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Epiphone Joe Bonamassa 1959 Les Paul Custom: a the dual-pickup Custom was a lesser-spotted model in the Gibson catalogue in the '50s – they didn't make many of them. But Bonamassa presents us with one and this 'Black Beauty' is equipped with a Bigsby.

Epiphone raids Joe Bonamassa’s Nerdville archive for another reproduction of a vintage unicorn

By Jonathan Horsley published

The latest Joe Bonamassa x Epiphone signature model is a replica of his 1959 'Black Beauty' dual-pickup Les Paul Custom, with a Bigsby for wobble, Grover Imperials for that upscale touch...

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The Seymour Duncan Joe Bonamassa Bolin Burst Signature Pickup Set replicates the same humbuckers that are in the blues superstar's 1960 Les Paul Standard once owned by Tommy Bolin.

Seymour Duncan expands Joe Bonamassa range with humbucker set based on pickups from his ‘Bolin Burst’ Les Paul

By Jonathan Horsley published

Like JoBo says, got a cheap Les Paul? Give it a high-end power-up with a pair of replica humbuckers from his iconic Bolin Burst, fresh out the custom shop – and the first 500 sets come signed

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Joe Bonamassa wears a blue suit and plays his P-90 loaded Epiphone signature Les Paul [left] and BB King cups his hand to his ear to ask for some more from his audience at a 1991 show in Chicago.

Joe Bonamassa announces all-star album celebrating life of BB King on the King of the Blues’ 100th birthday

By Jonathan Horsley published

BB King’s Blues Summit 100 is out Feb 6 and features guest spots from Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, George Benson, Eric Gales and more

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Joe Bonamassa plays a Guild DE-500 Duane Eddy signature guitar at a Nashville show celebrating Eddy's life. Bonamassa wears a dark blazer embroidered with bright musical notation.

Joe Bonamassa on how to choose the right amp for a gig

By Jonathan Horsley published

The blues superstar reveals what he looks for when sitting in with a band for the night

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Joe Bonamassa plays a vintage Gibson Les Paul SG equipped with a Maestro Vibrola. He wears a gray patterned suit and sunglasses.

Joe Bonamassa announces new album, Breakthrough – listen to the title-track now

By Jonathan Horsley published

Is this a new direction for Bonamassa or an expansion of his style? Breakthrough drops on 18 July

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Joe Bonamassa [left] and the late Irish blues-rock legend Rory Gallagher. Bonamassa is pictured playing Gallagher's Strat in 2011. Gallagher is playing it in 1975, in an archive live shot criss-crossed with stagelights.

Joe Bonamassa is now the proud owner of the treble booster that blew Brian May’s mind

By Jonathan Horsley published

Gallagher's number one Dallas Rangemaster was up for auction. But the late Irish blues-rock icon's family kept it back and gifted it to Bonamassa

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Joe Bonamassa, Tom Murphy and others examine a fake Les Paul

Joe Bonamassa and Gibson’s Tom Murphy join pro panel for video showing how to spot a fake Les Paul

By Jonathan Horsley published

Robert Baker puts a lot of guitar knowledge in one room to run the rule over a cheap and nasty counterfeit Gibson

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A still of Joe Bonamassa playing his 64 Greenburst Strat as he demos his new signature Seymour Duncan pickup set. Bonamassa wears a ballcap and a black hoodie.

Joe Bonamassa and Seymour Duncan put pre-CBS tones on the menu with “Greenburst” Strat pickup set

By Jonathan Horsley published

The hottest mod of the year? These replicate the same gray-bottomed single-coils in the ’64 Stratocaster that stopped Bonamassa in his tracks at Norman’s Rare Guitars

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Joe Bonamassa wears sunglasses and a blue plaid suit while playing a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard onstage in 2023

“Not a single person paid. No one came in. I think I got a Diet Coke out of it”: Joe Bonamassa dishes the dirt on his worst gig ever

By Daniel Griffiths published

You’d think that Bonamassa live in Memphis would draw quite the crowd… Think again

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Joe Bonamassa [left] plays his Epiphone 1955 Les Paul Standard and wears a bright blue suit and polka-dot; Sammy Hagar [right] wears shades, a black Cabo Wabo T-shirt and plays his red Gibson Explorer with white pickguard.

“The track is a monster!”: Joe Bonamassa and Sammy Hagar have got the Fortune Teller Blues

By Jonathan Horsley published

Bonamassa played the entire track with an Ovation acoustic through an overdriven amp

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