Click here if you have a memory of this artist that you’d like to share

Joe Bonamassa (guitar & vocals) is featured during a concert performance in 2012.

Born in New Hartford, New York in his youth rater than developing the typical influence of American delta blues artists like many of his contemporaries, Joe Bonamassa derived his inspiration predominantly from British an Irish musicians.

Most prominent among them were Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Rory Gallagher, while Bonamassa also admits to being affected artistically by Stevie Ray Vaughan’s 1983 “Texas Flood” LP.

Really The Blues is sponsored by Jazz on the Tube
Click here to Support US