
From the Liner Notes:
…Blues Deluxe marks Joe’s emergence as one of the greatest roots musicians on the road today. The blues have a long and vibrant history with a mythology and a cast of characters all its own. With this album, Joe Bonamassa proves himself the latest legend-in-waiting on that continuum.
His soulful vocals complement the sweat-soaked passion of his guitar, an instrument he plays with equal eloquence on quick finger shuffles and tension-building wailers. Echoes of B.B. king, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and others are there, but Joe’s forward-looking style takes unexpected turns into new scales, new riffs, new mind-blowing, finger-cramping pyrotechnics. And while his musicianship is impeccable, he never loses touch with the raw emotion that makes the blues what it is…
-- Harris Cohen
"Blues Deluxe" originally written by Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart