Forget the rocketing sales and ever-bigger venues. For rock writers, the real joy of Joe Bonamassa and Joanne Shaw Taylor’s respective success stories has been watching these two modern blues figureheads grow as interviewees.
Rewind to the millennium, when Bonamassa arrived with A New Day Yesterday, and the New Yorker was the epitome of the guitar geek caught in the headlights: comfortable enough talking about pickups and string gauges, cagey on anything else. Likewise, while promoting her 2009 debut album White Sugar, Taylor hinted at a snarky Black Country wit, but stopped short of showing her cards or character.
