Eric Clapton

The 10 Texas Blues Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

Watching the Devil tune his guitar in the middle of the night isn't how Robert (or Tommy) Johnson imagined he'd be spending his Saturday night. When that ol' demon started playing songs, fire flew from his fingertips as an otherworldly sound reverberated into the night. According to legend, despite ... More >>

David Bowie Tops the Dallas Independent Record Store Charts

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Consensus arose at Good Records and CD Source as David Bowie takes the lead in top selling alb ... More >>

Eric Clapton at American Airlines Center, 3/19/13: Review

Last night, Eric Clapton and Dallas-born guitarist Doyle Bramhall II set fire to their Stratocasters' fretboards. Their fingers slid across the neck, bending strings until they bled the blues. Feeding off a musical energy straight from the Crossroads, the talented guitarists empowered some of Clapto ... More >>

Greg Richling of the Wallflowers Has a Pedigree Equal to His Famous Frontman

Greg Richling, bassist for The Wallflowers, was pretty happy when Jacob Dylan called him and decided to get The Wallflowers back together in 2011. It had been over six years since the band had recorded and Dylan's solo career had brought him some of the best accolades of his career. Thankfully, The ... More >>

B.B. King Gave the House of Blues His Picks, His Bracelets and a Holy Blues Masterpiece: Review

"Electrifying," "Magnetic," "Memorable" are just some of the words that people used to describe an evening with B.B. King at the House of Blues in Dallas. His sophisticated style of soul-wrenching guitar playing inspired tears of joy and calls of "Amen," "Preach it, brother" and "Oh Lord, I'm coming ... More >>

Bugs Benefit at the Palladium

Hidden Away: Uncovering Dallas' Faded Blues

Blues veteran Jim Suhler takes us on a tour of the city's musical past.

Buddy Guy: "If [Clapton] Says That I Am The Greatest Guitar Player Ever, Then Maybe I Am."

Buddy Guy​At 75, guitarist Buddy Guy remains as nimble of a string-bender as he was when his career started over 50 years ago. And what a career it's been: Eric Clapton calls Guy the greatest player ever, and, clearly, Guy has influenced generations of blues guitarists. He still makes gr ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Clapton, Beck & Page's Reunion at Reunion in Nov. '83

​This work-week ender is a double-header -- two nights in November 1983, back-to-back benefits for the great Ronnie Lane, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1976. It was Lane himself who came up with the benefits, held beneath the banner of Action for Research into Multiple Sclerosis -- ... More >>

Ten Songs That Will Maybe, Hopefully, Possibly Help Us Get A Little Rain in North Texas, Please.

​According to the National Weather Service, Tropical Storm Don is headed for Texas. Although this forecast sounds like something to be happy about -- Dallas could use some much-needed rain from Don's periphery -- CBS is reporting that North Texas will most likely see no effects from the storm, ... More >>

What's In A Name? Here Are 13 Acts Named After People Not Even In The Band.

No one in Noah and The Whale is actually named Noah, turns out.​Tonight at Dada, the English indie folk outfit known as Noah and the Whale will perform. Good band, interesting name -- especially since, we just realized, there isn't actually a dude named Noah in the group after all. Not even a guy ... More >>

Since You'll Probably Never Get to Go Inside 508 Park Ave., David Dennard Tours It For You

Photos courtesy David DennardThe makeshift studio in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys and the Light Crust Doughboys, among others, recorded in the mid-1930s​It would seem 508 Park Avenue's been heavy on my mind of late, even more than usual, what with Robert Johnson's just-pa ... More >>

UT-Dallas Researchers' Potential Tinnitus Cure Rings Loudly in Scientific Community's Ears

​First I'd ever heard of tinnitus was when Who guitarist Pete Townshend announced the ringing in his ears had gotten so bad he might have to hang up his Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster for good. Then I became a music critic, stood too close to too many stages and speakers for too many years, and ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Cream at the Crossroads (OK, Memorial Auditorium)

Via​Last month we listened in as Leslie West, Jack Bruce and Corky Laing played Memorial Auditorium in downtown Dallas on November 29, 1972. This morning, we go back four years earlier -- to when Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton came through town on Cream's farewell tour, hitting Memorial on O ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The "Lost" Stevie Ray Vaughan Recordings of '78

​Your week-ending farewell comes a little earlier than usual this week with good reason: Twenty years ago today, at around this very time, I was sitting at my desk at the Dallas Times Herald writing for the afternoon edition the front-page obituary for Stevie Ray Vaughan, who died in a helicopter ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Eric Clapton Was God at Dallas Convention Center in November '76, But Freddie Was Still King

​Of all the weekend-listening suggestions I've posted since whenever this started, that Freddie King KZEW revue ranks high on the list -- I've listened to it start-to-finish a dozen times since posting two weeks ago. Hard to see how it gets much better than that, but after sitting through back-to- ... More >>

Listomania: 10 Songs Dad Made Us Hate

Hey Dad, need to put old Bob Seger back on the shelf. ​Dear Dad, First of all, Happy Father's Day. OK, now that that's done, we've got something to say. Our heads our going to explode, Scanners-style, if we hear you jack up the radio to ZZ Top's "La Grange" again. Maybe back in the day, when you ... More >>

Your Second Friday (Acid) Flashback: A Saturday in the Life of KNUS, Ads Included

KNUS99.com​We wrap our broadcast week with yet more from the KNUS vaults currently in the possession of one George Gimarc. What you'll find below are few minutes of what aired on Gordon McLendon's FM freak-out on August 22, 1970 -- some of the sounds and some of the smells, dig? The best part: the ... More >>

Cray-zy Train

All aboard for a night of modern blues

Holy Hump Day, Batman! More Gig Alerts!

The masked men in Hollywood Undead hit the HOB with some friends tonight.Must (still) be SXSW backwash pleasantly infecting our area, as there's quite a bevy of shows on tap for this evening around the region...

On The Range: Tamales

Pig's head tamales?Well, yes. Robb Walsh notes in his Tex-Mex cookbook that traditional emporiums use pig's heads as their base meat when making their husky creations. The head is boiled until the meat and lard cook away, then the broth is used to moisten the masa harina (corn meal infused with lime ... More >>

Lá Me

Bowling for Great Cheap Vietnamese

He's The Guy

A Mean Pinball

Denton rockers tackle Tommy

Eric Clapton Covers Buddy Holly

Buddy Guy with The Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Thursday, April 17, at House of Blues

DVD Releases for the Week of November 20

Clapton Calls it "Stormy Monday" in 1970

Khaki Blues

Clapton plays in white at the AAC

So Blue

These musicians have the blues, but they're happy to be here

The Arcade Fire

Saturday, January 22, at Trees

Helping Out

Granada benefit show to help tsunami victims

Johnny A.

Thursday, December 2

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Brian Wilson

Gettin' in Over My Head (Rhino)

And Another Thing

A New Texas Jam

Crossroads Guitar Festival celebrates six-strings and the men who make them famous

Classic, Rock

Why is the most important producer in rock history a footnote?

Various Artists

The Osbourne Family Album (Epic)

Jools Holland

Small World Big Band (Warner Music UK)

Out There

The mind's ear

Jimmie Vaughan is two albums into a solo career he didn't necessarily want

Letters

Out There

Out Here

Can't see the forest

Tree-hugging compilation album takes on a Texas conglomerate

Hope you die before we get old

Reunited Who and Sex Pistols cheat death one more time

More a legend than a band

Sloppy and perfect, Golden Smog is the best of all worlds

Roadshows

Trouble blues

Buddy Guy doesn't want money or fame, just a little respect