“I’ve always wanted to buy a sunburst Fender Stratocaster from Crowley’s Music Centre in Cork. Today I did. Big thanks to Sheena and all the great folks I met today.”

Joe Bonamassa has repeated history by buying a sunburst Fender Stratocaster from Crowley’s Music Store – the guitar gear retailer that famously sold Rory Gallagher his now-legendary 1961 Strat back in 1963.

Gallagher originally bought his 1961 Sunburst Strat from the same store in Cork, Ireland, for £100 in 1963. At the time, the blues rock ace may have been unaware of the things he would achieve with the instrument, but it quickly became his go-to guitar…