New Tab Book Out

I got my copy in the mail this afternoon, perfect timing since I came home for the night. The cover is classy, a picture of the album cover and below it says "Includes Bonus Song Pain and Sorrow"

Here's what the inside says:

"   Joe Bonamassa was born May 8, 1977. If that seems like a trivial way to introduce his first full-blooded blues album, consider that, by many historical estimates, that day would have been Robert Johnson's 66th birthday. That's more than a coincidence, as one listen to Blues Deluxe demonstrates. Though only in his mid-20s, Joe's fluid, passionate, jaw-dropping guitar belies an innate sense of the blues greater than his years. Indeed, before Joe could vote, drive a car, or even attend junior high, he was a blues guitarist of such talent and potential that he caught the attention of B.B. King. As a teenager, he shared staged with King, Albert Collins, John Lee Hooker, and other patriarchs of the electric guitar. It's beyond question there's an old bluesman's soul in Joe Bonamassa.
   Joe's previous two albums, the critically praised, classic-rock influenced A New Day Yesterday and So, It's Like That (a #1 Billboard blues album), focused on his burgeoning ability to craft and sing concise rock anthems. Nevertheless, Joe's blues spirit shone through each. At his incendiary live performances, fans hung on every note of his acrobatic, blood-pumping solos, often expressing their desire to see Joe delve deeper into his Delta roots.
   Returning home from nearly two years of non-stop touring, Bonamassa hit the studio to "blow off some steam" and flex his blues muscles...just to see where it led. The results of the sessions that followed floored everyone who heard them. Paying tribute to mentors like King, Collins, and Hooker, as well as blues legends like Buddy Guy, Elmore James, T-Bone Walker, Freddie King, Robert Johnson, and British Invasion blues/rock deity Jeff Beck, Bonamassa takes the styles of his predecessors and shows just how much he's learned--and just how much further he can take it.
   Blues Deluxe marks Joe's emergence as one of the greatest roots musicians on the road today. The blues has a long and vibrant history with a mythology and a cast of characters of its own. With this album, Joe Bonamassa proves himself the latest legend-in-waiting on that continuum.
   His soulful vocals complement the sweat-soaked passion of his guitar, an instrument he plays with equal eloquence on quick-finger shuffles and tension-building wailers. Echoes of B.B. King, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and others are there, but Joe's forward-looking style takes unexpected turns into new scales, new riffs, new mind-blowing, finger-cramping pyrotechnics. And while his musicianship is impeccable, he never loses touch with the raw emotion that makes the blues what it is.
   The United States Congress declared 2003 as the Year of the Blues, celebrating the 100th anniversary of W.C. Handy's inspiration to bring this vital music to mainstream America. This album is Joe Bonamassa's stellar contribution to the celebration, a party he's been throwing for himself and his fans since he was 12 years old.
   Look out, because the Year of the Blues is the Deluxe treatment.
   ---Harris Cohen, 2003

   It's now 2009 and Joe Bonamassa has released nine albums, the latest being The Ballad of John Henry. After the release of the Best of Joe Bonamassa songbook, we heard from Joe's fans. You wanted matching books. We started with Blues Deluxe because it's been a consistent fan favorite over the years. We also heard from you because of a misprint that left many expecting "Pain and Sorrow" to appear in the first book. We rectify that situation here and include it as a bonus in Blues Deluxe.
   Enjoy.
   ---John Stix, 2009."