Eric Clapton and his music

When the Crossroads Guitar Festival came to Chicago at the end of July, Rolling Stone Senior Editor David Fricke sat down for a candid one-on-one chat with the event’s founder, Eric Clapton. Over the course of their conversation, the two discussed everything from the guitar as a living instrument to Jack White’s impressive knowledge of blues to the future of the record industry. Listen to a bit of the interview here:
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Film footage of Derek & The Dominos (Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock, Jim Gordon, Carl Radle) is to be included in two new Johnny Cash projects. On 5 November 1970, the Dominos appeared on Johnny Cash's variety show which aired on U.S. Television between 1969 and 1971. Their appearance was filmed at the Ryman Auditorium, in Nashville, Tennesee. It was with this band that Eric Clapton recorded the the landmark album, "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs."

"Johnny Cash: A Man and His Vision" will premiere on PBS affiliate WLIW-TV (Channel 21) in New York on 11 August at 7PM. Additional broadcasts will follow by other affiliates around the country. According to PBS, "Johnny Cash: A Man and His Vision" is a musical and narrative overview of one of the most innovative variety shows in television history. Cash exposed America to an eclectic array of talent by inviting viewers to "ride that train" with him across state lines, color lines, party lines and the Mason-Dixon line. Although in production for only 15 months, an astounding 58 episodes were produced. Guests were not only established artists like Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and Ray Charles, but up-and-comers. In the PBS special, Derek & The Dominos will be seen performing the two songs that aired back in 1970, "Its Too Late" and "Matchbox" with Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash.

CMV / Columbia / Sony Legacy will release "The Best of the Johnny Cash TV Show" on 18 September in the US. Hosted by Kris Kristofferson, it will include 64 performances compiled from all 58 episodes. Included in the DVD are both songs from Derek & The Dominos appearance. The also set features new interviews with John Carter Cash, Tennessee Three bassist Marshall Grant, Hank Williams, Jr., musical arranger Bill Walker, and hairstylist Penny Lane. A single disc companion CD will also be released on that date. A track list for the CD has not yet known.

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34 Derek and the Dominoes / It's Too Late
35 Derek and the Dominoes With Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins / Matchbox
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Eric Clapton & Sheryl Crow - The Armani Party
Submitted by ChinaTown on Tue, 2007-08-14 02:01.

Eric Clapton & Sheryl Crow - The Armani Party
Blues | MP3 | 192 kbps | 101.02 MB

Track List

1. Instrumental Jam
2. Pretending
3. Run Baby Run
4. Pretending
5. Going Down Slow
6. Tearing Us Apart
7. Crossroads
8. Instrumental Jam
9. Tearing Us Apart
10. Mc Rehearsal
11. Crossroads
12. Pretending
13. Going Down Slow
14. Tearing Us Apart

Playing Time: 01:13:32
Total Size..: 101.02 MB

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8/16/07
Eric Clapton’s $120,000 Graffiti Art Purchase: What Exactly Did He Buy? The Artist Speaks Out

This week news broke that Eric Clapton shelled out $120,000 to buy twelve paintings by legendary graffiti artist Lee Quinones; each work depicts a shoplifter grabbing an album from the Seventies, including James Brown’s Sex Machine and the Isley Brothers’ Get Into Something. The guitarist’s apparent love of graffiti art dates back at least a decade, when he attended a London show that featured Quinones and fellow train-to-canvas artists Stash and Futura. Clapton bought a few pieces and commissioned the artists to paint guitars for his concerts. So when Quinones was looking to sell his collection, he sent e-mails to Clapton and other famous fans of his work, like Debbie Harry, the Beastie Boys and ?uestlove. But before he could fire off the next round to Jay-Z and Russell Simmons, Clapton responded. “He was the first. Like within ten minutes. He must have been online,” Quinones laughs. “He never even saw them in person and was like, ‘Lee, they’re mine.’”

This dirty dozen of paintings, as Quinones likes to call them, was inspired by his life in New York City in the Seventies. “I was painting all the time and to make money on the side, I was lifting records,” he says. “It fit into my agenda of lifting everything from coffee to paint. All I needed was paint and music to survive. I could live on water after that.”

Each painting depicts Quinones’ hands slipping one album into his jacket. “The paintings are a celebration of the times, musicians and those songs,” he said. “The album covers are meticulously reproduced because they were also beautiful pieces of art. These paintings are exploding with color and then have a ghostly image of my hand — a kind of skimpy drawing of my hand to symbolize that I had to be invisible in that store ’cause you knew you had to go back in and do it again.”

The series is currently on exhibit at New York’s PS1 until September 7th, when one of the cover subjects — Quinones won’t say who — will perform at the closing. After that, the paintings will do a tour of London, Paris and Japan before making their way to Clapton’s home.

“A short tour,” Quinones says. “I know he’s wanting for them. And I want him to have them. There’s only one or two paintings that I’ve created over the years that I knew would go to their rightful owners, people who will love them from the heart and soul like I did. I go to sleep at night thinking this series is in its rightful place with Eric.”

Here’s a list of the twelve albums in the collection:

Herman Kelly, Dance to the Drummer’s Beat
James Brown, Sex Machine
The Jimmy Castor Bunch, It’s Just Begun
Isley Brothers, Get Into Something
Baby Huey, Listen to Me
Yellow Sunshine, Yellow Sunshine
Babe Ruth, The Mexican
Lonnie Liston Smith, Expansions
The Futures, Castles in the Sky
Johnny Pate, Shaft in Africa
Dennis Coffey, Scorpio
The Incredible Bongo Band, Apache

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Eric Clapton poses with his daughter Ruth before a performance in Birkdale school sports hall, Sheffield, England on March 18, 2003. Clapton performed at his daughter's school to raise money for music and computer equipment. Some of the proceeds were donated to a drug rehabilitation center in Antigua that Clapton, a former addict, has supported for several years.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Eric Clapton, right, sings with guitarist Robbie Robertson, left, during induction ceremonies at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York on March 6, 2000. Robertson introduced Clapton.

Eric Clapton poses with the six Grammys he won at the 35th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 24, 1993. His song "Tears in Heaven" won both as record and song of the year, and his album "Unplugged" won as album of the year.

Eric Clapton holds a bouquet of flowers as he appears on stage along with Olivia Harrison, wife of former Beatle George Harrison, and movie director Jon Kamen before the start of the premiere showing of the movie "Concert for George" in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2003.