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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
Thirty Essential Transformative Guitarists
by Alan Bryson
"Best guitarist" lists are inherently subjective--often nonsensical. They rank the unrankable, folding popularity, technique, cultural impact, sales, and personal taste into a single hierarchy. This list takes a different approach, acknowledging thirty guitarists who transformed the instrument itself: they created new techniques, pioneered fresh concepts, expanded its sonic vocabulary, and changed how those who followed them played. ...
Peter Parcek: Most Of The Time
by Doug Collette
The contemporary blues community is densely populated with posers long on affectation and short on authenticity. Not so Peter Parcek for whom the blues carries truths that resonate in such a deep and abiding way that his own musical articulations, plus those of kindred spirits within and without the genre, become expressions straight from the heart ...
Blow By Blow: The Jeff Beck Story by Brad Tolinski And Chris Gill
by Doug Collette
Blow By Blow: The Jeff Beck Story Brad Tolinski And Chris Gill 400 pages ISBN: #978-0306836589 Da Capo 2026 Brad Tolinski & Chris Gill do not just tell The Jeff Beck Story in their biography of the maverick guitar genius. Very early in its four-hundred pages, Blow By Blow ...
Sonic Loops: Eight Miles High on the Psychedelic Trane
by Alan Bryson
In the popular music of the '50s, the landscape revolved around individual vocalists, vocal harmony groups, and instrumental ensembles. In the early '60s, something radical emerged: self-contained groups--a collective of individuals with a group dynamic and identity. They wrote, sang, played instruments, and performed as a unified artistic whole. This represented a structural revolution in how ...
Crossroads of Idol Dreams
by Blue Note Portal
London, late November 1968. Hurtwood Edge, Surrey. The house is wrapped in the kind of English rain that never quite commits to falling; it merely hangs in the air like a bad memory. Inside the kitchen the Aga ticks like an old heart that has forgotten the rhythm of joy. The air carries yesterday's curry, cold ...
Tomorrow May Not Be Your Day: The Unissued Atco Recordings 1970-1971
Label: Real Gone Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Tomorrow May Not Be Your Day; Crazy Love; Kansas City; Rock and Roll Gypsies;
Tracks Of My Tears; Every Night Is Saturday Night; Love Minus Zero/No Limit; Slinky
Jam; Qualified; Washita Love Child ( jam 1); Washita Love Child (jam 2); kiowa
teepee (Washita Love Child); Washita Love Child; Ain’t No Beatle; Caravan; Pat's
Song (Golden Sun Goddess); Ululu.
Tommy Talton: Seven Levels
by Doug Collette
Tommy Talton has the distinction of co-leading the band Cowboy, one of the select few acts on the Capricorn Records roster during the heyday of Southern rock that did not sound like the Allman Brothers Band. Emphasizing vocal harmonies and concise song structure with a decidedly folky feel, Talton, along with Scott Boyer, co-fronted an ensemble ...
Ronnie Wood: Fearless: The Anthology 1965-2025
by Doug Collette
If the Ronnie Wood anthology Fearless proves anything, it is that the predominant virtues of the peripatetic British musician are largely intangible. Not that the guitarist, songwriter and singer is not talented in those various roles, but that his most salient attributes, at least as depicted here, as those of a convivial individual who invariably contributes ...
Matt Schofield: Many Moons Vol. 1
by Doug Collette
The blues boom that exploded in England during the mid-to-late 1960s bequeathed more than a few guitar heroes to the world, including, but not limited to, Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor. But none of those fretboarders or their contemporaries and descendants has been any more loyal to the genre than Matt Schofield.
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