Ozzy Osbourne has had a long, rich line of guitarists play in his band, but Joe Bonamassa was left baffled when he was asked to join that lineage in 2005.
The besuited bluesman was four albums deep into his career at that time, aged around 27, having played his first gig, supporting B.B. King, some 15 years before that. He’d been around long enough, it seems, to have caught the vocalist’s eye, who consequently approached him for a cover of Buffalo Springfield’s For What It’s Worth. It was set to feature on the Prince of Darkness’ covers album, Under Cover.
