BEST OF JOE BONAMASSA. GUITAR TABLATURE
ARTIST APPROVED
THIS BOOK WAS APPROVED BY JOE BONAMASSA IN PERSON
Best of Joe Bonamassa
Series: Play It Like It Is
Publisher: Cherry Lane Music
Format: Softcover - TAB
Artist: Joe Bonamassa
11 artist-approved note-for-note guitar transcriptions from this guitar mastermind, complete with an interview and photos. Includes: Blues Deluxe • Miss You, Hate You • New Day Yesterday • Pain and Sorrow • The River • So, It's like That • Woke up Dreaming • and more.
Inventory #HL 02500921
ISBN: 9781575608945
UPC: 884088089481
Width: 9.0"
Length: 12.0"
116 pages
Blues Deluxe - WORDS AND MUSIC BY: JEFFREY ROD - 1967
Faux Mantini - WORDS AND MUSIC BY: JOE BONAMASSA - 2004
Had To Cry Today - WORDS AND MUSIC BY: STEVE WONWOOD - 1969
If Heartaches Were Nickels - WORDS AND MUSIC BY: WARREN HAYNES - 1995
Miss You, Hate You - WORDS AND MUSIC BY: JOE BONAMASSA, RICHARD FELDMAN - 2000
My Mistake - WORDS AND MUSIC BY: JOE BONAMASSA, MARK LIZOTTE - 2002
New Day Yesterday - WORDS AND MUSIC BY: IAN ANDERSON - 1970
Revenge Of The 10 Gallon Hat - WORDS AND MUSIC BY: JOE BONAMASSA - 2004
The River - WORDS AND MUSIC BY: JOE BONAMASSA, ROBERT HELD - 2004
So, It's Like That - WORDS: MICHAEL HIMELSTEIN - MUSIC BY: JOE BONAMASSA - 2004
Woke Up Dreaming - WORDS AND MUSIC BY: JOE BONAMASSA, WILL JENNINGS - 2003
116 pages.
... emulating some of my favorite singers-Paul Rodgers,
Gregg Allman, Rod Stewart. Sometimes it was
frustrating. I'd been playing guitar for so long, and
had gotten control over that, but this was uncharted
territory. Ultimately, it's allowed me a freedom as an
artist I hadn't felt before."
Joe's muscular fusion of righteous playing
and keenly etched vocals has never been more
seamless than on his latest solo album, You & Me.
Produced by South African-born studio ace Kevin
Shirley-whose credits include Led Zeppelin, the
Black Crowes, Aerosmith, and Joe Satriani-the
disc potently blends a "big rock sound," intense British
blues (about which Joe's especially passionate),
and gritty Delta roots. It's packed with standouts,
including an interpretation of Charley Patton's "High
Water Everywhere" (a tribute to New Orleans), "So
Many Roads" (a blues classic made famous by Otis
Rush), and "Tea for One," a Zeppelin gem embellished
with a full orchestra-and Jason Bonham
on drums. Bonamassa, who's been getting deeper
into songwriting, also cites the originals "Bridge to
Better Days" and the Ray Charles-inflected "Asking
Around for You" as favorites.
You & Me is mature work that continues to
unspool the artistic thread that began with Bonamassa's
solo debut, 2000's Top 10 Blues disc A New Day
Yesterday, named for the 1969 Jethro Tull classic
that Joe makes his own with (as allmusic.com calls
it) "a jaw-dropping performance." Produced by the
legendary Tom Dowd-whose career included work
with Aretha Franklin, Ornette Coleman, Eric Clapton
Ray Charles, John Coltrane, Rod Stewart, and
scores of others-the album features guest shots
by Gregg Allman, Rick Derringer, and Leslie West,
among other greats. The powerhouse original song
“miss You, Hate You" remains a cornerstone of Joe's
repertoire, as does the slide guitar showcase "Cradle
rock." In 2002 Bonamassa released So, It's Like
that, a brew of dead-on blues and classic pop-rock
production featuring all originals, including the tour
de force "Pain and Sorrow." The album was his first to
hitr 1 on Billboards Blues chart.
In 2003-designated "Year of the Blues" by
congress-Bonamassa returned with his heartfelt
tribute to the genre, Blues Deluxe, packed with nine
classics and three originals. In the liner notes, Harrris
Cohen observes that Joe "never loses touch with
the raw emotion that makes the blues what it is."
Reviewing Blues Deluxe, former Creem editor Jaan
Uhelszki added, "New York guitar phenom walks tall
in the blues tradition ... jettisoning fiery riffs inspired
by John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Elmore James, and
Albert Collins into the future with furious playing, a
hard-rock sensibility, and a grizzled voice that owes
a debt to Gregg Allman. Equally inspired by the
Delta blues and the mid-'60s British blues boom,
the young firebrand ... is able to fuse those two
schools together, creating edgy blues-rock." Bonamassa
further honed that fusion on 2004's Had to
Cry Today, another sweat-soaked mix of innovative
and classic sounds made electrifying through his
gale force playing.
Bonamassa is also deeply committed to Blues
in the Schools, developed by the Memphis-based
Blues Foundation to educate students about the
legacy of the blues and to promote and preserve its
heritage. Joe has helped bring the program into over
100 schools across the country, and response has
prompted the Foundation to indefinitely extend it. "I
love the way the kids' eyes light up," says Joe. "We introduce
them to Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, and
other legends. I explain this amazing musical family
tree to them, and talk about how almost every artist
today can be traced back to the origins of blues and
jazz." In 2005 Bonamassa became the youngest-ever
member of the Blues Foundations' 25-person Board
of Directors. "When they told me my name was in
the hat for it," he remembers, "I had that 'it's nice just
to be nominated' feeling. Then I was on a plane to
Memphis to actually become a part of it, and it was
an incredible honor."
Currently, when not performing shows as one of
the hardest-working artists on the road today, Bonamassa
is writing material for an acoustic album he's
planning to release in 2007. "I'm known as an electric
guitar player," he says, "but a big part of my music
started on the acoustic end, and I want to also show
that side of me." Born on May 8, 1977 (the day that
would have been blues icon Robert Johnson's 66th
birthday), Joe lives in Los Angeles with his evergrowing
collection of vintage and custom-made guitars
(now reaching the 200 mark). "I still feel like same
four-year-old who just got his first guitar for Christmas,"
says Joe-with a passion that's heard in every
note he plays.
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