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Ever since George Harrison gathered with Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and Ravi Shankar at Madison Square Garden for the 1971 benefit concert for Bangladesh, philanthropic pop has been a booming business. And in the caring, sharing '90s, a new formula has emerged: the compilation album. Among the best...
Veteran rockers Eric Clapton, Neil Young and Joe Cocker joined chart-toppers Jon Bon Jovi and Billy Idol as nominees in the best male rock vocalist category...
...Willie Dixon. But the most eagerly awaited offering is the boxed, two-volume (CD or cassette) set containing all 41 known takes by the legendary Robert Johnson, whose brooding, anguished voice and ringing guitar made him a cult figure for a generation of young rockers. As guitarist Eric Clapton puts it in a copiously annotated accompanying booklet: "I have never found anything more deeply soulful than Robert Johnson. His music remains the most powerful cry that I think you can find in the human voice." Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones is more succinct: "You want to know how good...
KLZX AM & FM in Salt Lake City serenaded its listeners with "Iraq, Iraq," based on "New York, New York," and "Hussein," sung to Eric Clapton's "Cocaine...
...close your eyes during the final guitar solo at the end of "Before You Accuse Me," you just might think you're listening to an old Bluesbreakers tune. But you're not. Eric Clapton's Journeyman has planted him firmly in the 1980s world of synthesizers and drum kits. The few blues songs that prop up this album seem sadly anachronistic in an arena of bubble...