Guitarist Joe Bonamassa continues to redefine the blues on latest album
Bonamassa has released more than 40 albums, has 28 No. 1 hits on the Billboard blues album chart and has been hailed as “arguably the world’s biggest blues guitarist” by Guitar World.
‘Most underrated musician’ holds the key to the Bay Area sound
Never heard of this guy.” This innocuous dismissal appeared — where else? — in the comments section of a YouTube video announcing that Oakland homegrown R&B superstar Raphael Saadiq was going to ...
Joe Bonamassa opened for B.B. King at 12, and hasn’t stopped playing since
Back in 1989, when Joe Bonamassa was 12 years old, he had enough guitar chops to open for the legendary B.B. King. From there ...
Forty years in, Joe Bonamassa is still happy to have the blues
It's been 40 years since Joe Bonamassa's first solo album, and since then the guitar hero has been one of the hardest-working ...
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On The Record: Standout Blues Albums from Mark Muleman Massey, Tommy Castro & the Painkillers
Massey’s new album, Been a Long, Long Time, is named for its lead-off cut. However, the title could also reflect the fact ...
My Night With the Blues Brothers
When the broadcast was over, we all filed out of the studio in a daze, that rediscovery of “Soul Man” and the band’s merger of Chicago blues and Memphis soul following us out into the streets. It was ...