Guitar Magic – Carlos Santana with Derek Trucks

I  spoke with Derek Trucks about Carlos Santana  just before the Allman Brothers’ big 40th anniversary and concert run at the Beacon Theater in NYC.  Of course there was no sense in asking him if Eric Clapton or Santana would be showing up at the Beacon, all of the band was sworn to secrecy.  [...]

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Johnny Cash & the Living Room PC

Mini PC, not much bigger than your hand

We just bought a living room mini-PC.  Up until now we had occasionally connected our laptop to our LCD TV, but the multimedia use caused the laptop fans to run at full capacity.  It was loud and a bit of a chore hooking it up.  This week a [...]

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Allman Brothers Band – What Now?

So what do Randy Brecker, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White have in common with Kid Rock, Eric Clapton and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top?
All were part of the Allman Brothers Band’s three-week musical extravaganza at New York City’s Beacon Theater celebrating the band’s 40th anniversary. This year’s list of surprise guests also included Johnny Winter, [...]

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Allman Brothers 40th – Ongoing Beacon Updates

Allman Brothers at the Beacon with special guests, photos & setlists

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My Interview with Derek Trucks

Check out my interview with Derek Trucks, we talk about Clapton, Santana, Duane Allman, Tal Wilkenfeld, Johnny Winter and much more…

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My Interview with the Legendary Chuck Leavell

Chuck Leavell is one of the world’s premier blues rock pianists–a veteran musician who has recorded and toured with many of the best-known names in the business. He is perhaps best known for his work with the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Black Crowes, and most of all, his legendary [...]

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Remembering the Music of 1968 with Video & Background

One of the best LP covers of 1968

Jimi Hendrix – All along the watchtower
The Jimi Hendrix Experience began to record their cover version of Dylan’s “All Along The Watchtower” on January 21, 1968, at Olympic Studios in London. [7] According to engineer Andy Johns, Jimi Hendrix had been given a tape [...]

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Remembering 1967 – Video & Background of the Summer of Love

The Beatles on making Sgt Pepper
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the British rock band The Beatles. Recorded over a 129-day period beginning on 6 December 1966, the album was released on 1 June 1967 in the United Kingdom and the following day in the [...]

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Derek Trucks guests on a couple of upcoming CD’s

Tracks:
“Best Damn Fool”
“Too Many Tears” featuring Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi
“Lyin’ Like a Dog”
“Show Me The Money”
“Every Time I Sing The Blues” featuring Eric Clapton
“Out In The Woods” featuring Robert Randolph
“Hammer and a Nail”
“That’s My Home” featuring Robert Randolph
“Skin Deep” featuring Derek Trucks
“Who’s Gonna Fill Those Shoes”
“Smell The Funk”
“I Found Happiness”
Tracks
01. St. Louis Blues
02. Brother [...]

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A Duane Allman Experience

Seeing Duane Allman play live was a life altering event for me. Just as we’ve come to accept the notion of a soulmate, I personally believe there is a musical equivalent. Locked in our core, each of us has musical soul waiting to be set free, and if we’re fortunate we’ll encounter the [...]

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Barack Obama digs Howlin’ Wolf and Eric Clapton

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Nice Video Interview of Derek Trucks in France

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CLAPTON’S INCREDIBLE CAREER

Sheryl Crow & Eric Clapton – Merry Christmas Baby (1999)
In my mind, Ray Charles and Eric Clapton have much in common. Two absolute music legends who transcend labels. They both shared the stage with an extraordinary array of performers, often adding an unforgettable quality to [...]

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Eric Clapton’s 2007 Crossroads Festival

 
 
 
 

In case you missed it, PBS has a few clips online here. And here is the set list of the PBS broadcast of Eric Clapton’s CROSSROADS GUITAR FESTIVAL CHICAGO
Premiered on November 28, 2007 on PBS
MUSICAL SELECTIONS
The evening’s program was recorded live at Toyota Park in Chicago, Illinois in July 2007.
“Uberesso”
Sonny Landreth
“Poor Johnny”
Music and lyrics [...]

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Read an excerpt from Eric Clapton’s Autobiography

“The electric guitar I chose was one I had had my eye on in the window of Bell’s, where we had got the Hoyer. It was the same guitar I had seen Alexis Korner playing, a double-cutaway semi-acoustic Kay, which at the time was a quite advanced instrument, although essentially, as I later learned, it [...]

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Larry King Interview with Eric Clapton – Podcast

Larry King did a surprisingly good interview with Eric Clapton, but unfortunately the podcast is no longer available
Read it here
Finally, try saving this link and watching it later – caution, it’s 175 mb.
And here’s a little taste

 

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Nice Article about Derek Trucks

Speaking of the Clapton Tour:
“By the end of that tour he had given me so much solo space that it’s almost uncomfortable,” he laughs. “I would actually go to him and say, ‘Look man, people are going to start getting (ticked) off. They’re not paying to see me.’ The first song of the [...]

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More on George, Eric and Patti

Well if you can’t get enough of this saga, read this and watch the video

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Derek Trucks at the Crossroads

Clapton remain da man, he makes spectacular events possible – and what a player!
Billboard reported:
For guitar fans, Toyota Park was a fine place too — especially during Clapton’s 95-minute set. Starting off with a blast of Derek & the Dominos material — including “Tell the Truth,” a joyous rendition [...]

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Patti Boyd on the record

She looked wonderful tonight, and there was something in the way she moved – right – that Patti Boyd.

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