Photo: Karen Rosetsky

May 2010 UK Tour With very special guest Sandi Thom
Ticket Hotline: 0871 230 1101 Book Online: www.seetickets.com

“Right now, there’s no better blues-rock artist than Bonamassa”
- Gibson.com

Joe Bonamassa is hailed as one of the greatest young blues guitarists of his generation. Championed by Eric Clapton, and voted Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the 2009 Classic Rock Magazine Awards.

Joe Bonamassa voted ‘Best Overall Guitarist’, ‘Best Blues Guitarist’ in Guitar Player Magazine’s 2010 Reader’s Choice Awards.

Bonamassa recently released his critically acclaimed eighth new studio album BLACK ROCK which features the legendary B.B. King on the track “Night Life.” BLACK ROCK entered the UK album chart at number 14 and number 1 in the Independent Album chart. Bonamassa also hosts his own weekly UK radio show on Planet Rock. Don’t miss him when he tours the UK during May 2010…

JOE BONAMASSA MAY 2010 UK TOUR DATES

Date: Friday 28th May
Venue: London HMV Hammersmith Apollo
Tickets: £30.00
Venue Box Office: 08448 44 47 48
Website:http://venues.meanfiddler.com/apollo/home
Venue Address: 45 Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9QH

Date: Saturday 29th May
Venue: Rotherham Magna Centre
Tickets: £27.50
Venue Box Office: 0871 230 11 01
Website: http://tinyurl.com/32wgmj2
Venue Address: Sheffield Road, Rotherham, S Yorkshire, S60 1DX

Date: Sunday 30th May
Venue: Bournemouth BIC
Tickets: £27.50
Venue Box Office: 0844 576 3000
Website: www.bic.co.uk
Venue Address: Exeter Road, Bournemouth, BH2 5BH

Date: Monday 31st May
Venue: Birmingham NIA
Tickets: £27.50
Venue Box Office: 0844 338 8000
Website: www.thenia.co.uk
Venue Address: 3 Brunswick Square Birmingham, B1 2HR

Photo: Marty Moffat

Biography

As Joe Bonamassa grows his reputation as one of the world’s greatest guitar players, he is also evolving into a charismatic blues-rock star and singer-songwriter of stylistic depth and emotional resonance. His ability to connect with live concert audiences is transformational, and his new album, Black Rock, brings that energy to his recorded music more powerfully than ever before.

BLACK ROCK is the tenth solo album and eighth studio release of his career - as well as his fifth consecutive with producer Kevin Shirley (Led Zeppelin, Black Crowes, etc.) - the disc adds an enlivening dose of ‘world’ vibes to Bonamassa’s virtuoso mix of ‘60s-era British blues-rock (à la Beck and Clapton) and roots-influenced Delta sounds. The album was recorded at Black Rock Studios in Santorini, Greece.

“With this album, we wanted to explore a ‘world’ feeling, and this was the inspiration behind going to record in Greece and using some of the best Greek musicians to add a little flavor to a couple of the tracks. But it’s by no means a ‘world’ album. We wanted Joe’s usual youthful and energetic tones to play alongside the worldly vibes of the Greek bouzouki and clarino,” said Shirley.

Bonamassa adds, “It was the kind of record Kevin and I wanted to make. We needed to rock again a bit like on my first album. It’s youthful, like going back to your childhood.” Throughout, Bonamassa is again backed by the stellar players Carmine Rojas (bass), Anton Fig, Bogie Bowles (both on drums) and Rick Melick (keyboards).

2009 was a big year for Bonamassa. He was awarded the Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award at the U.K.’s prestigious Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards and Classic Rock magazine has said, “They’re calling him the future of blues, but they’re wrong - Joe Bonamassa is the present; so fresh and of his time that he almost defines it.” He was also named Best Blues Guitarist in Guitar Player Magazine’s 2009 Readers’ Choice Awards for the third consecutive year. Guitar Player writer Matt Blackett has said, “He’s an old soul, and that comes through in his bends, vibrato, singing voice, and note choices, which - which each passing year - get more restrained and refined.”