{"id":2443269,"date":"2019-04-22T10:15:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T16:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=825431"},"modified":"2019-04-22T10:15:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T16:15:50","slug":"eric-clapton-announces-short-u-s-run-ahead-of-crossroads-guitar-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/eric-clapton-announces-short-u-s-run-ahead-of-crossroads-guitar-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Clapton Announces Short U.S. Run Ahead of Crossroads Guitar Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/clapton-dates.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/eric-clapton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_eric-clapton\" data-tag=\"eric-clapton\">Eric Clapton<\/a> will perform his first Crossroads Guitar Festival in six years in Dallas on September 20th and 21st, featuring the Tedeschi Trucks Band, Sheryl Crow, Joe Walsh, Bonnie Raitt, Gary Clark Jr. and more. Before that, the guitarist has announced he will head out on a small run of U.S. dates in San Francisco, Las Vegas and Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s good news for Clapton, who has threatened retirement for years. In 2014, he said, \u201cThe road has become unbearable\u201d and that he was looking into calling it quits. Two years later, he said that he nerve damage had seriously affected his ability to play. However, he has continued to perform, telling David Fricke in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/eric-clapton-talks-addiction-creams-brilliance-the-future-of-the-guitar-127052\/\">late 2017<\/a> that, \u201cI\u2019m as good now as I\u2019ve been in the last two years.\u201d He\u2019s playing a series of shows in Japan this month that have so far included rarities like \u201cRunning on Faith\u201d and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/eric-clapton-layla-live-824027\/\">first electric version of Layla<\/a> in six years.<\/p>\n<p>Clapton\u2019s band for the tour includes guitarists Doyle Bramhall II and Paul Carrack, bassist Nathan East, drummer Steve Gadd and keyboardist Chris Stainton along with Sharon White and Katie Kissoon on backing vocals. More information, including European dates ahead of the U.S. shows, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericclapton.com\/tour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">are on Clapton\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric Clapton Tour Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>September 11 \u2013 San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center<br \/>September 13 \u2013 Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena<br \/>September 14 \u2013 Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort Arena<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/eric-clapton-announces-short-u-s-run-ahead-of-crossroads-guitar-fest-825431\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Clapton will perform his first Crossroads Guitar Festival in six years in Dallas on September 20th and 21st, featuring the Tedeschi Trucks Band, Sheryl Crow, Joe Walsh, Bonnie Raitt, Gary Clark Jr. and more. Before that, the guitarist has announced he will head out on a small run of U.S. dates in San Francisco, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 17:10:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}