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 ...

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 ...

In June 2010, Eric Clapton gathered the world's most talented guitar players at the third Crossroads Guitar Festival. All profits benefited The Crossroads Centre in Antigua, a treatment and education ...

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 ...

1. Ask the students to define the term “the blues” by brainstorming ideas as a group and recording them on the board/overhead. 2. After all ideas have been listed, share some specific information ...