Mar 30, 2007
God
I don't know whether Eric Clapton reads L&P, but if he does: Happy Birthday!
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Well, maybe it's a father/son/holy-spirit thing....
I too revere Eric Clapton. Along with people like Charlie Musselwhite, Paul Butterfield, and John Mayall he turned blues into something that white people could do without either screwing it up musically or pretending to be black. But ... God? Robert Johnson is God! There is no God but Robert, and Eric is His prophet.