Joe Bonamassa Royal Tea (2- LP, 180g colored Vinyl)

Very British: The new album from blues virtuoso Joe Bonamassa” for 2020
The 43-year-old guitarist from upstate New York was influenced early on by his father's vinyl collection, which included albums by Eric Clapton, Cream, the Jeff Beck Group and John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers. These British blues influences shaped him and made him the musician he is today. “I must have been about 12 years old when I first heard this sound and was immediately captivated by it. I knew immediately that I wanted to be like that,” Joe recalls. ‘This whole London adventure,’ Bonamassa admits, ‘was the fulfillment of a great wish for me.’

The ten songs were written by Joe and some English music greats such as former Whitesnake guitarist Bernie Marsden, ex-Cream lyricist Pete Brown and pianist Jools Holland. “Writing the songs for this album in England was just right,” reflects Bonamassa. “It sounds inherently British. Bernie and I, we finished each other's sentences. We're cut from the same cloth. All you had to do was ask Bernie, 'What would the British do?' And he came up with all these chord changes and I just thought, 'Ah that's the sound'. That's how you get all these typical tunes.”
His long-time producer Kevin Shirley and his musicians Anton Fig (drums), Michael Rhodes (bass) and Reese Wynans (keyboards) came to London for the recordings.

What Joe finally delivered was the album he had dreamed of from the very beginning.