Clapton And King Together Again

10/05/1999 4:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(10/5/99, 1 a.m. PDT) - Eric Clapton and B.B. King will once again join substantial guitar forces, this time for a new album. A spokesperson for Reprise Records, Clapton's label, confirms that the guitarist has studio plans with King in January.

The nature of the project is unknown, as is the home of the resulting album, although the spokesperson hoped it would be Reprise, which will release Clapton Chronicles: The Best Of Eric Clapton, on Oct. 12. King records for MCA Records.

Both Clapton and King are on the bill for VH1's Save The Music benefit "Concert Of The Century." Also on the Oct. 23 bill at the White House in Washington, D.C. will be Aretha Franklin, John Fogerty, John Mellencamp, Bono, Gloria Estefan, Sheryl Crow, Lenny Kravitz, 'N Sync, and Late Show With David Letterman bandleader Paul Shaffer, who is the event's music director. The evening's hosts will include Ben Affleck, Angela Bassett, Meryl Streep, and Billy Bob Thornton.

B.B. King tour dates:

12/3 - Atlantic City, N.J., Tropicana Hotel
12/5 - Worcester, Mass., Palladium
12/7 - Amherst, Mass., University Of Massachusetts
12/8 - Wilkes-Barre, Penn., Kirby Center Of The Arts
12/9 - Washington, D.C., Constitution Hall
12/10 - Providence, R.I., Providence Performing Arts Center
12/11 - Newark, N.J., Performing Arts Center
12/12 - Detroit, Mich., Royal Oak Music Theater
12/14 - York, Penn., Strand Capital Theater
12/16 - Lowell, Mass., Memorial Auditorium
12/17 - Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Mid Hudson Civic Center
12/18 - Pittsburgh, Penn., Pepsi Roadhouse
12/19 - Easton, Penn., State Theater
12/30 - Memphis, Tenn., Corporate
1/1 - Ronisonville, Miss., Sam's Town Casino

To read a B.B. King feature, click here. Features on Aretha Franklin, Sheryl Crow, and Lenny Kravitz are also available.

-- Barry Jeckell and Sue Falco, New York

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