Blues fans can look forward to some heady music when Eric Clapton jams with Indian musician Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.

Bhatt said he was in touch with Clapton, but it was too early to specify any dates.

“There is a collaboration with Eric Clapton in the offing,” he told The Times of India newspaper today.

Bhatt plays the mohan veena, a version of the slide guitar that assimilates traditional Indian string instruments such as the sitar, sarod and veena.

He won a Grammy along with guitarist Ry Cooder in 1994 for a world music album, A Meeting By The River.