Joe Bonamassa released “Different Shades of Blue” last September and to date it is my favourite Bonamassa album. It features all original tracks and as the title suggests covers all styles of Blues music from the B.B. King style slow ballad “So, What Would I do”, to the Blues Funk “Love Ain’t A Love Song” and the Zeppelin inspired “Oh Beautiful”. Hal Leonard recently released a authentic transcription TAB book which also includes standard music notation and music for the vocal parts too and they were kind enough to send me a copy via Hal Leonard Australia. Each song from the album is accurately transcribed and includes harmony parts and multiple rhythm parts where necessary which makes learning each song easy… well, except for the super fast pentatonic licks, I guess I need to spend a bit more time practicing to get those down!
If you are a fan of Joe Bonamassa and want to learn tracks from his albums I recommend checking out the ‘Guitar Record Versions’ series of TAB books from Hal Leonard, they are excellent. You can find a retailer in Australia to purchase the ‘Different Shades of Blue’ book (or one of his other albums) by using the Hal Leonard Find a Retailer section of their website.