Joe Bonamassa BEACON THEATRE-LIVE

Personnel: Joe Bonamassa (vocals, guitar); Rick Melick (keyboards); Tal Bergman (percussion).Audio Mixer: Kevin Shirley.Recording information: Beacon Thaetre, New York City (11/05/2011).Photographers: Mark Weiss; Christie Goodwin; David Wexler; Dennis Friel; Kevin Shirley.Joe Bonamassa is a guitar hero and a road dog -- the blues-rock crusher plays up to 200 shows a year, and it's significant that of the 15 albums he released between 2000 and 2012, four of them were live sets. When Bonamassa played the Beacon Theatre in New York City in November 2011, the marquee declared it "the guitar event of the year," and something that important would certainly merit another live album, wouldn't it? Beacon Theatre: Live from New York is a hefty two-disc set that features plenty of Bonamassa's trademark guitar work, at once precise and bombastic and firmly rooted in the traditions of British blues, and for this show he had Paul Rodgers on hand to lend appropriately swaggering lead vocals to a pair