“A lot of people will know Tim Curry from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and I never thought I’d associate the words 'desperate blues' with Tim Curry. It was actually a Tim Curry song that was written by Bob Ezrin and Michael Kamen, and was on Tim’s album Fearless, in ’79. Kevin called me in 2007 and said he’d got the perfect song for me, a real desperate kind of blues song that he’d remembered from when he’d been in South Africa. “I like this because it is such an odd choice of song. Our strategy now is to keep doing a handful of live shows every quarter as a minimum.” It was one of the greatest shows we’ve ever done, but with no audience there it was like a soundcheck. "We did a live pay-per-view show at the Ryman last fall. Of course, fans will want to see us live, and we really want that interaction. “If we come back in the fall or next spring and we haven’t played for two years, it’s gonna take some time to knock that rust off. “I don’t want us to get too rusty,” he explains. Bonamassa, as ever the consummate professional, underscores the reason why he is trying to keep live events going for his own band. One of the shows, in Austin, Texas, will be livestreamed on pay-per-view. We’re going to do five shows to truncated audiences, working with whatever rules are in place at the venues. “I wonder how easy it will be to get back in gear again. “I have friends in heritage rock acts who haven’t really done anything for a year,” he says.
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