When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Sheri Lynn Behr/Alamy Eric Clapton’s guitar solo on the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently ...

The Beatle and Clapton briefly crossed paths several times throughout the first half of the 1960s. However, they didn’t become friends until the latter part of the decade. In Martin Scorsese’s ...

In my last column, we discussed 1960s-era Eric Clapton, focusing on his work with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers and Cream, and his predilection for relying on Gibson guitars during that time. As ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- "You know it's his playing right when you hear it," Huntsville acoustic blues artist Jimmy Henderson says of Eric Clapton. "And to me that's what makes a great guitar player." ...

Eric Clapton’s guitar skills have been so revered that “Clapton is God” was once spray-painted on a wall in London. In tribute to his holiness – the lord of the Les Paul, the sultan of the SG, the ...

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George Harrison started playing slide guitar after seeing what Eric Clapton and other great guitarists were doing on the instrument in the mid-1960s. His interest in the sitar had taken over for a bit ...

We often hyperbolize great artists as masters of evolving their genre, but few can truly stake that claim like Eric Clapton. This weekend, Eric Clapton celebrates just how far he’s evolved the role of ...

Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Allman Brothers Band, John Mayer, Keith Urban, Vince Gill and more swap guitar licks for a good cause What do you get when you hand 30 or so guitarists a slew of ...