In advance of upcoming State Theatre show, Joe Bonamassa talks to us about keeping the blues alive
You play Cleveland on the regular. Do you remember your first-ever gig here?
The first gig in the early ’90s was when I was in a band on EMI Records called Bloodline. We had a bit of radio going in Cleveland, and we played the Agora Ballroom. I remember that was one of the first times. I was 14. Then, when I started my solo career, we played the Beachland Tavern and when we sold more tickets than the Tavern could hold, they moved us to the Ballroom, and we played plenty of shows there. We played about a dozen shows there.
I started writing many of them at the end of 2020. I had produced bunch of records in 2020 and wrote songs for other records. I wrote a bunch of Eric Gales’s record, which is up for a Grammy on Sunday, and a bunch of songs for Jimmy Hall. I thought maybe I tapped the well too much. I had to do a record my own. My friend Dean Hall came out, and I just started writing them and wrote them mostly in New York. We just wrote songs for over a week and recorded in New York.
“Curtain Call” is so crazy. What instruments are on that tune? There is so much going on, I couldn’t put it all together. Dude, I wish I knew. That’s our producer. He took did that back to Australia. The record was mixed and mastered there, and there it is.I wrote that song with my friend Charlie Starr from Blackberry Smoke. Charlie came up with the line about the “notches.” I thought that was killer, and we just took it from there.It was challenging.
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