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Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood 2009 tour.
Eric Clapton concert tickets

Eric Clapton with the Allman Brothers Band - During the Allman Brothers Band historic 15 evening run at the Beacon Theater, Clapton set in on two of the evenings for a significant portion of the show.
3/19/09 - 6 songs with Clapton 

3/20/09 - 7 songs with Clapton 

Complete Clapton - October 2007 release.

Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 - Two DVD set

The Road to Escondido - Eric Clapton and J.J. Cale

Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton - Deluxe Edition 

Just One Night

As a contributor
Eric Clapton contributes to Jamie Oldaker's new album, Mad Dogs and Okies. Clapton has worked and recorded extensively with Oklahoma musicians throughout his career, including Delaney and Bonnie, Leon Russell, and J.J. Cale (who wrote “After Midnight” and “Cocaine”).

"I always liked Tulsa music for its no-compromise attitude, as if the musicians were making it just for themselves, without regard to what other people would think of it." -- Eric Clapton - Review  

ABOUT THEM SHOES, the new album from blues guitar legend Hubert Sumlin. Sumlin is joined by special guests Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, David Johansen, harmonica legend James Cotton and The Band's Levon Helm. Produced by Rob Fraboni, the album is a loving tribute to Muddy Waters and contains seven songs from Waters, four from Willie Dixon (written for Waters), one from Carl C. Wright and one from Sumlin himself.

Crossroads Guitar Festival DVD
In June 2004, some of the greatest living guitar players and their bands gathered at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, for a three-day festival to benefit the Crossroads Centre in Antigua. It was the ultimate concert for any music lover, featuring one legend after the other: Eric Clapton, BB King, Buddy Guy, Eric Johnson, James Taylor, Jimmie Vaughan, Joe Walsh, John Mayer, Robert Cray, Robert Randolph, Santana, ZZ Top, and many more. This 2-DVD set beautifully documents the event and contains over 4 hours of content.

Others
461 Ocean Blvd. - deluxe edition, wow.
Slowhand - SACD remastering
Clapton's Session's for Robert Johnson, a follow-up to his tribute to blues legend Robert Johnson,  Me and Mr. Johnson. 

Overview
Eric Clapton is a legendary musician. He is not only a master guitar player, but his songwriting is outstanding; it is rare to excel so highly in both realms. Certain phases of his career often leaned further towards showcasing guitar playing while others favored songwriting; perhaps his album Slowhand has the optimal balance between the two styles. Additionally, Eric Clapton’s music shifted between blues and pop, and his release of Unplugged was a superb balance of combining these two realms.

With such a long and distinguished career Eric Clapton’s sound took on many phases through his many early bands and distinguished solo career. With such an abundant of phases to Eric Clapton’s music it is expected that there are some periods that are better than others.  We have sifted through his career and will summarize what we feel is his best work. The links below will bring you to our album reviews.

The links below are for brief biographies about each of the bands provided by Djangomusic.

Eric Clapton
Yardbirds
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers
Cream
Blind Faith
Derek and the

2006 Tour  
LIST OF EUROPEAN TOUR DATES from marketwire

Clapton's tour band which consists of: Eric Clapton, Guitar, along with Doyle Bramhall II and Derek Trucks also on Guitar, Chris Stainton and Tim Carmon on Keyboards, Willie Weeks on Bass, Steve Jordan on Drums, The Kick Horns: Simon Clarke, Roddy Lorimer, and Tim Sanders on Brass, and backing vocals by Michelle John and Sharon White.

FRANCE May 5 2006 (Fri) Le Cannet La Palestre

UNITED KINGDOM May 8 2006 (Mon) Glasgow SECC May 9 2006 (Tues) Manchester MEN Arena May 11 2006 (Thurs) Birmingham NEC May 12 2006 (Fri) Sheffield Hallam FM Arena May 14 2006 (Sun) Nottingham Arena May 16 2006 (Tues) London Royal Albert Hall May 17 2006 (Wed) London Royal Albert Hall May 19 2006 (Fri) London Royal Albert Hall May 22 2006 (Mon) London Royal Albert Hall May 23 2006 (Tues) London Royal Albert Hall May 25 2006 (Thurs) London Royal Albert Hall May 26 2006 (Fri) London Royal Albert Hall

FRANCE May 28 2006 (Sun) Paris Bercy

BELGIUM May 31 2006 (Wed) Antwerp Sports Paleis

NETHERLANDS June 1 2006 (Thurs) Rotterdam Ahoy

GERMANY June 3 2006 (Sat) Frankfurt Festhalle June 4 2006 (Sun) Stuttgart Schleyerhalle June 6 2006 (Tues) Leipzig Arena June 7 2006 (Wed) Berlin Wuhlheide

UNITED KINGDOM June 9 2006 (Fri) Surrey Hampton Court Palace Festival June 10 2006 (Sat) Surrey Hampton Court Palace Festival

ITALY July 7 2006 (Fri) Lucca Piazza Napoleone July 8 2006 (Sat) Perugia Arena Santa Giuliana July 10 2006 (Mon) Verona Arena

GERMANY July 13 2006 (Thurs) Cologne Arena July 14 2006 (Fri) Dortmund Westfalenhalle

AUSTRIA July 16 2006 (Sun) Vienna Stadthalle

HUNGARY July 18 2006 (Tues) Budapest

CZECH REPUBLIC July 20 2006 (Thurs) Prague The Arena

GERMANY July 22 2006 (Sat) Munich Olympiahalle July 23 2006 (Sun) Mannheim SAP Arena July 25 2006 (Tue) Hamburg Colorline Arena

DENMARK July 26 2006 (Wed) Augustenborg Castle

NORWAY July 28 2006 (Fri) Oslo Spektrum

SWEDEN July 29 2006 (Sat) Stockholm Globen

FINLAND July 31 2006 (Mon) Helsinki Hartwall Arena

Eric Clapton Announces Historic Concert Performance in Red Square, Moscow August 3, 2006 Russian Date Completes European Tour NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 04/04/2006 -- Completing his previously announced European tour, Eric Clapton will perform a final, historic show for this leg of the world tour on August 3, 2006 in Red Square, Moscow. The Russian date wraps up the tour which begins May 5 in France and will travel through 14 countries.

This will be the first time Clapton has performed in Red Square, following in the footsteps of major artists such as Paul McCartney, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti who have all performed in the famed location, in addition to last year's historic Live 8 concert.