♪ Joe Bonamassa was born in New Hartford, New York State. He started playing guitar at age four. His father was an avid music fan and exposed Bonamassa to records by Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. Joe was very inspired by these British blues rock records. When he was 12 years old, he had his own band called Smokin Joe Bonamassa. The band gigged around western New York and Pennsylvania, cities such as Scranton and Buffalo, on weekends since Joe had school on weekdays. The guitar Bonamassa played, which he called Rosie, was a crimson 1972 Fender Stratocaster that Bonamassas father bought him from a store in Utica, New York, called Big Apple Music. Bonamassa was asked to open for B.B. King at approximately twenty shows, which he did. Before he reached 18 years old, Bonamassa was playing in a band called Bloodline with the sons of Miles Davis, Robby Krieger, and Berry Oakley. Although Bloodline did not become a famous act, it attracted some attention to Bonamassas guitar chops. ♫ ~wikipedia
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