On June 27, 2018, Bonamassa premiered at the Grand Ole Opry.
In April 2018, Bonamassa's signature amplifier, the ‘59 Twin-Amp JB Edition, was released by Fender. In May 2015, Bonamassa won a Blues Music Award in the Instrumentalist – Guitar category. The album was recorded at a music studio in the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas. Bonamassa sought to create serious blues rock in the project, instead of three-minute radio hits. Bonamassa wrote the album in Nashville with three songwriters: Jonathan Cain of Journey, James House (known for his work with Diamond Rio), Dwight Yoakam, Martina McBride and Jerry Flowers (who has written for Keith Urban). Bonamassa performing at Radio City Music Hall in 2015īonamassa's album Different Shades of Blue is his first solo studio album since So, It's Like That to showcase only original songs (with the exception of a brief instrumental Jimi Hendrix cover). The shows were recorded for a DVD release, and the set of DVDs was released in October 2013 as "Tour de Force". Over the summer of 2013, Bonamassa performed four shows in London featuring three different bands (and a horn section at one show), covering four different sides of his music. The concluding, three-night stand of Bonamassa's spring 2013 tour, occurred at the famous Beacon Theatre in New York City. The acoustic ensemble that performed the show was assembled with the help of Bonamassa's longtime producer, Kevin Shirley. This concert marked the first time Bonamassa played a wholly acoustic show. The live acoustic album, An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House, was released as a CD/DVD/Blu-ray set on March 26, 2013.
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The show featured one of Bonamassa's musical heroes, Paul Rodgers (formerly of the bands Free and Bad Company), as a guest. Bonamassa's live album, Beacon Theatre: Live from New York, was released in 2012. In 2009, Bonamassa fulfilled one of his childhood dreams by playing at the Royal Albert Hall in London, where Eric Clapton played a duet with him. 1 on the Billboard Blues charts, and all five of his solo studio albums made the Top 10. īetween 20, Bonamassa had three studio albums hit No.
The album features a guest appearance by Gregg Allman on the song "If Heartaches Were Nickels", and was produced by Tom Dowd. It features original tunes and covers of artists such as: Rory Gallagher, Jethro Tull and Warren Haynes. Career 2000–2019 īonamassa's debut studio album, A New Day Yesterday, was released in 2000. Although Bloodline did not become a famous act, it attracted some attention to Bonamassa's guitar chops. Before he reached eighteen years old, Bonamassa was playing in a band called Bloodline with the sons of Miles Davis, Robby Krieger and Berry Oakley. King at approximately twenty shows in 1989. Bonamassa played a crimson 1972 Fender Stratocaster he called "Rosie", given to him by his father. When he was twelve years old, he had his own band called Smokin' Joe Bonamassa, which gigged around western New York and Pennsylvania, including cities such as Scranton and Buffalo, only on weekends since he had school on weekdays. At eleven years old, Bonamassa was mentored and trained by American guitar legend Danny Gatton. He started playing guitar at age four, encouraged by his father, who was an avid music fan and exposed him to British blues rock records by Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, greatly inspiring him.
Early life īonamassa was born in New Hartford, New York, and grew up in Utica, New York. Bonamassa produces and collaborates on many of the projects. Current artists include Dion DiMucci, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Joanna Connor, Larry McCray and others. In 2020, Bonamassa created Keeping the Blues Alive Records, an independent record label that promotes and supports the talent of blues musicians.
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