“My father had a great record collection," says Joe Bonamassa. "He was a big fan of John Mayall, The Jeff Beck Group, Clapton, Led Zeppelin… It’s an interesting full circle that the British Blues grabbed me before the American stuff. Ultimately, the American stuff kinda took shape and I enjoyed going back and discovering Robert Johnson, but through the gateway of Eric Clapton. Discovering Willie Dixon through the gateway of Jimmy Page, and so on and so forth.

“I love those versions of tunes, like I Ain’t Superstitious that The Jeff Beck Group did. Such swagger! They were making early hard rock records but they were intrinsically blues songs.”

Interviewed in summer 2016 for Guitarist.

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