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When the iconic is caught between Time and a rock, the influences of stories and tales are sure to keep all enthralled as the clocks tick ever onward.
When the public talk of Joe Bonamassa, the father of 21st Century Blues is just as likely to be voiced and expressed as a musician of articulate iconography; it is inevitable, and it is in that direct impression that his albums have not only given the Blues its due recognition but impressed upon listener and artist alike of the validity of a genre that was in critical danger of fading from public view.