This may be the best tribute disc I have ever heard. Why, might you ask? Because we are fortunate to have performing on this disc, perhaps the last of the practicing bluesmen that actually knew Robert ...

IN the press information accompanying his first album of new material in five years, Clapton notes that while recording these songs he and the other musicians would clear their heads periodically by ...

An early member of the 27 Club, blues master Robert Johnson has been an object of veneration among such rock luminaries as Eric Clapton and Keith Richards since 16 of the roughly three dozen ...

The year is starting off with a decidedly bluesy accent for Big Head Todd and the Monsters. The veteran group has stepped away from its usual program of doing original rock-oriented music to create a ...

Of course, Eric Clapton remembers the first time he heard Robert Johnson's music. He was 15. Already an aspiring blues guitarist, he would play a limited repertoire in the corner of a pub. Clapton and ...

1. Overheard at “The World of Bob Dylan” symposium, University of Tulsa (May 30-June 2): “I’m 71 years old. When will excruciatingly boring fat men cease trying to hit on me?” 2. Erin Durant, Islands ...