We’ll be telling you more about the latest volume of tracks from the Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith-produced tribute to B.B. King here sometime soon but, in the meantime, here’s one that could easily have been a part of the project, even featuring Bonamassa on guitar just like the B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100 tracks. But instead of being a cover of one of B.B.’s songs like on the tribute project, it’s a cover of a track that namechecks the late King of the Blues, performed here by another late, great bluesman, who also did some magnificent work on the keys over the decades with the likes of Taj Mahal and the Phantom Blues Band, Etta James, Bonnie Raitt, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Dave Mason, and others.
The first single from the solo album on which Mike Finnigan was working at the time of his passing (an album about which you’ll also no doubt be hearing plenty more from us, being that Finnigan has long been one of the artists we’ve most appreciated and respected), here’s Finnigan–joined by Bonamassa–with a smashing take on Curtis Salgado’s “20 Years of B.B. King” that finds Finnigan’s much-missed soulful vocals and masterful playing on full display!