whiskey lullaby

 

This is a sad country song which judging from my ipod I seem to prefer.

Bonamassa was born and raised in New Hartford, New York. His parents owned and ran a guitar shop. He is a fourth-generation musician; with a great-grandfather and grandfather who both played trumpet, and a father who plays guitar, Bonamassa credits his parents with fostering an appreciation of music in his life as early as he can remember. When he was a young child, he would listen to his parents' large record collection. He recalls at age 7, sitting with his parents on Saturdays and listening to Guitar Slim, Bonnie Raitt, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Eric Clapton, and Jethro Tull. Thus, he sees his music as an amalgam of all the various rock and blues he heard as a child.^[8]

He received his first guitar from his father at the age of 4, and by age 7 he was playing Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix tunes note for note. At the age of 11, during a short period of being mentored by Danny Gatton, he learned such styles as country and jazz as well as polka. During this time with Gatton, Bonamassa sat in with Gatton's band whenever they played in New York. He first opened for B. B. King at 12 years of age. At 14, he was invited to attend a Fender guitar event; during that trip to the West Coast he met Berry Oakley, Jr., with whom he founded the group Bloodline, along with Miles Davis' son Erin and Robby Krieger's son Waylon. They released one album which produced two chart singles — "Stone Cold Hearted", and "Dixie Peach." He has since played with Buddy Guy, Foreigner, Robert Cray, Stephen Stills, Joe Cocker, Gregg Allman, Steve Winwood, Paul Jones, Steve Lukather, Ted Nugent, Warren Haynes, Eric Clapton, Derek Trucks, Eric Johnson, and Jack Bruce.

Joe Bonamassa - Sloe gin @ Royal Albert Hall

This is my midnight melody. When I can’t sleep this is the song that I put on repeat on my IPod to calm my thoughts. The instrumentals are what I love about the song. You could take out all the vocals and still know exactly what the song is trying to say.

Etta James - Trust In Me

 Etta James is an icon with a natural powerful voice. She could express her emotions threw her voice in a way that most singers don’t have the ability to do. Artist these days are so auto corrected and toned that it takes away from the natural beauty of the voice. Just listening to this song brings forth goose bumps. You can hear the how powerfully compelling her sing was and the anger as well as the desperation in her pitch.