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 actually rolled with B.B. King back in the day, and B.B. encouraged
00:28him to be a solo artist. Some of those records that they did, Let the Good Times Roll, and
00:34all those sides that they cut, especially live, they were friends, and what a time to
00:40be alive. This is why I need a time machine, so I can go back and see those concerts.
00:45So on this 24 Hour Blues thing, it was actually Larry Carlton playing guitar on it, and playing
00:51brilliantly. And it was an all-star band based in the West Coast, and this song is really
00:56cool. So the groove is like this, and it's a minor blues, you know, so it's, you know, pretty
01:11standard, and then, you know. So my approach to playing minor blues, I like to, I really
01:32like to explore the lower strings. I think it's more motive, and, you know, you like get stuff
01:39different. So you can explore those kind of, like, lower bands.
02:09And I like all that kind of stuff where you do a half-step bend.
02:24So 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
02:50be able to recreate it if my life depended on it. And it was just one of those stream
02:55of consciousness things where, you know, I just kept going for this thing, and I'll probably
02:59screw it up now, you know.
03:11It was something like that. And it was just one of those things you just go for it when
03:14you feel it. And luckily, I stuck the landing. It was like my one big Olympic moment, you
03:20know. It was the gold medal winner. Today was, we weren't even on the podium.