Is eric clapton's music considered hard rock?

No, not at all.

Hard Rock is more like:

Metallica, Doken, Cindarella, Judas Preist, Disturbed, God Smack, etc., etc.

His roots have always been the blues. Even Cream was a blues band, high powered but still the blues.

When his son died, I expected the next album to be a blues album. Although, "Clapton Unplugged" was the next release what followed that was "From the Cradle" which was a great tribute to his blues roots. He more recently released a tribute to Robert Johnson.

I have always viewed him as a blues man.

Many of the "English Invasion" bands loved the early blues performers. We can thank the British for what little film we have of those great players as there was a blues revival in England and Europe in the late 50's and early 60's. They dug up the old performers and brought them to England and put them on TV.

Part of what makes Clapton great is his versatility. His style has changed through the years but has always been rooted in blues. He's done blues-rock, hard rock (Cream phase), psychedelic rock, pop and reggae! To classify him under any one genre is to miss the point!

Blues Rock + A little combination of Jazz

Classic/Blues rock

Definitely not "hard rock". His music would have to be considered blues, maybe even classic rock.

Some of his earlier stuff was pretty heavy, but I wouldn't consider it hard rock. It had more of a bluesy classic rock feel to it.

Blues rock!

It was a long time ago when he was with the Yardbirds back in the 60s, then there was Cream and Derrick and the Dominos.

But now he has mellowed with old age.

i'll hardly answer this. So the tactic i'll apply to sparkling up this kind of not straightforward predicament is to ask myself which one's albums i might want to sit down down and hear to today, and my answer comes up "The Who", because Eric has, certainly, made various lame albums.

His music change when his young son fell to his death from a 52 story window, he plays more hearted music now.