eric clapton
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Susan Tedeschi on honouring Jeff Beck and why the Telecaster chose her
By Amit Sharma published
Susan's signature Fender takes Telecaster versatility to a new level – and it mirrors her incredible career so far
Eric Clapton’s ‘Wonderful Tonight’ 1974 000-28 Martin acoustic is heading to auction (again)
By Jonathan Horsley published
Clapton shed tears when the stalwart acoustic left his collection in 1999, and now it is up for sale once more, complete with Don Williams tribute sticker and cigarette burns
Eric Clapton and the song he said he'd never play live again
By Michael Leonard published
"I was suddenly aware of the fact that there was a way to turn this dreadful tragedy into something positive"
Eric Clapton’s Marshall JCM800 that rocked 1.5 billion people at Live Aid is up for sale
By Jonathan Horsley published
So you need an amp to play guitar in a stadium for a watching TV audience of over a billion people? Well, something has just come in... All you need is a cobbled together Strat
'The first thing you often hear on any blues record is a taster of what's to come': Here are 40 turnarounds to fire up your blues guitar playing
By Richard Barrett published
Never be short of ideas again with this guide
"He showed me some things that Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson had taught him – he knew those people": Hubert Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf and their legendary blues legacy
By Julian Piper published
Legendary Howlin' Wolf guitar sideman on his hard blues road
“That was just the way it was at that point because Ahmet Ertegun was more or less in love with Eric. He thought Eric should be the frontman”: Cream and the trouble with Strange Brew
By Matt Frost published
The classic opener to Disraeli Gears was never a favourite of Cream's members, and this is why
John Lee Hooker: "Eric Clapton, John Mayall and all those other people over in England made the blues a big thing. In the States, people didn't want to know"
By Guitarist magazine published
Legendary bluesman on his latter-day fame
“Brian May did an entire section, about a dozen guitar harmonies:” Mark Knopfler’s all-star Guitar Heroes charity single, Going Home, is released – but who played what?
By Jonathan Horsley published
Featuring over 50 A-list guitarists, the expanded Local Hero theme opens with Jeff Beck's final solo, has Joan Armatrading rocking on electric and May going harmony mad to raise money for teen cancer charities
"For me it was either the beginning of the beginning or the beginning of the end": the night Eric Clapton guested with Joe Bonamassa at the Royal Albert Hall and changed his career
By Rob Laing published
"I can never repay him for what he did because he came out and did something that turned my career around"
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