Joe Bonamassa’s Tele Vision
“When you ask your friends if they want to make an instrumental guitar album for fun in Nashville, everybody says, ‘Yeah, that sounds like a blast’ — AKA easy to buy. Now try and sell a guitar instrumental record in 2020! Ah, yeah. Hard to sell!”
WHEN JOE BONAMASSA announced he was releasing an instrumental album, it’s safe to say most fans assumed it’d be a blues outing of some sort. After all, Bonamassa was named “Best Blues Guitarist” in a recent Guitar World readers’ poll [November 2019]. However, when Bonamassa and his crew — including drummer Anton Fig, bassist Michael Rhoads, keyboardist Reese Wynans and guitarist John Jorgenson — formed the Sleep Eazys, they decided to go in a very different direction. Taking inspiration from Bonamassa’s childhood mentor — the late Danny Gatton — the band opted to make a proper “Telecaster album.” Below, Bonamassa talks Easy to Buy, Hard to Sell.
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