Photo: Steve Janowicz

July, Featured Artist

( All our playlists will include Joe Bonamassa tracks.)

Sunday July 5 22:00 Assume The Position (interview); repeated Friday 10 July, 22:00

When you play to a sold-out Albert Hall in London you know you have arrived. And, for Joe Bonamassa in May 2009, the taste must have been especially sweet as this was the former stomping ground for his spiritual antecedent Eric Clapton, and Cream, forty years earlier.

Joe Bonamassa's debut album was released in 2000, 'New Day Yesterday', and started a trend for cover versions, also reflecting his musical influences, in particular seventies rock influenced by Led Zeppelin and Free.

Picking up awards for 'best blues guitarist' in 2007 and 2008, Bonamassa has since progressed to embrace a more rock orientated style, blues influenced, but taking in progressive and heavier rock elements at times. To this end, his latest album released in 2009 'The Ballad Of John Henry' is again produced by Kevin Shirley (Aerosmith, Journey, Rush, Led Zeppelin etc.).


UK dates

11 July, Guilfest

28 November LLANDUDNO, Wales
30 November NOTTINGHAM Royal Centre

1 December SOUTHAMPTON, Guild Hall
2 December NORWICH UEA
3 December LEEDS Academy
5 December EDINBURGH Picturehouse
 

Joe Bonamassa website