“Clapton is God” graffiti
started popping up in cities from London
to New York to St. Louis, sometime around
the summer of 1972 or 1973. Eric
Clapton’s prowess on guitar
has been unquestioned since. Bridging
color and cultural valleys, Eric Clapton
brought Black blues, African-American
music, to white people, at first in London,
then in New York, California, Florida,
and then the rest of the world.
With his old pal, Oklahoman J.J. Cale
(After Midnight and Cocaine), whose tunes
he covered and made so famous so long
ago, Eric Clapton teams
for a newly released disc. “The
Road to Escondido,” is named for
the route to the California town where
the reclusive Cale has been enjoying his
privacy for years, until now.
In his youth, Eric Clapton
served a stint in The Yardbirds, formed
Cream, Blind Faith with Steve Winwood,
Rick Grech and Ginger Baker, and partnered
in Derek and the Dominoes with Duane Allman
and among others, Bobby Whitlock. That
was all before 1974.
Eric Clapton has been
there and done that, if it has to do with
playing the guitar and singing the blues.
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Eric Clapton was on
tour with Stevie Ray Vaughn in 1991, when
the Texan was killed in a helicopter crash.
When he’s not on tour, and since
licking his own drug and alcohol problems,
Eric Clapton spends time
funding and running his own rehabilitation
center in the Caribbean.
Eric Clapton is surely
the most important proponent of the blues,
who wasn’t born on a plantation.
Eric Clapton tours the
world extensively, but he’s probably
only in your town once every year or two;
he threatens to retire all the time, so
don’t miss this unique opportunity
to see one of the greatest guitarists
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