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“You don't need a wall of Marshall stacks in order to be dark": Tom Morello on how acoustic music can be just as ‘hard’ as metal
By Will Simpson published
Morello and Bonamassa dispense some sage advice

Watch Joe Bonamassa play slide on Rory Gallagher’s ’59 Esquire and explain why Gallagher was an icon
By Jonathan Horsley published
“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”

“I am sad and slightly pissed off that he didn't live to see it”: Joe Bonamassa on the Hall Of Fame’s treatment of John Mayall
By Will Simpson published
Joe Bonamassa on the Hall Of Fame's shabby treatment of John Mayall

Joe Bonamassa talks vintage guitars and unfair accusations
By Rob Laing published
"Anything in my collection, with the exception of maybe 20 pieces, you could source from somewhere else"

Joe Bonamassa says “perception of scarcity” drives up vintage gear prices, not actual scarcity
By Jonathan Horsley published
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

"If we do this correctly, I think this could be one of the best blues songs ever!": How Joe Bonamassa and Kevin Shirley took an obscure Tim Curry track to a whole new level
By Matt Frost published
"When I first heard it, I was really stricken by the guitar playing, and I was really taken by the whole vibe of it"

“It’s noisy, it’s wild, and I’m by no means Jimi Hendrix, but we’ll get the gist”: Can Joe Bonamassa make a $1000 Band Of Gypsys rig sound like its vintage equivalent?
By Jonathan Horsley published
Watch JoBo pit two Hendrix-inspired rigs against each other from the comfort of his living room, one with a Squier Strat, a Peavey Classic and Dunlop pedals, the other all megabucks vintage gear

"If you put those time limits on things, you're never gonna get to where you want to be": Joe Bonamassa has some solid advice for any musician working to be successful but doubting themselves
By Rob Laing published
Anyone who thinks they might be 'past it' needs to hear this

"For me it was either the beginning of the beginning or the beginning of the end": the night Eric Clapton guested with Joe Bonamassa at the Royal Albert Hall and changed his career
By Rob Laing published
"I can never repay him for what he did because he came out and did something that turned my career around"

“The riffs are tougher, and there are hooks! Yes, hooks!”: Black Country Communion announce new album and Joe Bonamassa’s guitar is pure fire on the supergroup’s new single, Stay Free
By Jonathan Horsley published
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
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