![]() ![]() The “Beano” album was over ten years old by the time Bonamassa was born, and its reverential takes on Chicago blues had long since morphed into the bone-crushing blues-rock of the Jeff Beck Group, Led Zeppelin, the early version of Fleetwood Mac, and other off-shoots of the London blues scene. That seminal album, along with the first Paul Butterfield LP, The Blues Project Live at the Café Au Go Go, and a few other white-kids-play-the-blues collections, led many a bedazzled young lad or lass to seek out the hard stuff-Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Etta James, the Three Kings, John Lee Hooker, the list goes on. He cites hearing John Mayall & the Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (the “Beano” album) as a particularly revelatory encounter. ![]() 2įor Joe Bonamassa, the UK “guitar gods” of the sixties were the gateway drug that led him to develop a passion for the blues. ![]()
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