Joe Bonamassa
It was guitar fetishists who first propelled Joe Bonamassa to mass notice by posting his fiery, jaw-dropping guitar solos on Youtube, especially one from the title track to his 2007 album Sloe Gin. That song was originally written by Pink Floyd/Alice Copper behind-the-scenes wizards Bob Ezrin and Michael Kamen for Rocky Horror star Tim Curry, whose late-’70s/early-’80s solo albums full of similar New York–style sax-rock remain criminally overlooked and inexplicably out of print. In Bonamassa’s hands, “Sloe Gin” becomes as anthemic as “Comfortably Numb,” so much that most people seem to think he wrote it (after all, who names their album after a Tim Curry cover tune, when Curry himself never had a hit outside the 1979 novelty track “I Do the Rock”?).