Kelly Price Gets Eric Clapton To Guest On New Album

LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - Rock legend Eric Clapton collaborates with platinum R&B singer Kelly Price on the song "Again" from Price's third album, Priceless, which is due out on June 25 on Def Soul records.

Clapton graciously agreed to appear on Price's record after her A&R and management representatives put in her request to work with him, the singer told. Price was surprised to find out that Clapton was familiar with her work. "And once the connection was made, we found out that Eric Clapton was not only aware of who I was, but was a very big fan of my work, and agreed to do it with no strings attached, except for one thing. And the one thing is that I agreed to come back and do a recording with him on his next project."

Price added that Clapton was the perfect fit for the effort. "I produced the song, it's a song that has kinda a Latin flavor to it, but it's not beating you over the head with Latin flavor. You get it because it's very, very heavy with guitars and acoustic feel, so that's really where it comes from. Other than my voice, the guitar is the dominant thing in the song. And so, I know a lot of great guitar players, but I just kept telling myself, 'Wouldn't it be amazing to have one of the best guitar players in the world, where it would be the feature on this particular song?'"

Price's teaming with Clapton isn't her first effort featuring an artist outside of the hip-hop/R&B arena. Country star Wynonna Judd performed a duet with Price on Price's holiday album, One Family: A Christmas Album, released last November.

The song "How Does It Feel? (Married Your Girl)" is the first single from Priceless, which also includes songs with Faith Evans and the Clark Sisters.