Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Slowhand returns to the Blues Albums chart this week in America.

Eric Clapton’s fifth solo album Slowhand debuts on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart at No. 2, nearly netting the guitarist another No. 1. British guitarist Eric Clapton performing on stage at the ...

Even if Eric Clapton was one of the leading voices in heavy music in the 1960s, it only took a couple of years before he was ...

In July 1974, Eric Clapton released his second solo album, 461 Ocean Boulevard. The album marked Clapton’s return to recording after a three-year period during which he struggled with drug addiction.

Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour will release Watching The Tide on August 28, a posthumous album featuring Eric Clapton, Brian May, Billy Gibbons and Ronnie Wood.

After dropping in on a ’68 Beatles session to play guitar on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” there was probably nothing that could intimidate Eric Clapton about a studio session. But the session he ...

Each year, I wait until the week prior to Thanksgiving to begin listening to Christmas music. I know that I won’t feel guilty for listening too early, and the delay of gratification is not deleterious ...