Everyone has his or her favorite guitar hero, but when it comes to blues-rock, you have to give it up for Eric Clapton. Starting with his groundbreaking work in the mid-60’s with The Yardbirds, and ...

The blues always begins at a crossroads. Picture Robert Johnson, the guitar slinging antihero, standing at the intersection of two dust-blown lanes in the Mississippi Delta, selling his soul to the ...

Eric Clapton's Crossroads festival has become the mecca for riff worshippers, so it was appropriate that guitar deity Keith Richards made a surprise appearance to perform with Clapton. The Rolling ...

BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. — Close-ups of strings, fretboards and guitarists’ callused fingers filled the video screens on Saturday at Toyota Park here, a stadium just outside Chicago, where Eric Clapton’s ...

Eric Clapton's planned Crossroads Guitar Festival will feature plenty of blues licks, quick-picking, soaring leads, distorted six-string, and heavy, tasty riffs. Here's what it won't feature: Any ...

Eric Clapton’s 2023 Crossroads Guitar Festival lives on. Well, in digital form. The landmark performances that occurred during the aforementioned event on September 23 and 24, 2023, at the Crypto.com ...

Eric Clapton (center) and friends acknowledge the crowd's applause after a finale, during the Crossroads Guitar Festival on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2019 at the American Airlines Center in downtown Dallas.