Eric Clapton didn’t sign up for rock and roll simply to have hits. He was a brilliant guitarist and songwriter when the time called for it, but when he got the first itch to play guitar, it was more about trying to find the best blues licks that he could to put on record whenever […]
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In 1968, George Harrison began flexing his muscles as a songwriter worthy of comparison to the main axis of original Beatles music at the time, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. He contributed four songs to the band’s self-titled White Album, each of a markedly different character. The most famous and celebrated of these compositions is […]
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The late great George Harrison once told Crawdaddy, “I don’t feel like I’m writing songs. It’s like they’re being written through me.” With many of the greatest guitarists of all time, it often don’t sound like they’re playing something of this world. There will always be people whose approach to music is fairly simple, but […]
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It’s impossible to imagine that two guitarists like Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page have the same origin story in many respects. Both of them got started in the blues, and while each of them went in wildly different directions after they were established on their own, their time in The Yardbirds was the perfect breeding […]
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