Joe Bonamassa - Dust Bowl

Artist:

Bonamassa, Joe

UPC:

804879313861

Description:

Personnel: Joe Bonamassa (vocals, guitar); Rick Melick (keyboards); Tal Bergman (drums, percussion).
Audio Mixer: Kevin Shirley.
Liner Note Author: Joe Bonamassa.
Recording information: Ben`s Studio, Nashville, TN; Black Rock Studios, Santorini, Greece; The Cave, Malibu, CA; The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, CA.
Illustrator: Dennis Friel.
Photographer: Kevin Shirley.
For his second solo album in a year -- not counting his excursion with Black Country Communion -- Joe Bonamassa, the hardest working blues-rock guitarist of the 21st century, strikes up a bit of a smoky Black Keys vibe, signaling that he`s not quite as devoted to the past as he may initially seem. It`s not the only trick he has up his sleeve, either. Appropriately enough for an album entitled Dust Bowl, Bonamassa kicks up some country dirt on this record, enlisting John Hiatt for a duet on the songwriter`s "Tennessee Plates" and bringing Vince Gill in to play on the lazy shuffle "Sweet Rowena." These are accents to an album that otherwise sticks to Bonamassa`s strong suit of blues in the vein of Cream, Stevie Ray, and Gary Moore, but it`s just enough of a difference to give Dust Bowl a distinctive flavor and suggests that the guitarist`s constant work is pushing him to synthesize his clear influences into something that is uniquely his own. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Slow Train
2. Dust Bowl
3. Tennessee Plates
4. Meaning of the Blues, The
5. Black Lung Heartache
6. You Better Watch Yourself
7. Last Matador of Bayonne, The
8. Heartbreaker
9. No Love on the Street
10. Whale That Swallowed Jonah, The
11. Sweet Rowena
12. Prisoner

Album Information

Release Date:

03/22/2011

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Blues

Label:

J&R Adventures

Producer:

Kevin Shirley

Catalog Number:

PRAR93138

Original Release Year:

2011

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Runtime:

63 : 0

Guest Artist:

John Hiatt; Glenn Hughes; Vince Gill

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