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“I let it go to voicemail. It said, ‘Hello, this is Eric Clapton. This may sound like a hoax, but it’s not’”: Slowhand tried to invite Derek Trucks onto his album with JJ Cale – but he thought it was a prank call

Trucks was in the middle of a game of poker when Clapton came calling – but he didn't answer the phone

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Eric Clapton slams the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a "frat boys club"

Guitar God Eric Clapton says he was suckered into getting involved with the "establishment" Rock Hall

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“I have to thank Eric Clapton for boosting my bank balance by recording After Midnight then cutting Cocaine”: the life and times of JJ Cale, American music’s best kept secret

Eric Clapton loved him and Mark Knopfler borrowed his style, but singer and guitarist JJ Cale never had the success to match his massive influence

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“What came off his guitar, you still don’t even know to this day what the hell he was doing”: these are the 10 greatest guitarists ever, according to The Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson

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“Duane Allman played a great solo, came back, and Eric says, ‘Well, I want to do mine again!’ This went on for at least an hour or two”: How Eric Clapton went from God to all-'round guitar genius in the ‘70s

After the writing on the wall proclaimed him a deity in the '60s, where else was there to go for Eric Clapton but on a search of self-discovery, musical improvement, and new artistic frontiers

Guitar World

Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival: 11 of our favourite performances from past years

The 2023 line-up is phenomenal and features past artists that helped set the standard including John Mayer, Sheryl Crow, Gary Clark Jr and Vince Gill

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Jack Johnson on music, longevity and channeling Led Zeppelin by blowing in beer bottles

SAN DIEGO — Many of Jack Johnson's songs are soft and lilting, but he credits being periodically fatalistic as a key to his now 21-year-long music career.

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