Joe Bonamassa Blues-Rock Titan to Appear At NAMM with Sponsors Gibson, Ernie Ball, Dunlop and a Very Special Announcement with Seymour Duncan
Guitar International Crowns Bonamassa as 2011's Guitarist of the Year
LOS ANGELES,
Jan. 19, 2012 -- Award-winning blues-rock sensation
Joe Bonamassa is driving sales for the guitar industry and keeping the guitar alive. Bonamassa, currently the hottest new Guitar Blues Rock star on the scene, is helping great companies like
Guitar Center,
Gibson,
Epiphone,
Ernie Ball ,
Dunlop,
Clear Sonics and
Klotz Cables , all of whom have signature products with the Guitar phenom; and other companies soon to be announced. Bonamassa's style of guitar has breathed new life and excitement back into the guitar as legions of new fans are becoming familiar again with the great sound of guitar-based rock music. Over the last year, Bonamassa has become the hottest ticket around the world, selling out the greatest concert halls in America and worldwide like the Chicago Theatre, NYC's Beacon Theatre and
Amsterdam's Carre Theatre. Get a free download from the album
Dust Bowl:
http://bitly.com/JBNAMM
Bonamassa will be attending
NAMM this year supporting the companies with whom he works with multiple stops at his sponsors' booths. He will attend the convention on
Saturday, January 21 and will stop by the
Gibson Booth at
1:30pm (
Gibson Booth #303AB) and
2:30pm (
Gibson Custom Booth #C4861) to sign autographs and play a few licks. At
3:00pm , Bonamassa will be at the
Seymour Duncan booth (
#5561 in Hall B) for a very special announcement, and that evening he will be one of many special guests helping to celebrate
Ernie Ball's 50th Anniversary Concert.
In December, Bonamassa collaborated with
Dunlop,
a leading manufacturer of electronic effects, picks, capos, slides, strings and other musical instrument accessories, to release the
Joe Bonamassa Signature Cry Baby.
Bonamassa's popularity has been steadily rising with no end in sight. He
was recently crowned
2011's Guitarist of the Year by
Guitar International for his work on 2011's critically acclaimed solo album
Dust Bowl (J&R Adventures) and
Black Country Communion's second album
2 (J&R Adventures), world tour and DVD
Live Over Europe. He was recently nominated in two categories for the
2012 Blues Music Awards:
Best Blues Rock Album for
Dust Bowl and
Best Contemporary Blues Album for his soul covers album
Don't Explain (J&R Adventures) with female powerhouse
Beth Hart . He was named 2010's #1 Billboard Blues Artist with
Dust Bowl debuting at #1 on the Billboard Blues Chart and #37 on Billboard's Top 200 Chart, making it his highest-selling and chart-ranking U.S. debut to date.
Black Country Communion - with bandmates
Glenn Hughes ,
Jason Bonham and
Derek Sherinian - was named "Best New Band of the Last 10 Years" by VH1 Classic's
That Metal Show.
After the enormous success of his 2009 sold-out concert at
London's
Royal Albert Hall – which included a career-changing duet with
Eric Clapton – and subsequent live DVD release, Bonamassa filmed his two recent sold-out shows (
Nov. 4-5) at NYC's famed Beacon Theatre. Special guests at the shows included
John Hiatt ,
Paul Rodgers and
Beth Hart. The live concert DVD and PBS special capturing the magic of both nights will be released in early 2012.
For more information, full tour schedule and tickets, go to
www.jbonamassa.com .
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