# Anybody listen to Joe Bonamassa? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 13, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-listen-to-joe-bonamassa/546565 "2010-07-13T18:07:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![drumfun101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@drumfun101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drumfun101)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-listen-to-joe-bonamassa/546565/1 "2010-07-13T18:07:28Z")
He’s a blues rocker discovered by BB King… good stuff… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-listen-to-joe-bonamassa/546565/2 "2010-07-13T18:17:06Z")
Welcome to the SDMB, **drumfun101**. I’m moving your thread to Cafe Society, which is where we have discussions of music, the arts, and numerous other creative endeavors. You can read our forum descriptions [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=15), and some rules and guidelines for life here at the Dope in our ATMB (About This Message Board) forum. They’ll help you get oriented and make your time here more pleasant. Again, welcome! **twickster** , MPSIMS (and Cafe Society) moderator ---
**Author:** ![drumfun101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@drumfun101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drumfun101)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-listen-to-joe-bonamassa/546565/3 "2010-07-13T18:20:11Z")
word. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-listen-to-joe-bonamassa/546565/4 "2010-07-13T18:53:20Z")
> [@drumfun101](#): > > word. Well, will WordMan do? 😉 Yeah - a few of us Dopers do. You might do a search within Cafe Society… he is a great guitarist - regularly featured in the guitar mags, so I get exposed to him more than I listen to him. But there is a great bit at the beginning of the documentary \*\*Tom Dowd: The Language of Music \*\*(essential viewing - he was the engineer for Atlantic records, discovered the Allmans and Skynyrd, etc.) where Joe B discusses finding Dowd to produce his (Joe’s) record. And they cut to Joe just smokin’ on a vintage Gibson ES-330 - just amazing… ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-listen-to-joe-bonamassa/546565/5 "2010-07-13T20:20:40Z")
I like him a lot. He’s the rare guitarists that the both the guitar nerds and laymen like myself can enjoy. Plus, his [cover of Sloe Gin](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AvUD114Fts&feature=related)is a revelation. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-listen-to-joe-bonamassa/546565/6 "2010-07-13T21:08:28Z")
This is out of print now, but no reason you shouldn’t get a chance to hear it. This is “Smokin” Joe’s band circa 1994 (when he was still a minor) [Bloodline - Since You’re Gone](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fbfiN94Mbw) And this is a clip from the following year with (mostly) the same band [Bloodline - The Storm](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unrrQcB-jR8) ---
**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-listen-to-joe-bonamassa/546565/7 "2010-07-14T06:08:41Z")
Good stuff! Thank you for starting this thread. I’d like to share a studio version of [“Stop”.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMXXnLSRdBE) ---
**Author:** ![drumfun101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@drumfun101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drumfun101)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-listen-to-joe-bonamassa/546565/8 "2010-07-14T14:35:19Z")
“Stop” is one of my favorites as well. Those clips of the young joe B were awesome, thank you. I also have a link to a [free download](http://www.jbonamassa.com/jbstore/index.php?p=product&id=232&utm_source=J-Tube%2BForums&utm_medium=Forums&utm_campaign=J-Tube%2BForums%2BDownload%2BLink) of Blue and Evil. Just type in “forum” at checkout. Hey Breign, is Joe B singing on that track “Since You’re Gone??” ---
**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-listen-to-joe-bonamassa/546565/9 "2010-07-14T14:42:17Z")
Here is joe at [12 years old](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLB900atJFs) with Danny Gatton. He’s a pretty slick lil booger! ---
**Author:** ![drumfun101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@drumfun101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drumfun101)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-listen-to-joe-bonamassa/546565/10 "2010-07-14T14:51:36Z")
I’ve seen that link before - pretty awesome! He looks exactly the same… lol ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-listen-to-joe-bonamassa/546565/11 "2010-07-14T15:32:41Z")
[Here is a link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxZS4rMdJN0)to a documentary about Joe B on youtube - altogether it is maybe 20 - 30 minutes, but is a great insight to his background as a young phenom… ---
**Author:** ![drumfun101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@drumfun101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drumfun101)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-listen-to-joe-bonamassa/546565/12 "2010-07-15T14:03:01Z")
wow that was an old video lol Len’s mustache/mullet combo is classic haha ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-listen-to-joe-bonamassa/546565/13 "2024-12-07T23:56:31Z")
Still going strong. Here he is with an orchestra. Awesome! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cel23\_4pt3o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cel23_4pt3o)