TALES FROM NERDVILLE by Joe Bonamassa
GREEN LIGHT
Way back in 2003, Joe Bonamassa recorded a collection of some of his favorite blues classics, such as B.B. King’s “You Up- set Me Baby,” Freddie King’s “Pack It Up” and Muddy Waters’ “Walkin’ Blues,” and released the album Blues Deluxe, which went on to become one of his most well-known recordings. Joe recently got to work on recording its followup, aptly titled, Blues Deluxe Vol. 2, on which he covers another handful of some of his all-time favorite blues songs.
GREEN LIGHT
Way back in 2003, Joe Bonamassa recorded a collection of some of his favorite blues classics, such as B.B. King’s “You Up- set Me Baby,” Freddie King’s “Pack It Up” and Muddy Waters’ “Walkin’ Blues,” and released the album Blues Deluxe, which went on to become one of his most well-known recordings. Joe recently got to work on recording its followup, aptly titled, Blues Deluxe Vol. 2, on which he covers another handful of some of his all-time favorite blues songs.
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00:00Hey there guys, Joe Bonamassa, and one of the songs on Blues Luxe Vol. 2 is 24 Hour Blues
00:15by the late great Bobby Blubland. Always one of my favorite singers, band leaders,
00:20arrangers, songwriters, and I actually rolled with B.B. King back in the day,
00:27and B.B. encouraged him to be a solo artist. Some of those records that they did,
00:31Let the Good Times Roll, and all those sides that they cut, especially live,
00:36they were friends, and what a time to be alive. This is why I need a time machine,
00:42so I can go back and see those concerts. So on this 24 Hour Blues thing, it was actually Larry
00:48Carlton playing guitar on it, and playing brilliantly, and it was an all-star band based
00:54in the West Coast, and this song is really cool. So the groove is like this, and it's a minor blues,
00:59you know, so it's... You know, pretty standard. And then, you know...
01:11So my approach to playing minor blues, I really like to explore the lower strings. I think it's more motive,
01:33and, you know, you like get stuff... So you can explore those kind of, like, lower bends.
02:01And I like all that kind of stuff where you do a half-step bend.
02:29So that was the approach I took on the solo. And there's one riff that I did in the solo,
02:45when you finally hear this, that I'm not going to try to recreate now, because I wouldn't be able to
02:50recreate it if my life depended on it. And it was just one of those stream of consciousness things,
02:56where, you know, I just kept going for this thing. And I'll probably screw it up now, you know...
03:00It was something like that. And it was just one of those things you just go for it when you feel it.
03:16And luckily, I stuck the landing. It was like my one big Olympic moment.
03:20You know, it was the gold medal winner. Today was... We weren't even on the podium.
03:26You know, we had