Joe Bonamassa has looked back on the time he shared the stage with one of his blues guitar heroes, Albert Collins. Just a year later, he was trading licks with Albert Collins on stage. For two years on the trot, the young blues starlet was invited to play at the New York Blues Festival in Hog Rose. Latest Videos From Guitar World Watch full video here:“They convinced Albert Collins to let me sit in,” Bonamassa recalls on the No Cover Charge podcast. “I’m this little kid in a cowboy hat; it was his way of saying, ‘Welcome to the big leagues, kid.