Related to the Layla discussion - just watched a program on our local PBS in HDTV - Eric Clapton's "Crossroads Guitar Festival" concert. I missed the very beginning, but it is/was apparently an all-day concert (or maybe even multiple days - all I know is that some performances were during the day, and some were at night), held someplace in Texas, that Clapton organized. Basically a chance for him to invite a bunch of guitar players that he likes - most of them blues players, but some rock and country, too.
The reason I mention it is that there was a pretty good performance of Layla. I didn't catch the name of the guy who played slide.
The other thing is that Clapton plays with about half of the other artists.
Other artists included:
Robert Cray
Buddy Guy
BB King
Jimmy Vaughn
(Buddy, BB, Jimmy, and EC played together on one song, all sitting in chairs, in deference to BB King, who has gained a lot of weight)
Hubert Sumlin (also jammed with all of the above)
Carlos Santana
Vince Gill (who is a much better player than I realized)
John Mayer (ditto)
Joe Walsh (who did a pretty nice slow blues, backed by Booker T, Steve Cropper, and "Duck" Dunn, which sequed into Funk 49!)
James Taylor (Steamroller Blues, naturally, with Joe Walsh soloing)
closing act was "that little ol' band from Texas", ZZ Top
The concert is available on DVD - definitely worth catching on PBS, especially if you have HDTV capability.
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