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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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?
The most tangible outgrowth of that practice was last year’s “Me and Mr. Johnson” album. But Clapton’s reconnection with those deep blues roots shows up here too, not so much in the songs ...
Eric Clapton's recorded progress through the ... There are another eight to go, but Me and Mr Johnson collects 14 Johnson songs which, with one exception, Clapton has not attempted on previous ...