Clapton, Eric

The Breeze - An Appreciation of J.J. Cale started out as a standalone project, but it quickly grew into a broader musical adventure that points to Cale's legacy with fairly faithful takes on his songs.

An old master with a holiday songbook.

Venue: Beograjska Arena / Belgrade / SerbiaConcert date: June 8, 2010Attendance: 25,000Ticket price: €46 Not so long ago, catching Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood live seemed like pure wishful thinking to the average European. So it's not…

Author: Jernej Vene Location: Vienna, StadthalleConcert date: 06.06.2010Attendance: 12,000Ticket price: €75 to €85 The Austrian capital played host to a musical duo that I can say with a clear conscience belong among the legends. After…

From The Cradle is a masterfully balanced collage of 16 blues-standard covers, showing off the many faces and guises of the die-hard blues interpreter.

Money and Cigarettes is an album of middling artistic merit, and measured against the high standards of Clapton's past achievements, it actually lands well below par.

The legendary guitarist's solo debut, predictably titled simply Eric Clapton, sprouted during two short breaks in the Delaney & Bonnie and Friends tour.

Live From The Madison Square Garden symbolically closes the final chapter in the story of one of the first supergroups in the history of rock music.

With Behind The Sun, Eric Clapton completed his personal transformation from a lonely blues-rock rider into a more conciliatory helmsman of assembly-line, pop-bleached hits.

Eric Clapton's career, after the breakup of Cream and later Blind Faith, swung steadily between triumph and shipwreck all through the seventies, starting with the baptism by fire of the guitarist's self-titled debut. In 1977, with the…

Eric Clapton's career was a popular target for all sorts of misfortune at the turn of the 1980s. After his trip to the Far East, so brilliantly documented on the superb Just One Night, Eric was once again wr

Some might find it odd, but the fact is that Eric Clapton, after practically three decades of making music, countless commercial hits, and playing in numerous supergroups and other similar "silliness", probably never felt so at home and…

Eric Clapton was very active musically in the seventies, maybe even too active for someone so weighed down by an identity crisis. Despite a constant, self-destructive pile-up of problems and other related tangled situations,

There's One In Evey Crowd probably marks the point where the curve of Clapton's cosmic journey grinds to a halt dangerously close to total creative "black out" territory, where it finally goes dark for good. Which, of course, seems hard to…

After a decade of nonstop touring and a handful of albums marked by commercially minded, more or less unsuccessful attempts to chase the trendy shifts of the eighties, guitar legend Eric Clapton finally learns, at the turn of the decade,…

Just One Night brings fourteen Eric Clapton "toe-tappers" recorded way back in December 1979 at Japan's Budokan theater. While the album itself doesn't mark any particularly noteworthy creative peak in Eric's career (which is hardly…

461 Ocean Boulevard marks Clapton's first serious maturity test, catching the legendary guitarist at a crucial crossroads on his turbulent, unpredictable musical path. After a long stretch of drug abuse,

Clapton's music from the late seventies and on through the eighties stays fresh and interesting. An enviable achievement, especially considering the kinds of trouble the guitarist was wrestling with at the time. To an already long list

E. C. Was Here is yet another in a line of phenomenal live recordings from the legendary guitarist. The tours that followed the big success of 461 Ocean Boulevard are a unique challenge for Eric, since this is the first time he steps out as…

After a long battle with heroin addiction that forced him into complete seclusion in 1971, Eric Clapton rises from the dead like a phoenix two years later. His long-awaited return to form comes with Townshend's Rainbow Concert, organized…