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After moving back to New York City, Joe Bonamassa spent some lockdown time in Germano Studios in Manhattan\\u2019s NoHo neighborhood, tightly winding the music for his latest album, Time Clocks. His longtime producer Joe Shirley had to work with the powerhouse guitarist remotely, from his home in Australia. Yet the result is as seamlessly Bonamassa as ever, with riveting guitar work that has echoes ranging from Africa to Led Zeppelin. \\u201cMy ADD transcends into my musical life,\\u201d the other JB told longtime Premier Guitar contributor Joe Charupakorn in our December feature. \\u201cIt\\u2019s a very different record for me. It\\u2019s not a blues record, for sure. I just try to make records that don\\u2019t bore me all the way through\\u2014we\\u2019ve got this groove covered, we\\u2019ve got that groove covered, let\\u2019s put a sorbet in, something out of left field.\\u201d

They don\\u2019t serve sorbet at Nashville\\u2019s hallowed Ryman Auditorium music hall\\u2014although I\\u2019m putting that in their suggestion box. But Bonamassa did dish out plenty of guitar flamb\\xe9 at his August 2 headliner there. And melded the music of Time Clocks with a selection of some of his favorite classic and original blues. PG\\u2019s JB\\u2014that\\u2019s me\\u2014connected with Joe onstage before the show, where I also did a Rig Rundown with that other guy with my initials in 2018.

This time, there were some new members of Bonamassa\\u2019s ever-growing-and-shrinking collection of gear\\u2014which he spoke about at length earlier this year with Cory Wong on the rhythm guitar kingpin\\u2019s Wong Notes podcast for PG\\u2014pressed into service, including some recent-arrival Les Pauls, of course, and perhaps the most covetable collection of historic badass amps ever played on the Ryman stage. But rareness, novelty, or familiarity isn\\u2019t what determines which toys come out to play. Bonamassa starts by building a rough set list, and then chooses the right instrument and amps for each song. So, watch, look, and listen!

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