Start the weekend right with Bonamassa's rendition of the Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters tune, taken from his forthcoming and as yet untitled new studio album

Bonamassa played the entire track with an Ovation acoustic through an overdriven amp

The answer, says Bonamassa, is on the record. It features eight covers, two originals, and is out 6 October via J&R Adventures. And you can watch the video for Twenty-Four Hour Blues now

Bonamassa's British blues-inspired take on the Guitar Slim cover is the third single to be released ahead of his forthcoming album, Blues Deluxe Vol 2, which is out 6 October

The guitar giants jammed at Paisley's 4th July bash and played three songs together

Well, what are you gonna do if you’ve got a great horn part and a rhythm that won't quit?

"I can never repay him for what he did because he came out and did something that turned my career around"

Available on CD/DVD, this is the blues with an orchestra at a venue that had long been on the Bonamassa bucket list, and you can watch Twenty-Four Hour Blues right here, right now

Joe and a heap of vintage gear was in Sunset Sound studio with bandmates Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham and Derek Sherinian

"Part of your gig is to know when to use the guitar as a weapon and to know when to use it as something that creates a very vocal type of sound"

Bonamassa ditches the pick and picks up the SG for a laid-back version of AC/DC's hard-rock anthem, but sadly does not perform in school uniform

Joe Bonamassa demos the tones and tells the stories behind two much-loved Hendrix-era electrics in his collection, and they sound – and look – incredible

Gallagher's number one Dallas Rangemaster was up for auction. But the late Irish blues-rock icon's family kept it back and gifted it to Bonamassa

Martin and JoBo unveiled on a meticulous replica of his 1941 000-45 in November but might this be upstaged by a version with the "ultimate tonewood"?

“I came up with an extreme solution to a simple problem,” says Bonamassa, whose extreme solution involved a 1959 Gibson Les Paul, a Dumble Overdrive Special, and a Deep Purple riff

Just as they did with “Lazarus”, Bonamassa and Epiphone spec up an affordable but serious electric guitar based on one of the vintage unicorns from the bluesman's epic collection

"Bobby Parker showed up with a Dimebag Darrell Dean - he ripped into the blues and he didn't care"

The supergroup featuring Joe Bonamassa, Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham and Derek Sherinian release first new music in seven years, and it's a heavy rock groover to trample you underfoot

"When I first heard it, I was really stricken by the guitar playing, and I was really taken by the whole vibe of it"

"I can already tell you this one sounds better than one of my original '55s," says Joe. And there's a new Flying V too!

The hottest mod of the year? These replicate the same gray-bottomed single-coils in the ’64 Stratocaster that stopped Bonamassa in his tracks at Norman’s Rare Guitars

Get more out of your guitar's controls

“Here was this guy with long hair and a flannel shirt, and looked as if he just came out of an auto factory, and playing some some of the most gutbucket blues and rock you’d ever heard”

It's all going down at the Crossroads – literally in the case of Eric Gales, Samantha Fish and Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram who covered Freddie King's classic

The blues superstar says he could see someone spending more than a million on a '59 Les Paul, but argues a guitar is only worth what you are willing to pay for it

"Would you rather please the critics at Rolling Stone or please the fans that put you there?"

Bonamassa says fires raged in Studio City and Runyon Canyon and could "easily" have taken Nerdville as a red flag warning of critical fire conditions remains in place across LA and southern California

Pre-War mojo off the charts, but you’d better act fast – the blues superstar’s signature acoustic is limited to just 45 instruments

Believe the hype. Mancuso's debut LP, The Journey, is further evidence that he is the maestro guitar has been waiting for. Steve Vai, Joe Bonamassa, Tosin Abasi… They saw this coming.

Anyone who thinks they might be 'past it' needs to hear this