Re: Eric Clapton

["Alec Drachman" <alec@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Clapton started with the Yardbirds who did mostly blues tunes in their early
years. When they started to do more pop tunes, Clapton quit and joined John
Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Even Cream (arguably the hardest rock group Clapton
was in) did many blues tunes. He has featured at least some blues tunes on
almost every solo record he has recorded and his "From the Cradle" album is
entirely blues.

His biggest influences were Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Freddie King, and
T-bone Walker.

Even on his rock tunes, his solos are very bluesy. I'd say he's been a
Bluesman for 40 years now.

Harp content: The Yardbirds' "New York City Blues" was the first song I
heard that really made me want to play harp. The first real blues harp I
heard was Sonny Boy Williamson with the Yardbirds. It was my interest in
this record that caused my Dad to buy me a Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
record for Christmas and that changed my life. So I guess I could say that
it was British music that steered me toward American blues.


Alec Drachman
http://www.bluecats.org

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "the Leones" <leone@xxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 10:34 AM
Subject: Eric Clapton


>
>
>   I am not too young (61) and I "may" not be as informed as some
> people, but I was unaware that Eric Clapton had anything to do with
> blues till a couple yrs ago when he started appearing on TV, was
> SOLO, and playing an Acoustic Guitar (Acoustically).