Joe Bonamassa anyone?

I was introduced to his music only last week, and the album you refer to begins with a Rory Gallagher song, followed by a Free song, followed by the Jethro Tull song. He sounds to me like a very enthusiastic fan of his Dad's music collection and ends up sounding remarkably like the Robin Trower band of the 70's; same guitar sound and everything. He's a good guitarist but has obviously learned everything from his heroes, so I don't imagine we'll get anything particularly original out of him, although he's good at what he does. What I would call a good Saturday morning album. An answered prayer to those that mourn the passing of 70's blues rock.
I can never remember his bloody name though!

That's probably a fair summation Rasher.

A Bob Harris listener and fan described him as a distillation of Stevie Ray Vaughan, James Marshall Hendrix, and Rory Gallagher, but like you, I was also reminded of the wonderful guitar sound of Robin Trower.

John.

I've heard him. Puts on a good live show. However, of the crop of SRV pretenders/disciples (in which class I place Kenny Wayne Sheppard, Jonny Lang, Doyle Bramhall III, etc.) he's probably one of my least favorites.

Mato Nanji, though... now there's a young man with some shit.

I saw JB in concert when he opened for Peter Frampton. This was about a year or two ago. JB looks like a young guy who already has a highly developed guitar playing technique.

I think that starting for Peter Frampton showed the issue that stuck out in my mind about JB. JB's guitar skills were superior to Frampton but his song selection and/or song writing skills didn't match his guitar playing. JB's songs didn't really make an impression on me. Frampton on the other hand is a competent, but not highly technical guitar player. Frampton can write memorable songs and also have rock songs combined with slower songs to give variety to his concerts and albums.

If JB could combine some songs to match his guitar playing then he would be on to something. I agree with the comments above that JB sounded like many other 70s rock groups that we've heard before.

Scott

We'll have to call this "Gary Moore Syndrome".

Rasher

I have all JB's albums and have seen him in the UK. He is on tour in UK now, absolutely awesome.

If you get a chance to see him , do it.

Regards

Trevor

Saw JB play at a tiny venue in Tooting Broadway last year (Jack Beard's Blues); basically a room with a small corner stage in a pub - and they rocked! Blues/rock power trio that let rip as if they were putting on a stadium show. Nothing original for sure but strongly reccommend seeing his band if you can. I see that from a promoter's site that he has a couple of gig's coming up very shortly this month in London:

http://www.feenstra.co.uk/

http://www.jbonamassa.com/

Regards,
Mole Man