Joe Bonamassa plays Baloise Session

A Blues is a Blues is a Blues, twelve bars, three chords – music could hardly be simpler than that! Yet, as we know, the simplest things can often be the hardest; it's the nuances that make all the difference to quality. No-one can teach Joe Bonamassa anything about that; he practically grew up on the blues, and his voice and guitar playing are shaped by the fathers of modern blues, the three Kings - Freddie, Albert and B.B. – and by the Brits Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. But the 49-year-old has long since found his own sound, having worked long and hard to achieve it. Because everything about Joe Bonamassa is on a massive scale: his guitar collection (reportedly over 250 instruments), the number of his releases (around 15 studio albums and just as many live albums, plus video albums, music videos, etc.) and, last but not least, the length of his career to date: His father, a guitar dealer, gave him his first child’s guitar, and at the age of twelve he stood on the stage alongside B. B. King. The rest, as they say, is history.