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Musician Eric Clapton announced Wednesday that his next album, Eric Clapton Plays The Blues, would be a collection of songs primarily influenced by blues music, a genre the 66-year-old guitarist said he enjoys very much.

"I've always been interested in blues music, and this album will really explore that interest," Clapton told reporters, explaining that many of the new songs would feature long blues guitar solos, repeating 12-bar-blues chord structures, and lyrical themes centered around both getting and continuing to have the blues.

"I'm fairly confident about the project, as I plan to sing with a sort of forlorn, bluesy quality in my voice, and I'll be playing a lot of E, A, and B chords, along with all the blue notes of the scale. Just pure and simple blues, really." Clapton later admitted that while each track would definitely be inspired by blues music, the final product might actually be more of a blues-rock album.

Eric Clapton To Release New Album Inspired By Blues Music | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

^ Article from this past August -- but this is the first I've heard of this excellent news...

I thought I'd pass along to all the EC fans out there.

Um. Groovy. You, uh, know the Onion is a joke site right? The site is just mocking Clapton's very well documented love of the blues.

The site also tells me that 96% of the world's population would rather be an Animatronic Bear, that Kim Jong-Un privately doubts he's crazy enough to be a North Korean leader, and that nobody has heard from David Blaine for a while, and thus suggests someone should make sure he hasn't died or something.

Unfortunately, I don't think Slowhand actually has an album in the works at this point in time