Joe Bonamassa Vinyl Records
Joe Bonamassa carried the torch for old-fashioned, guitar-driven blues-rock just when its progenitors eased into elder-statesman status. Bonamassa was raised on the likes of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Jeff Beck, honing his skills with the revered Telecaster master Danny Gatton before the young guitarist reached his teens. His prodigious gifts pushed the guitarist onto the national stage while he was still in his adolescence, but Bonamassa truly began to build an audience in the 2000s, particularly after he teamed with producer Kevin Shirley in the latter part of the decade. By the dawn of the 2010s, Bonamassa was an undisputed guitar hero, the most popular blues-based six-string slinger of his generation, a status he achieved through hard work.