Blues Brothers
Epiphone is knocking it out of the park at the moment. We adored the Coronet, Crestwood and Wilshire trio featured back in issue 468, and this duet looks equally set to stun. On offer is a recreation of Joe Bonamassa’s legendary ‘Lazarus’ Les Paul, an instrument he resurrected from a dilapidated wreck into a delicious original-looking ’59 Les Paul. This sits alongside a jet black semi-solid ES-355-style Lucille model as played by perhaps the greatest electric blues guitarist of all.
Bonamassa ‘Lazarus’
The story of how Joe Bonamassa acquired his ’59 Les Paul known as ‘Lazarus’ has been so widely told that we won’t go into it in micro detail here. The short version is that a guitar dealer friend brought Joe a tatty Les Paul that had been poorly overpainted in red, and
