Joe Bonamassa borrows Rory Gallagher's Stratocaster to play Sloe Gin at the Royal Albert Hall
I couldn't find an article on this, but did find one worth reading on when Joe was first given the chance to play that guitar, a couple years earlier:
https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/interview-joe-bonamassa-on-playing-rory-gallaghers-1961-stratocaster-510425
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Joe can make a guitar do things other guitarists can only dream about.
I never miss a chance to see him when he comes to Rochester or Buffalo. He's a fantastic showman. 
His first show at the Royal Albert Hall was on PBS years ago. I believe this video is from that show.
The dedication it takes to be that good at one's craft is incredible. Of course having talent makes it easier, but this is something Joe has known he was going to do almost his entire life. I never had that in my life, and I wish I would have. But, there was always something else that came along and spirited my interest and will away, and because of that I'll never know what it feels like to be that damned great at what you do.
I have to be content knowing that I'm good at many things, but great at nothing. 
I saw him once when he was a teenager in Rochester, NY. Whenever he plays in Rochester now his family is usually in the audience.
My Dad used to play golf when I was a kid, and there was this old set of hickory shafted clubs in our garage when we moved in there.
My Dad was off playing with his friends on weekends and my 11 year old self would hit old golf balls around the yard with those old clubs. A lot.
He saw me doing it and took me to the local golf course after work one day, "for a quick nine" he said. I was still using the old hickory set with the leather grips worn right off of them.
I beat him. In my first time in a golf course, using 40 year old technology, I beat him. I thought he'd be mad, but he was excited about it. Two days later he came home with my first set of golf clubs.
Long story short, I got to be very good. Very good. But this was the 60s and..... well, golf courses didn't fit in with what was going on.
So I can kind of see where Joe's commitment came from, but I just happened to be good at a lot of things, and those things all got in the way of a career in golf. Joe was (is) smart, but I can't help but feel he missed a lot growing up too.
He seems pretty happy though, even if he does play the Blues like nobody's business. 
it was the British groups that got young people into the Blues. Eric Burden and the Animals, The Stones, John Mayal, The Yardbirds, Clapton etc. American kids didn't listen to the Blues, and that's a crying shame. The only true American music was snubbed by most Americans.
I'm just glad it's here, and almost everyone knows the roots of the Blues these days. We'll never be able to repay the old Bluesmen who are gone, but their music will live on forever. And for that I'm very grateful. 
