On this album I tried to strike a balance between those two ways of doing things.Ībsolutely. They’re so well rehearsed, their performance level is so high, they just go in and nail it-capturing a real performance. The question then becomes, how do you achieve that-by constantly redoing something? Or do you achieve it by being so proficient that you’re able to pull off something great at any given moment? Classical musicians don’t make music the way rock artists do, where there’s lots of overdubbing. The desire to play at that level was instilled in me. I grew up listening to classical music, to players whose performance level was very high. If you want to grow, you have to break down walls and find ways to work that are different from the past. If you keep to the same format, the vibe stays the same, even though the music might change.
I wanted to break some of that repetition. After a while, we start to create certain patterns in what we do. Bonamassa spoke with us about his guitar roots, his aversion to demos and the advice he received from the King of the Blues. His new solo effort, Dust Bowl, finds Bonamassa mixing incendiary originals with gritty covers like John Hiatt’s “Tennessee Plates” and Free’s “Heartbreaker.” The acclaimed six-stringer also recently wrapped up work on the second Black Country Communion album, set to be released in June and followed by a tour early next year. Bloodline recorded a self-titled album for Capitol Records in 1995 before breaking up, but now Bonamassa has a new supergroup alongside first- and second-generation rock royalty: Black Country Communion, which features Bonamassa, Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham and Derek Sherinian. A friendship with the late Danny Gatton helped to expand his musical horizons, and at age 14 he co-founded the band Bloodline with sons of Miles Davis, Robby Krieger and the Allman Brothers Band’s Berry Oakley. King when he was just 10, Bonamassa went on tour as a pre-teen with the likes of King, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray and John Lee Hooker. Record labels might not have believed in Bonamassa, but his guitar-slinging forbears certainly did. That way, if we failed, we did it on our terms.” We didn’t have a label that believed in us musically, so we decided to own and control everything ourselves. “But it was really just a case of necessity being the mother of invention. “People think my manager and I sat down and hatched a master plan,” says Bonamassa, who has spent most of his career releasing albums through J&R Adventures, the label he started with manager Roy Weisman. “But I knew there had to be a better way.” But more than a decade and a half into his career, today Bonamassa has arrived at the pinnacle of the blues-rock world-and he’s done it without the help of a record label. “People told me I was destined to play rib joints and biker rallies all my life,” says Joe Bonamassa, reflecting on his early years as a struggling blues-rock guitarist. A bomb is in this vehicle and will explode."Ī song was also heard playing from the RV, with an agent from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives identifying it as Petula Clark's "Downtown", a 1965 hit tune about going to the city to seek refuge from sadness.JOE BONAMASSA Goodbye to the rib joints, hello to blues-rock guitar hero status "Evacuate now," a digitized female voice broadcast from the RV warned. Warner, a self-employed computer guru, reportedly blared evacuation warnings before the bomb detonated on Second Avenue. Metro Nashville police chief John Drake added: "I cannot truly describe all the hard work that has gone into this investigation since Friday's explosion. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, told reporters earlier today. "He was present when the bomb went off and he perished in the bombing," Don Cochran, U.S. This was taken by my security cameras three blocks away from the bombing at 6:30am central time this morning."Īuthorities have identified 63-year-old Anthony Quinn Warner as the Nashville bomber after matching his DNA to remains found at the scene of the explosion. On Friday (December 25), Bonamassa - who splits his time between Nashville and Los Angeles - tweeted out the 12-second clip, and wrote in an accompanying message: "A message of love and support to my friends and family in Nashville on this Christmas Day. Guitar icon Joe Bonamassa has shared security camera footage from his apartment in Nashville capturing the explosion of a recreational vehicle on Christmas morning which damaged dozens of buildings, injured three people and knocked out AT&T wireless service in and around the city.
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