![]() ![]() “I always knew that the best songs I’d come up with would be the ones that I wrote, but I’m not a very prolific writer,” he says. Given his slow emergence as a fully edged songwriter, however, it’d be fair to assume he hasn’t always felt confident in his own creative capacity. Who knows?”īonamassa started releasing albums back in the year 2000, and they’ve come at an impressively frequent rate ever since – approximately one every 15 months. One of these days we’ll revisit them in a different way and maybe do a best of show. We’ve played those to death and it’s time to move on. I don’t need to play Dust Bowl, I don’t need to be play Driving Towards the Daylight. The material has been strong and it’s allowed us to retire so much stuff from the old ones. “I’ve been very happy with the results so far. It was like, ‘I’ll put out less albums and let me write them all and see what happens.’ That was like, ‘OK that’s where we were in 2013, thanks very much.’ Then between Different Shades of Blue and Blues of Desperation that was the beginning of a new book. “We did a whole career retrospective, we did four different venues in London and we did everything from the very beginning of my career to the very end and that was pretty much the closing of a book. “After we did the Albert Hall last time, 2013, that was the end of an era,” he says. Much like 2014’s Different Shades of Blue, original material dominates the track listing – something that wasn’t the case on the majority of Bonamassa’s earlier efforts. March saw the release of Blues of Desperation, Bonamassa’s 12th solo LP. I’ve really been super lucky that my fans have allowed me to do all of this.”īonamassa’s certainly had a blessed run, but it couldn’t have happened if he hadn’t managed to cultivate unique appeal with his take on classic blues rock. Then we’re doing the Opera House, that’s pretty much it for me,” Bonamassa says. “I did Carnegie Hall this year, which was a bucket-list gig. This time around he’ll be checking into a number of the nation’s most dazzling theatre venues including the Sydney Opera House, which he views as a crowning achievement. Joe Bonamassa is heading back our way this month, his second visit for 2016 following a Bluesfest exclusive performance in March. Joe Bonamassa: Bringing The Blues Authored 7 September by Augustus Welby ![]()
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