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Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010 was released and is distributed by Rhino Records in corporation with the Warner Music Group. [3] The recording is nearly 240 minutes long and was recorded live at the Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Illinois on June 26, 2010. [4] The previous Crossroads Guitar Festival was also held at the same venue in the summer of ...
The Crossroads Guitar Festival is a series of music festivals and benefit concerts founded by Eric Clapton. The festivals benefit the Crossroads Centre founded by Eric Clapton, a drug treatment center in Antigua. The concerts showcase a variety of guitarists, selected by Eric Clapton personally.
In June 2010, he played at the Crossroads Guitar Festival with Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughan, and Eric Clapton. [67] He also contributed to Cyndi Lauper's album Memphis Blues which was released on June 22, 2010. [68] In 2011, King played at the Glastonbury Music Festival, [69] and in the Royal Albert Hall in London where he recorded a concert ...
B. B. King (1925–2015) was an American blues musician whose recording career spanned 1949–2008. As with other blues contemporaries, King's material was primarily released on singles until the late 1950s–early 1960s, when long playing record albums became more popular.
Live recordings include a 1996 tribute concert to Stevie Ray Vaughan, with Jimmie Vaughan, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Robert Cray, Dr. John, Bonnie Raitt, Art Neville and Buddy Guy. [3] Vaughan, Clapton, and others performed it at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2004 [4] and again in 2010 by Vaughan, Clapton, Robert Cray and Hubert Sumlin. [5]
Riding with the King was the first collaborative album by Eric Clapton and B.B. King. [1] [2] They performed together for the first time at Cafe Au Go Go in New York City in 1967 when Clapton was 22 and a member of Cream, but did not record together until 1997 when King collaborated with Clapton on the song "Rock Me Baby" for his duets album, Deuces Wild.
Also in 2010, he appeared as a guest musician on Eric Johnson's album Up Close, and he played with Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, BB King, Hubert Sumlin, and others during the Crossroads Guitar Festival. [7] He also performed on the episode of the TBS cable television show Conan, that aired December 22, 2010.
A young Trucks (right) with musician Livingston Taylor Trucks age 9–10 with the Gregg Allman band. Trucks was born in Jacksonville, Florida.According to Trucks, the name of Eric Clapton's band, Derek and the Dominos, had "something to do with the name [Derek] if not the spelling".