Editing Eric Clapton (section)

===Collaboration albums===
[[File:Eclapton cardiff.jpg|thumb|upright|Clapton performing for [[Tsunami Relief Cardiff]] at the [[Millennium Stadium]] in Cardiff, Wales, on 22 January 2005]]
Clapton released the album  ''[[Reptile (album)|Reptile]]'' in March 2001. One month after the [[11 September attacks]], Clapton appeared at [[the Concert for New York City]], performing alongside [[Buddy Guy]].<ref>{{cite news |last= Watson |first= Guy |date= 7 December 2012 |title= The Night The Who Saved New York |work= Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomwatson/2012/12/07/the-night-the-who-saved-new-york/?sh=7ac6eadb28c3 |access-date= 30 April 2024 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-concert-for-new-york-city-mw0000213296 "Concert for New York City – Various Artists"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820211416/http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-concert-for-new-york-city-mw0000213296 |date=20 August 2016 }}. AllMusic. Retrieved 28 May 2019</ref> An event marking the [[Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II]] in June 2002, Clapton performed "Layla" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the [[Party at the Palace]] concert in the grounds of [[Buckingham Palace]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2024971.stm|title=Palace party draws 15m viewers|work=BBC News|access-date=22 September 2014|date=4 June 2002|archive-date=25 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200825230704/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2024971.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> On 29 November 2002, the [[Concert for George]] was held at the [[Royal Albert Hall]], a tribute to George Harrison, who had died a year earlier of lung cancer.<ref name="2002concert">Stephen Thomas Erlewine. [https://www.allmusic.com/album/concert-for-george-r669282 "Concert for George"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111218233039/http://www.allmusic.com/album/concert-for-george-r669282 |date=18 December 2011 }}. AllMusic. Retrieved 15 May 2012</ref> Clapton was a performer and the musical director. The concert included Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, [[Jeff Lynne]], [[Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers]], [[Ravi Shankar]], [[Gary Brooker]], Billy Preston, [[Joe Brown (singer)|Joe Brown]] and [[Dhani Harrison]].<ref name="2002concert"/> In 2004, Clapton released two albums of covers of songs by bluesman [[Robert Johnson]], ''[[Me and Mr. Johnson]]'' and ''[[Me and Mr. Johnson#Sessions for Robert J|Sessions for Robert J]]''. Guitarist [[Doyle Bramhall II]] worked on the album with Clapton (after opening Clapton's 2001 tour with his band Smokestack) and joined him on his 2004 tour. In 2004, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked Clapton No.&nbsp;53 on their [[Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time|list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time"]].<ref>{{cite magazine| title = The Immortals| magazine=Rolling Stone |issue=946 | url =https://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/the_immortals | url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061017054537/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/the_immortals | archive-date = 17 October 2006 }}</ref> Other media appearances include the [[Toots & the Maytals]] Grammy award-winning album ''[[True Love (Toots & the Maytals album)|True Love]]'', where he played guitar on the track "[[Pressure Drop (song)|Pressure Drop]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.biography.com/people/frederick-toots-hibbert-10673303#acclaimed-musician |title=Frederick "Toots" Hibbert Biography |publisher=biography.com |access-date=2 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809204903/http://www.biography.com/people/frederick-toots-hibbert-10673303#acclaimed-musician |archive-date=9 August 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Clapton2342.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Clapton performing at the [[Rotterdam Ahoy|Ahoy Arena]] of Rotterdam on 1 June 2006]]
On 22 January 2005, Clapton performed in the [[Tsunami Relief Cardiff|Tsunami Relief Concert]] held at the [[Millennium Stadium]] in [[Cardiff]], in aid of the victims of the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake]]. In May 2005, Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker reunited as Cream for a series of concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Concert recordings were released on CD and DVD. Later, Cream performed in New York at [[Madison Square Garden]]. Clapton's first album of new original material in nearly five years, ''[[Back Home (Eric Clapton album)|Back Home]]'', was released on [[Reprise Records]] on {{nowrap|30 August}}.

A collaboration with guitarist J. J. Cale, ''[[The Road to Escondido]]'', was released on {{nowrap|7 November}} 2006, featuring [[Derek Trucks]] and Billy Preston (Preston had also been a part of Clapton's 2004 touring band). He invited Trucks to join his band for his 2006–2007 world tour. Bramhall remained, giving Clapton three elite guitarists in his band, allowing him to revisit many Derek and the Dominos songs that he hadn't played in decades. Trucks became the third member of the Allman Brothers Band to tour supporting Clapton, the second being pianist/keyboardist [[Chuck Leavell]], who appeared on the ''[[MTV Unplugged]]'' album and the ''[[24 Nights]]'' performances at the Royal Albert Hall, London in 1990 and 1991, as well as Clapton's 1992 US tour.<ref name="Music Legends">{{cite web|publisher=Music Legends|url=http://musiclegends.ca/interviews/chuck-leavell-interview-rolling-stones/|title=Chuck Leavell Interview|access-date=6 May 2013|date=8 April 2010|last=Saulnier|first=Jason|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216075205/http://musiclegends.ca/interviews/chuck-leavell-interview-rolling-stones/|archive-date=16 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On 20 May 2006, Clapton performed with [[Queen (band)|Queen]] drummer [[Roger Taylor (Queen drummer)|Roger Taylor]] and former [[Pink Floyd]] bassist/songwriter [[Roger Waters]] at [[Highclere Castle]], Hampshire, in support of the [[Countryside Alliance]], which promotes issues relating to the British countryside.<ref>Glenn Povey (2007). [https://books.google.com/books?id=qnnl3FnO-B4C&q=countryside+alliance+20+may+2006+-+clapton%2C+waters&pg=RA4-PT52 Echoes: the complete history of Pink Floyd] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415015309/https://books.google.com/books?id=qnnl3FnO-B4C&q=countryside+alliance+20+may+2006+-+clapton,+waters&pg=RA4-PT52 |date=15 April 2023 }} Mind Head Publishing. Retrieved 29 December 2011</ref> On {{nowrap|13 August}} 2006, Clapton made a guest appearance at the Bob Dylan concert in [[Columbus, Ohio]], playing guitar on three songs in [[Jimmie Vaughan]]'s opening act.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uweekly.com/cowtown/?p=121 |title=God has a summer home in Columbus |work=[[UWeekly]] |date=15 August 2005 |access-date=30 March 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927042854/http://uweekly.com/cowtown/?p=121 |archive-date=27 September 2007 }}</ref> The chemistry between Trucks and Clapton convinced him to invite [[the Derek Trucks Band]] to open for Clapton's set at his 2007 [[Crossroads Guitar Festival]]. Trucks remained on set and performed with Clapton's band throughout his performances. The rights to Clapton's official memoirs, written by Christopher Simon Sykes and published in 2007, were sold at the 2005 [[Frankfurt Book Fair]] for {{nowrap|US$4 million}}.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1597895,00.html | title = Joel Rickett on the latest news from the publishing industry | work = The Guardian | location = London | date = 22 October 2005 | access-date = 17 February 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071227170810/http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1597895,00.html | archive-date = 27 December 2007 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

[[File:CrossroadsGuitarFestival2007.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.95|Clapton (left) and actor [[Bill Murray]] kicking off the [[Crossroads Guitar Festival]], Illinois, on 27 July 2007]]
In 2007, Clapton learned more about his father, a Canadian soldier who left the UK after the war. Although Clapton's grandparents eventually told him the truth about his parentage, he only knew that his father's name was Edward Fryer. This was a source of disquiet for Clapton, as witnessed by his 1998 song "[[My Father's Eyes (song)|My Father's Eyes]]". A [[Montreal]] journalist named Michael Woloschuk researched Canadian Armed Forces service records and tracked down members of Fryer's family, and finally pieced together the story. He learned that Clapton's father was Edward Walter Fryer, born {{nowrap|21 March}} 1920, in [[Montreal]] and died {{nowrap|15 May 1985}} in [[Newmarket, Ontario]]. Fryer was a musician (piano and saxophone) and a lifelong drifter who was married several times, had several children, and apparently never knew that he was the father of Eric Clapton.<ref>{{cite news | work = [[Ottawa Citizen]] | url = http://www.eric-clapton.co.uk/interviewsandarticles/hisfatherseyes.htm | title = His Father's Eyes | first = Michael | last = Woloschuk |date= 26 March 1998 |page= A1 | access-date = 17 February 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070129210214/http://www.eric-clapton.co.uk/interviewsandarticles/hisfatherseyes.htm | archive-date = 29 January 2007 | url-status = dead }}</ref> Clapton thanked Woloschuk in an encounter at [[Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport|Macdonald–Cartier Airport]], in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.<ref>{{cite news | work = Canoe Jam | url = http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/C/Clapton_Eric/1998/09/16/743979.html | title = Clapton Thanks Reporter | first = Michael | last = Woloschuk | access-date = 17 February 2007 | url-status=usurped | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120712085125/http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/C/Clapton_Eric/1998/09/16/743979.html | archive-date = 12 July 2012}}</ref>

On 26 February 2008, it was reported that Clapton had been invited to play a concert in North Korea by government officials.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/26/clapton.northkorea.ap/index.html |title=Eric Clapton 'receives North Korean invite' |work=CNN|date=26 February 2008 |access-date=26 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080303060303/http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/26/clapton.northkorea.ap/index.html |archive-date=3 March 2008 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> Clapton agreed in principle and suggested it take place in 2009.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7265467.stm | title = Clapton asked to play in North Korea | work = BBC News | date = 26 February 2008 | access-date = 26 February 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080302045018/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7265467.stm | archive-date = 2 March 2008 | url-status = live }}</ref> Kristen Foster, a spokesperson for Clapton, said that he regularly received offers to play abroad and that there had been no agreement for him to play in North Korea.<ref>{{cite news |date=27 February 2008 |title=North Korea Seeks A Clapton Concert |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980DE2DE113FF934A15751C0A96E9C8B63 |url-status=live |access-date=7 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312082500/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980DE2DE113FF934A15751C0A96E9C8B63 |archive-date=12 March 2012}}</ref> In February 2008, Clapton performed with his long-time friend [[Steve Winwood]] at Madison Square Garden and guested on his recorded single, "Dirty City", on Winwood's album ''[[Nine Lives (Steve Winwood album)|Nine Lives]]''. The two former Blind Faith bandmates met again for a series of 14 concerts throughout the United States in June 2009. Clapton's 2008 Summer Tour began on {{nowrap|3 May}} at the [[Ford Amphitheatre (Tampa)|Ford Amphitheatre]], [[Tampa, Florida]], and then moved to Canada, Ireland, England, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Poland, Germany, and Monaco. On {{nowrap|28 June}} 2008, he headlined Saturday night for [[Hard Rock Calling]] 2008 in London's Hyde Park (previously Hyde Park Calling) with support from [[Sheryl Crow]] and [[John Mayer]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://2008.hardrockcalling.co.uk/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100316200910/http://2008.hardrockcalling.co.uk/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 March 2010 |title=Hard Rock Calling |work=Live Nation (Music) UK Limited |publisher=Hard Rock Calling |access-date=7 May 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ericclapton-online.com/2008-summer-tour/hard-rock-calling-hyde-park-london-saturday-28-june-2008.html |title=Hard Rock Calling, Hyde Park, London Saturday 28&nbsp;June 2008 |publisher=Eric Clapton Online |access-date=7 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710195435/http://www.ericclapton-online.com/2008-summer-tour/hard-rock-calling-hyde-park-london-saturday-28-june-2008.html |archive-date=10 July 2011 }}</ref>

[[File:Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.jpg|thumb|left|Clapton (right) performing with [[the Allman Brothers Band]] at the [[Beacon Theatre (New York City)|Beacon Theatre]], New York City, in March 2009]]
In March 2009, the Allman Brothers Band (amongst many notable guests) celebrated their 40th year, dedicating their string of concerts to the late Duane Allman on their annual run at the [[Beacon Theatre (New York City)|Beacon Theatre]]. Eric Clapton was one of the performers, with drummer [[Butch Trucks]] remarking that the performance was not the typical Allman Brothers experience, given the number and musical styles of the guests who were invited to perform. Songs like "[[In Memory of Elizabeth Reed]]" were punctuated with others, including "[[The Weight]]", with [[Levon Helm]]; [[Johnny Winter]] sitting in on Hendrix's "[[Red House (song)|Red House]]"; and "Layla". On {{nowrap|4 May}} 2009 Clapton appeared at the Royal Albert Hall, playing "[[Further on Up the Road]]" with [[Joe Bonamassa]].

Clapton was scheduled to perform at the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]]'s 25th anniversary concert in Madison Square Garden on {{nowrap|30 October}} 2009, but cancelled due to [[gallstone]] surgery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://entertainment.oneindia.in/music/international/2009/eric-out-rocknroll-hall-gig-281009.html|title=Eric Clapton pulls out of rock and roll gig|date=28 October 2009|publisher=entertainment.oneindia.in|access-date=30 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515171531/http://entertainment.oneindia.in/music/international/2009/eric-out-rocknroll-hall-gig-281009.html|archive-date=15 May 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Van Morrison]] (who also cancelled)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/10/leonard_cohen_a_2.html|title=Leonard Cohen and Van Morrison at MSG this weekend but Van will not be back for Rock Hall of Fame|publisher=brooklynvegan.com|access-date=30 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028132710/http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/10/leonard_cohen_a_2.html|archive-date=28 October 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> said in an interview that he and Clapton were to do a "couple of songs", but that they would do something else together at "some other stage of the game".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wabcradio.com/sectional.asp?id=22807|title=Imus in the morning: highlights and interviews|publisher=wabcradio.com|access-date=30 October 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090516023944/http://www.wabcradio.com/sectional.asp?id=22807|archive-date=16 May 2009}}</ref>