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Me & Mr. Johnson recalls Eric Clapton’s comeback album 461 Ocean Blvd in that he seems determined to keep the spotlight off himself and focused instead on the subject of the album and the object of ...
1.When You Got a Good Friend (Johnson) - 3:20 2.Little Queen of Spades (Johnson) - 4:57 3.They're Red Hot (Johnson) - 3:25 4.Me and the Devil Blues (Johnson) - 2:56 5.Traveling Riverside Blues ...
Eric Clapton once wrote that Robert Johnson's ... Now the rock guitarist has recorded Me and Mr. Johnson, a CD of the legendary bluesman's works that Clapton calls a labor of love.
Bill Kelly Last night, June 2, Eric Clapton rolled into Nice, France’s Palais Nikaïa to deliver the final performance of his ...
The blues have again reinvigorated Eric Clapton. In a two-hour tour-ending set in support of his current release, Robert Johnson covers collection "Me and Mr. Johnson," Clapton shined on the blues ...
“I should have done it a long time ago,” says Eric Clapton about his tribute to the man who first inspired him to pick up a guitar, Robert Johnson. The album, titled Me and Mr ...
"In a way, I see Me and Mr Johnson as more of a tribute to my love of Robert Johnson ... but Doyle was taken with him and I always try to get him to do his Hop thing somewhere on my albums. Eric ...
One of them is Eric Clapton. “Today” host Matt Lauer talked to Clapton about his new CD, "Me and Mr. Johnson," a tribute to one of his icons, blues guitarist Robert Johnson. Robert who?
Clapton’s longtime muse has been the mysterious, short-lived Mississippi blues genius, Robert Johnson, and “Me and Mr. Johnson” is an album-length tribute in which the British guitarist cove ...
Of the many reasons why middle-class white boys such as Eric Clapton and Aerosmith ... so with mutual fealty and honest delight. Johnson has been Clapton’s steady rollin’ muse since 1966 ...
It's surprising that this collection of Robert Johnson covers is only Clapton's second all-blues ... Blues" and "When You Got A Good Friend". "Me And The Devil Blues" and "Come On In My Kitchen ...
BLUES If, before recording this disc, which is due in stores Tuesday, Eric Clapton entered into ... Just two of the 14 Johnson-penned tracks on “Me and Mr. Johnson” are noteworthy — the ...