Absolutely stunning performance by Joe Bonamassa of the Tim Curry (1978) song Sloe Gin (albeit with some cleaned up lyrics).

By the way – how did Bowie miss this one…tell me this wouldn’t have been an awesome David Bowie + Joe Bonamassa collaboration?

Anyway – Joe has shown many times before he can master slow blues…what I really like about this version is that he hangs onto the notes as he sometimes has a tendency to blast his wicked speed running through the scales. He still manages to show his flash, but also holds back and really hangs on to the notes as only true bluesmen will do.

Weird background to this song too…Tim Curry is perhaps better known as an actor, but had this song written and had a version that may surprise you under Joe’s version (for those of you who like to go back into the wayback machine)

By the way – the lineup for Red Rocks was terrific including David Letterman’s House Band drummer Anton Fig and Stevie Ray Vaughan Double Trouble keyboard aficionado Reese Wynans (now a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as part of Double Trouble)

And Now The Tim Curry version