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Joe Bonamassa pays tribute to Eric Clapton’s Stratocaster years
By Joe Bonamassa published
The blues guitar superstar and a vintage Strat from his Nerdville collection share a lesson that will make your Strat sing whether it’s a Custom Shop or a Squier

Why Joe Bonamassa has started playing Dumbles again – years after he sold his original collection
By Matt Owen published
Bonamassa has begun buying Dumbles after he sold his first three examples back in 2016 – and recently purchased Lowell George's mythical Overdrive Special Reverb

Joe Bonamassa fits a budget Squier Tele with his new Seymour Duncan 1950 Broadcaster pickups – and tests it against the vintage Fender original
By Janelle Borg published
The new signature pickups are modeled after Joe Bonamassa's Broadcaster – the very rare Tele predecessor, of which only 250 were made

Joe Bonamassa's 1958 “Amos” Flying V was owned by Norm Harris and featured in Spinal Tap – now it's been recreated by Gibson's Murphy Lab
By Jackson Maxwell published
A year and a half in the making, the Collector's Edition “Amos” is limited to just 50 examples, and replicates in molecular detail all of the storied original guitar's quirks

Joe Bonamassa reveals how a cheap knockoff Les Paul kickstarted his partnership with Epiphone
By Phil Weller published
Bonamassa has been working with Epiphone for over a decade – and it all started after he saw a budget LP in a UK music store

Joe Bonamassa throws his support behind the movement to keep Rory Gallagher's famous Strat in Ireland
By Janelle Borg published
Bonamassa was previously rumored to be one of the big-name guitar collectors interested in bidding on Gallagher's 1961 Strat

Joe Bonamassa’s 12th Epiphone signature guitar is his first with P-90s – and features one of the rarest Les Paul finishes ever made
By Matt Owen published
Only three Copper Iridescent 1955 Les Paul Standards are currently accounted for – and Bonamassa owns two of them. Now, the quirky single-cut has been revived

How Glenn Hughes brought his low-end expertise into the spotlight with Joe Bonamassa and Black Country Communion
By Brian Fox published
The ageless rock veteran with Deep Purple and Black Sabbath recorded his most bass-intensive disc alongside guitarist Joe Bonamassa

“He taught me that it was OK to play the music you wanted to play”: Why John Mayall was the godfather of British blues guitar
By Glenn Kimpton published
Best known for his Bluesbreakers band, which launched the careers of Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor, Mayall was a gifted pianist, guitarist and harmonica player
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