Robert Randolph and the Family Band's run with Eric Clapton has been extended to the guitarist's upcoming North American tour. The group is currently on the road in Europe with Clapton and will play Dortmund, Germany, tonight (April 14). The European tour will run through a six-night stand at London's Royal Albert Hall in early May. The North American dates get underway June 9 in Oklahoma City, Okla.

Randolph's crew will also perform at KFOG San Francisco's May 22 KaBoom show, Dana Point, Calif.'s Doheny Heritage Music Festival on May 23, Manchester, Tenn.'s third Bonnaroo event on June 12 and the Playboy Jazz Festival June 20 in Los Angeles.

Built in the gospel tradition around Randolph's "sacred steel" guitar playing, the roots act has been winning audiences over the last several years on the jam band circuit. Released in August 2003, the group's debut Dare/Warner Bros. studio album, "Unclassified," bowed at No. 4 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart and has sold 122,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

-- Barry A. Jeckell, N.Y.

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Rock trio Guster will on May 18 release the CD/DVD "Guster on Ice" via Palm/Reprise. The package was recorded last year in Portland, Maine. The audio disc features 13 tracks, including a cover of the Talking Heads' "Nothing (But Flowers)," while the DVD sports footage of those songs plus five additional tracks, directed by Danny Clinch.

Special DVD features include the documentary "Dave Yonkman's Week With Guster," music videos for "Careful" and "Amsterdam" and a variety of behind-the-scenes vignettes. Guster will support the release on an 18-date U.S. tour, which will visit mainly college campuses through May 8 at Ohio University in Athens.

The band will then play the Bonnaroo festival on June 13 in Manchester, Tenn., and regroup for four Midwest support dates for Dave Matthews Band in early August.

-- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

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Patti Scialfa will release her sophomore solo album, "23rd Street Lullaby," June 15 via Columbia. The E Street Band singer/guitarist and wife of Bruce Springsteen wrote the entirety of the 12-track album, which she co-produced with Steve Jordan (Keith Richards, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion).

Jordan also played drums on the set, which also sports contributions from E Street guitarist Nils Lofgren and singer/violinist Soozie Tyrell, bassist Willie Weeks, keyboardist Clifford Carter, guitarist Marc Ribot and cellist Jane Scarpantoni. One song, "Romeo," was heard in the 1998 film "No Looking Back."

Tyrell, Carter and Lofgren also helped out on Scialfa's 1993 debut, "Rumble Doll," which reached No. 23 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart. That set boasted appearances by Springsteen, drummers Jim Keltner and Kenny Aronoff, and Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench and guitarist Mike Campbell, among others.

Scialfa is playing a showcase concert this weekend at an as-yet-undisclosed location in New York. Columbia is giving tickets away through a trivia contest on her label-based Web site.

-- Barry A. Jeckell, N.Y.