2015

50 år i bluesens tjänst, och inget tecken av avmattning här inte! Hans nutida band hyser måhända inte Peter Green eller Eric Clapton, men Rocky Athas, Greg Rzab och Jay Davenport är inte å leka me' de heller. En makalös platta!

Johnson Robert: Crossroad blues (Rem) [Digipack / 2 CD]

This 2-CD features Joe Bonamassas incredible concert from August 31, 2014 which took place at the famous and drop-dead gorgeous Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The show is a spectacular celebration of the music of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, featuring many of the two blues legends' greatest songs and a few Bonamassa classics. <br/><br/>"They always try to write off the blues; well we've proven tonight that at least 9,000 people like the blues," said celebrated blues rock master Joe Bonamassa. The exclusive concert experience tributing blues legends Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf was filmed at Red Rocks Amphitheater over Labor Day weekend in 2014. Carved into the bedrock of Colorado's majestic Rocky Mountains, the famed amphitheater sets the stage for Bonamassa's fiery delivery of over 2.5 hours of bluesy guitar wailing and horn-filled tunes honoring the two Blues greats. <br/><br/>Playing to a sold-out crowd of 9,000 fans, this marks the biggest show of Bonamassa's career, a major milestone for the bluesman.

Digipack.

Bonamassa Joe: Radio City Music Hall 2015 [CD + Blu-ray]

Digipack.<br/><br/>LINE UP<br/>Mighty Sam McClain / vocals<br/>Knut Reiersrud / guitar, harmonica, piano (02 & 08) & vocals (05)<br/>Bjørn Holm / guitar<br/>David Wallumrød / Hammond organ, Wurlitzer, piano & Prophet 5<br/>Nikolai Hængsle Eilertsen / bass<br/>Andreas Bye / drums<br/>Håkon Kornstad / saxes & flute<br/>Martin Horntveth / timpani & tubular bells + strings<br/><br/>Even Norwegians get the blues. On "Tears Of The World," guitarist Knut Reiersrud and his band find themselves in the company of the 72-year old vocalist Mighty Sam McClain, originally from Louisiana. Together, they have dedicated themselves to the music of the deep south and have given impressive proof that, when it comes to playing hard-driven R&B, soul or blues, it's not where you come from that's important.In the context of the regular flow of new releases on the ACT label, "Tears Of The World" is patently a stylistic outlier; and yet this detour is not all that surprising, given label founder Siggi Loch's passion for the blues. In Loch's autobiography he describes the experience of what he remembers as the "wildest night" of his life - until then, at least. It was in 1962, and he was at one of the first American Folk Blues Fest.

Bonamassa Joe: Radio City Music Hall 2015 [CD + Blu-ray]