Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck To Perform at Benefit

Guitar legends Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck will perform together as part of Clapton's second annual Crossroads Guitar Festival which will take place at Toyota Park in Chicago on July 28. In the mid-'60s Beck replaced Clapton in the British rock band, The Yardbirds. Clapton also intends to revisit Blind Faith, the band he formed with Stevie Winwood and others after Cream broke up, during the fest. He plans to join Winwood in a "mini-reunion of the famously short-lived band that put out one album and toured in 1969," according to Rolling Stone. “We’ve got unfinished business,” Clapton said during a Rolling Stone interview.The fest will also feature Buddy Guy, Albert Lee, B.B. King, John Mayer, Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson and Vince Gill, Derek Trucks, Alison Krauss & Union Station, John McLaughlin, Sonny Landreth, the Robert Cray Band, Hubert Sumlin, Doyle Bramhall, Jimmie Vaughan and others. The festival benefits the Crossroads Center, a drug and alcohol treatment facility located on the island of Antigua in the West Indies that Clapton founded in 1997.