Joe Bonamassa recently put Rory Gallagher’s 1959 Esquire through its paces and paid tribute to the late blues guitar icon, calling Gallagher a “working class hero” who whose global appeal was in part down to his authenticity.
Gallagher, said Bonamassa, looked though he had just clocked off his shift before stepping up onstage. In an interview for Guitarist magazine’s YouTube channel, in which he demoes Gallagher’s 1959 Tele-modded Fender Esquire, Bonamassa explained why Gallagher in particular was a hero to him as a kid growing up in a blue-collar enclave of Long Island.
