There's no way else to say it: The man and his music are explosive. Blues rock phenom Joe Bonamassa treated Portland to an thunderous show on Thursday, blasting through two hours of tunes at the Aladdin Theater. It's no wonder he was picked in 2009, for the third year straight, as the best blues guitarist in Guitar Player Magazine's Readers' Choice awards and won the Breakthrough Artist of the Year award in Britain's Classic Rock Roll of Honour awards. At the Aladdin, he fired off the set with the title track of his latest release, "The Ballad of John Henry" on a double neck guitar...more