Eric Clapton's second annual Crossroads Guitar Festival will
take place at Chicago's Toyota Park
on July 28. All profits from the event will benefit Clapton's Antigua-based
rehabilitation program at the Crossroads Centre. Trey Anastasio is among the
celebrity musicians who has spent time at the Crossroads Centre in recent
months.
In addition to Clapton, the multi-band gathering will
feature performances by Jeff Beck, Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill, Buddy Guy, Alison
Krauss and Union Station, BB King, Sonny Landreth, Albert Lee, Los Lobos, John
Mayer, John McLaughlin, Willie Nelson, Hubert Sumlin, Jimmie Vaughan, and Steve
Winwood. Doyle Bramhall II and Derek Trucks, who currently serve as Clapton's
supporting guitarists, will both perform with Slowhand and their own bands. Trucks
has also confirmed that his wife, Susan Tedeschi, will perform with his band as
part of the couple's summertime Soul Stew Revival Tour.
Clapton has also booked two of his recent support arts,
Robert Cray and Robert Randolph and the
Family Band, with whom he collaborated on a nightly basis during his 2004 and
2006-7 world tours, respectively. Winwood is expected to perform a few numbers
with Clapton, presumably from the performers' ill-fated Blind Faith
supergroup. It is also a strong possibility that Clapton
will use the opportunity to jam with BB King on selections from the guitarist's
2000 album, Riding with the King.
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