On August 31, 2014, Joe Bonamassa performed a one time only concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater celebrating the music of blues legends Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. It has been filmed for PBS and Palladia and is now available in either DVD or Blue-Ray.
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During this concert, there’s a strong feeling that blues history is being written in front of our eyes. Once a young hotshot and poster boy for the genre’s resurgence, Bonamassa has ascended to a higher level. With such an authentic command of his craft, he can now be mentioned in the same breath as the legends he’s honouring here […]
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As usual with Joe’s work the recording of the concert is pin-sharp and bares repeated plays; which is unusual for me and a Live Album; and the video has just the right amount of cutaways in the edit to keep even those with a short attention span (me!) happy across the two and a half hours. […]
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Shorn of the Led Zeppelin-esque fire that informs some aspects of his work (until the end at least), Joe delivers the two covers sets in his own inimitable style. With an amazing band in tow he turns Red Rocks into a party and you can see the crowd are in heaven from the first note of ‘tiger in your tank’ to the last ringing chord of ‘the ballad of John Henry’. […]
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