factual and passionate prose from David Fricke, ...

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Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues

By DOUG COLLETTE

Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues David Dann 776 Pages ISBN: #978-1477318775 University of Texas Press 2019 Through a combination of journalistic objectivity, scholarly attention to detail and the passion of a fan, author David Dann accomplishes exactly what he professes to achieve in his 'Prologue' to ...