Likewise. I think he’s a cock and I’ve never rated that white blues stuff anyway. I still don’t. I view blues, like jazz, as predominantly being protest music. A music with a distinct cultural context, not just a style. Over the decades jazz has morphed effortlessly into soul, funk, rap and is now being reborn in That London and elsewhere fully retaining its political/protest context being aligned with #BLM etc. I just don’t see the point of Clapton, SRV, Mayer, Bonamassa etc. I have no idea what they are for or what they add. By saying that the real blues players (JLH, Guy, Waters etc) found enough in these musos to offer friendship and even benefit from the markets they opened. I think Mayer, Bonamassa etc are all thoroughly decent people, they seem very likable in interviews etc, but I can’t imagine wanting to buy their albums unless I had absolutely everything by JLH, Howling Wolf, Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal and the rest of them first.
PS Appropriately dour Canadian guitar tech ‘Dave’s World Of Fun Stuff’ on YouTube rather wonderfully described Bonamassa as “the Justin Beiber of blues” the other day which made me laugh rather a lot!