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Eric Clapton is Being Sued for Attributing Unplugged’s “Alberta” to the Wrong Blues Singer

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It’s an issue of the gray area between “traditional” music and actual copyrighted material: Billboard reports that Eric Clapton was slapped with a lawsuit today over the songwriter credits to “Alberta,” a blues cover on his widely beloved 1992 Unplugged album.

Best known for the Clapton original “Tears in Heaven,” the album also features several…