Eric Clapton has spent much of his career retreating from his own success — into drugs, reclusiveness or retirement. “The bit onstage, that’s easy,” he said in 2014. “For me, the struggle is the ...

Eric Clapton has been reinventing himself musically for more than 40 years. But the strong pulse of the blues has powered his guitar playing since the beginning: from the Yardbirds when he was 18, ...

More than 25 years after its recording, Eric Clapton’s Nothing but the Blues has finally been released, and one lucky UCR reader will win a Super Deluxe Box Set, valued at over $200! Recorded in 1994 ...

British-born guitarist Eric Clapton is known for his rampaging rock songs and love of the blues. But not everything the all-timer has put to record is cut from the cloth of songs like “Cocaine” or ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Eric Clapton may not be God, but Thursday night he put to rest any debate about his place in the rock ’n’ roll pantheon with a blues-heavy show for a packed Rocket Arena crowd. The ...

Cream was one of the most iconic rock supergroups of the 1960s, and it’s wild to think that they were only together for a handful of years. During those years, though, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and ...

Maybe it's best that Eric Clapton has gone back to the blues on the sexy and satisfying history lesson "Me and Mr. Johnson," a 14-track tribute to the brief but bountiful 1930s career of Mississippi ...