Today in Music: Birthdays for Robert Johnson and Joe Bonamassa – Very interesting?
So how would you like to be a blues artist and share a birthday with the great Robert Johnson? Well if you’d like to know, just ask Joe Bonamassa. Robert Johnson was born on this date in 1911 and 66 years later along come Joe! Hum, Joe was a child prodigy. He caught the ear of the great B.B. King at the age of ten, King said at the time: “This kid’s potential is unbelievable. He hasn’t even begun to scratch the surface. He’s one of a kind.” By the time he was 12, Bonamassa was opening shows for…