However, many blues artists are able to make quite the career for themselves, albeit under the radar of the mainstream audience. For example, Joe Bonamassa regularly sells out 1,000 seat theaters. Jonny Lang is actually still doing quite well for himself, although I prefer his earlier, more blues oriented music. That being said, he’s still filling up 2,000 venues, which seems like a pretty good career in my opinion. Many artists, blues or not, would love to be able to sell 1,000-2,000 tickets per show.

I think Gooch fits within that blues-rock middle ground that takes the blues into a more rock and roll direction. At any rate, I’m always happy to see young guitarists rooting themselves in blues music.

only thing I have to say about this performance, is that he never really seemed to establish a theme, or melody line, just alot of riffs, albeit expertly done.