Joe Bonamassa recorded a follow-up to his album Blues Deluxe, titled Blues Deluxe, Vol. 2, for which he covered a handful of his favorite blues classics. One of the songs featured on Vol. 2 is Fleetwood Mac’s “Lazy Poker Blues” with original incarnation of the band that included the great British blues guitarist Peter Green.
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00:00Hey, this is Joe Bonamassa, and we're talking about my album Blues Deluxe Volume 2.
00:14One of the songs that we cut was Fleetwood Mac's Lazy Poker Blues, and I'm a big fan
00:21of all things Peter Green, especially that kind of nonchalant, just like, we're just
00:27going to wing it and see how it goes, you know.
00:29And it kind of went like this.
00:44This is kind of a standard blues riff, but of course you have to put in the...
01:14You know, there's so many different variations you can do to it, but one of the things that
01:28the British guys always used to do, to go from the 1 to the 4, they would kind of stay
01:32up here on the 12th fret, and they would hit that note, like the major 3rd, or they would
01:40just go to the tonic of the 4, which in this case is A, then they would start the next
01:44set of riffs, you know.
02:00You know, if you took one of these sunburst Les Pauls, plugged it into an early Marshall,
02:04and set it for stun, you'll be well happy with the results.
02:09In this case, it's a super, and it sounds great.