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Joe Bonamassa – Albums Collection 2000-2012 (17CD) FLAC
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Collection includes 10 studio albums and 4 live albums by American blues-rock guitar virtuoso Joe Bonamassa.
Guitar mastermind Joe Bonamassa, a young player with the childhood dream of playing music similar to legends like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix, was 22 when he inked a deal with Epic. Hailing from Utica, New York, Bonamassa could play the blues before he could drive a car. He first heard Stevie Ray Vaughan at age four and was instantly taken by Vaughan’s high-powered playing. At age eight, he opened for B.B. King, and at age 12, he was playing regularly around upstate New York. It was soon thereafter that Bonamassa hooked up with the band Bloodline, which featured other musicians’ sons: Waylon Krieger (Robby Krieger’s son), Erin Davis (Miles Davis’ drummer kid), and Berry Oakley, Jr. (son of the Allman Brothers bassist). Bloodline released a self-titled album, but Bonamassa wanted to move on. In summer 2000 he guested for Roger McGuinn on Jethro Tull’s summer tour, later releasing his debut solo album, A New Day Yesterday. Produced by longtime fan Tom Dowd, the album marked a move toward a more organic and rock-sounding direction. He put together a power trio with drummer Kenny Kramme and bassist Eric Czar and hit the road to support the album.
Upon returning from the road, he hooked up with Dowd to record the muscular and sweeping studio disc So, It’s Like That and released a document of the tour, A New Day Yesterday Live. The following year, Bonamassa put out Blues Deluxe, featuring nine cover versions of blues classics alongside three originals. The muscular You & Me appeared in 2006, followed by the more acoustic-tinged Sloe Gin in 2007. A year later, Bonamassa released the two-disc live album Live from Nowhere in Particular, followed in 2009 by The Ballad of John Henry. Late in 2009 he released the DVD Live from the Royal Albert Hall with guest spots from Eric Clapton and Paul Jones. In 2010, the guitarist released his first disc for the Premier Artists label, Black Rock, featuring a guest appearance by B.B. King. It was followed by the debut album from Black Country Communion, a blues-rock supergroup that put him in the company of bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes, drummer Jason Bonham, and keyboardist Derek Sherinian. Bonamassa, ever the overachiever, released his earthy Dust Bowl in March of 2011, followed by Black Country Communion’s 2 in June and by his unique collaboration with vocalist Beth Hart on a searing collection of soul covers entitled Don’t Explain in September.
In May of 2012, Bonamassa released Driving Towards the Daylight. The album reunited the guitarist with producer Kevin Shirley, who brought in Aerosmith’s Brad Whitford to play rhythm guitar on the 11 tracks. Driving Towards the Daylight was a significant blues hit — it topped the Billboard blues charts and debuted at number two on the overall British charts — and Bonamassa didn’t slow down. Early in 2013, he released a live CD/DVD set called An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House and prepared SeeSaw, a studio album of classic covers with vocalist Beth Hart. SeeSaw was released later in 2013, and Bonamassa and Hart followed it up with Live in Amsterdam in March of 2014.
Biography by MacKenzie Wilson, Allmusic.com
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A New Day Yesterday (2000) Issue 2004
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Named after the early Jethro Tull classic, which he expertly covers here in a jaw-dropping performance, A New Day Yesterday is a fine debut by guitar ace Joe Bonamassa. And though his record company tried to ride the coattails of teenage guitar prodigies like Kenny Wayne Shepard and Jonny Lang and position him (misguidedly and much too late) as a straight-up prodigal blues kid, Bonamassa is really much more than a traditional bluesman. Rather, as best exemplified by the Jethro Tull number cited above, his bluesy take on Free’s “Walk in My Shadows,” or his hard boogie romp through Al Kooper’s “Nuthin’ I Wouldn’t Do (For a Woman Like You),” this excellent debut places the guitarist’s influences as much in classic ’70s hard rock as in the blues. Along with his deceptively age-wearied vocals (he was only 22 at the time of this recording), this unusual combination translates into the aggressive, soulful crunch heard on Bonamassa’s many original compositions. Among these, the jolting double whammy of “Miss You, Hate You” and “Colour and the Shape” (note the Anglicized spelling) are the most obvious standouts, but the guitarist also makes the Warren Haynes-penned “If Heartaches Were Nickels” his own with a tense, riveting performance. All in all, a promising debut.
Review by Eduardo Rivadavia, Allmusic.com
Tracklist:
01. Cradle Rock – 3:51
02. Walk In My Shadows – 3:27
03. A New Day Yesterday – 4:45
04. I Know Where I Belong – 5:38
05. Miss You, Hate You (Rock Radio Remix) – 3:40
06. Nuthin’ I Wouldn’t Do (For A Woman Like You) – 5:10
07. Colour And Shape – 5:03
08. Headaches To Heartbreaks – 4:56
09. Trouble Waiting – 3:26
10. If Heartaches Were Nickels – 7:51
11. Current Situation – 3:36
12. Don’t Burn Down That Bridge – 4:21
13. Miss You, Hate You (Original Full-Lenght Version – Bonus Track) – 6:05
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A New Day Yesterday Live (2002) Issue 2004
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Something of an odd release, A New Day Yesterday Live documents the final date of a 60-day jaunt during blues guitar prodigy Joe Bonamassa’s 2001 tour in support of his major-label debut bearing the same title, and (this is the odd part), released just a few months earlier. Just why his record company felt the need for it, then, is up for grabs (more promotion…thinking Bonamassa’s virtuosity came across stronger in a live setting…who knows?), but what’s clear is that the young guitarist’s trio lacked nothing in terms of on-stage presence and performing tightness as compared to what was heard on said studio album. Their kinetic reinventions of oft-overlooked ’70s rock classics such as Free’s “Walk in My Shadows” and Jethro Tull’s “A New Day Yesterday” instantly distinguish Bonamassa from teenage blues competitors such as the overly Stevie Ray Vaughan-reliant Kenny Wayne Shepherd or the more purist (and technically less dazzling) Jonny Lang, and his better-conceived originals (“Colour & Shape,” the wonderful “Miss You Hate You”) stand up under any circumstance — but again, so what? Didn’t listeners just buy their studio versions a few months ago? Yes, there’s the additional benefit of extended jamming and incendiary guitar soloing to expand upon their themes, but suffice to say that this set need only be sought out by Bonamassa fanatics, or, in the event that they’ve yet to hear the studio version, first timers, too — why not?
Review by Eduardo Rivadavia, Allmusic.com
Tracklist:
01. Jam Intro – 3:21
02. Cradle Rock – 3:38
03. Steppin Out/Rice Pudding – 5:32
04. A New Day Yesterday – 8:05
05. Miss You, Hate You – 7:20
06. Walk In My Shadows – 5:57
07. I Know Where I Belong – 10:14
08. Colour & Shape – 6:13
09. Trouble Waiting – 4:37
10. If Heartaches Were Nickels – 7:43
11. Dont Burn Down That Bridge – 8:22
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So, It’s Like That (2002) Issue 2004
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Joe Bonamassa may well be a young guitar virtuoso, in line with the likes of Derek Trucks and John Mayer (like Jonny Lang and Kenny Wayne Shepherd before them) to be the Next Blues-Rock Guitar Hero. Unfortunately, he’s not much of a songwriter. So, It’s Like That, his sophomore solo effort, is filled with subpar tunes bloated with clichés. The production (by Clif Magness) is swell enough, though Bonamassa’s guitar sometimes sounds too carefully dirty, and his band — comprised of drummer Kenny Kramme and bassist Eric Czar — far too generic. Bonamassa shines when he is allowed to stretch out and explore, on songs such as the sonically varied “Pain and Sorrow.” There, on a long improvisation, he works through myriad modes of playing, textures, and musical ideas. And, since it is one of the album’s only extended tracks, it is also one of the album’s only redeeming moments — and the only thing that clearly separates Bonamassa from generic boorishness.
Review by Jesse Jarnow, Allmusic.com
Tracklist:
01. My Mistake – 4:53
02. Lie #1 – 4:22
03. No Slack – 5:05
04. Unbroken – 3:49
05. So, It’s Like That – 2:49
06. Waiting For Me – 3:54
07. Never Say Goodbye – 3:32
08. Mountain Time – 3:42
09. Pain And Sorrow – 10:37
10. Takin’ The Hit – 4:44
11. Under The Radar – 3:20
12. Sick In Love – 3:25
13. The Hard Way – 7:49
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Blues Deluxe (2003) Issue 2004
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Joe Bonamassa’s first solo release in 2000, A New Day Yesterday, paid homage to classic ’70s blues/hard rock. Three years later, with the release of Blues Deluxe, the young guitarist is doing the same with the roots of the blues. Eight of the 12 tracks are covers: B.B. King’s “You Upset Me Baby,” John Lee Hooker’s “Burning Hell,” Buddy Guy’s “Man of Many Words,” Elmore James’ “Wild About You Baby,” T-Bone Walker’s “Long Distance Blues,” Freddie King’s “Pack It Up,” Albert Collins’ “Left Overs,” and Robert Johnson’s “Walking Blues.” The problem with about half of the disc is the difficulty of covering this type of material without being able to add much to it. At this relatively early stage in Bonamassa’s discography, it may have been a better idea if he would have mixed 70-percent originals with a few covers instead of vice-versa. It’s obvious Bonamassa has devoured this material, but his take on “Burning Hell,” for instance, doesn’t come close to matching the strength and realism of the original. The album’s strong points are the three originals — “Woke Up Dreaming,” “I Don’t Live Anywhere,” and “Mumbling Word” — and the Jeff Beck Group’s “Blues Deluxe,” which features smokin’ guitar pyrotechnics. Still, thanks to musicians like Bonamassa, the more traditional blues artists covered on this disc continue to gain just as much exposure as younger artists as Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, or Jimi Hendrix.
Review by Al Campbell, Allmusic.com
Tracklist:
01. You Upset Me Baby – 3:35
02. Burning Hell – 6:50
03. Blues Deluxe – 7:20
04. Man of Many Words – 4:11
05. Woke Up Dreaming – 2:51
06. I Don’t Live Anywhere – 3:42
07. Wild About You Baby – 3:39
08. Long Distance Blues – 3:53
09. Pack It Up – 4:04
10. Left Overs – 3:24
11. Walking Blues – 4:29
12. Mumbling Word – 3:28
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Had to Cry Today (2004)
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Guitar hero Bonamassa may have dropped the “Smokin’” prefix from his performing name that he carried as a teenager, but he still specializes in superheated fret work. And for him, the faster it is, the better. Bonamassa sought to showcase the “heavier side of blues” on his fourth studio recording, emphasizing the approach used by the classic English blues-rockers. And he does just that with a hyperactive “Travellin’ South” that Ten Years After would have been proud to claim and a hard-edged remake of the B.B. King hit “Never Make Your Move Too Soon”. The title track, a Blind Faith favorite, is transformed into a frenetic live jam while Lowell Fulson’s “Reconsider Baby”, a staple of Bonamassa’s live show, is given an extended workout and features some of his most potent blues licks. Sometimes Bonamassa is in too much of a hurry for his own good, but his penchant for speed works especially well on a couple of instrumentals. He races through “Revenge of the 10 Gallon Hat”, a country-flavored tribute to mentor Danny Gatton, and the rapid-fire, Al Di Meola-influenced closer “Faux Mantini.”
Review by Michael Point, Amazon
Tracklist:
01. Never Make Your Move Too Soon – 4:06
02. Travellin’ South – 3:51
03. Junction 61 – 0:49
04. Reconsider Baby – 6:52
05. Around the Bend – 5:11
06. Revenge Of The 10 Gallon Hat – 2:54
07. When She Dances – 4:54
08. Had to Cry Today – 6:50
09. The River – 5:30
10. When The Sun Goes Down – 2:45
11. Faux Mantini – 2:27
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You & Me (2006)
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Despite his statement in the liner notes that “In an era where it is best to play it safe, I chose to take a risk…,” there isn’t much surprising or risky about young guitarist Joe Bonamassa’s fifth studio album. Most of his previous releases have mixed blues covers with his own originals, all played with a rocker’s attitude, volume and less-than-subtle approach. This one follows suit and even though he goes on to say that he “wanted to make a blues album, not a rock album that has blues on it,” as in the past; it’s impossible to claim that he has succeeded with You & Me. That doesn’t make this a bad or disappointing disc; quite the contrary, it’s a solid blues-rock release and arguably his best work to date. But as early as the second track, an original rocker titled “Bridge to Better Days,” Bonamassa takes off on an early Free/Savoy Brown-styled stomper. Things settle down and get more rootsy on the following two slow blues tracks, although a lovely Bonamassa original, “Asking Around for You,” adds strings, not exactly a touch most would associate with pure blues. Regardless, it’s extremely effective and when the strings return on a nine-and-a-half-minute cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Tea for One,” it is a spine-tingling experience and possibly this album’s finest moment. Drummer Jason Bonham, who is excellent throughout, brings additional authenticity to the song his dad first played on. Bonamassa unplugs for a few mid-disc tracks, including a cover of “Tamp ‘Em Up Solid” (oddly credited to Ry Cooder but typically known as a traditional piece, even on Cooder’s version). Twelve-year-old harmonica whiz L.D. Miller does his best John Popper imitation on a hyperactive version of Sonny Boy Williamson’s “Your Funeral and My Trial” (someone needs to inform the kid that playing lots of notes really fast doesn’t mean he has soul), and the instrumental titled “Django” shows that Bonamassa has been listening to Gary Moore’s “Parisienne Walkways.” It adds up to a quality Bonamassa disc that will please existing fans and might bring some new ones into the fold, but it’s also one that doesn’t take the chances that he claims might push the guitarist into uncharted territory.
Review by Hal Horowitz, Allmusic.com
Tracklist:
01. High Water Everywhere – 4:07
02. Bridge to Better Days – 5:07
03. Asking Around for You – 4:18
04. So Many Roads – 7:06
05. I Don’t Believe – 3:23
06. Tamp Em Up Solid – 2:31
07. Django – 4:57
08. Tea for One – 9:35
09. Palm Trees Helicopters and Gasoline – 1:47
10. Your Funeral and My Trial – 3:00
11. Torn Down – 4:28
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Sloe Gin (2007)
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For his seventh studio album, guitar wiz Joe Bonamassa has chosen to work again with producer Kevin Shirley, who produced the highly successful and huge-sounding You & Me for Bonamassa in 2006. This outing, though, is far from a ditto session, with a much more acoustic feel and a greater focus on Bonamassa’s singing, which unfortunately has been generally (and unfairly) overshadowed by his guitar playing. Bonamassa has also stepped up his songwriting (four of the 11 tracks here are originals; the rest are blues and hard rock covers) and cut way down on his clichés, delivering in the process his most varied and impressive album yet. The lead track, a version of Chris Whitley’s “Ball Peen Hammer,” is an atmospheric gem, as is the title tune, a cover of a song written by Bob Ezrin and Michael Kamen that first appeared on Tim Curry’s solo debut album in 1978. Bonamassa’s singing on both of these is wonderfully nuanced and shows he can do way more than just shout out blues-rockers. Also worth noting is his Dobro work on a fine cover of John Martyn’s “Jelly Roll,” and then there are the four originals — “Dirt in My Pocket,” “Richmond,” “Around the Bend,” and the striking “India” — which show Bonamassa’s continued growth and confidence as a songwriter. There are less of those flashy and jaw-dropping guitar leads on Sloe Gin (rest assured, he stretches out a few times on guitar, though), which is mostly a good thing, since it allows his increasing maturity as a writer and singer to shine through. This is a fine album, and one gets the distinct feeling that an even better one may be lurking just around the bend.
Review by Steve Leggett, Allmusic.com
Tracklist:
01. Ball Peen Hammer – 3:27
02. One Of These Days – 5:40
03. Seagull – 3:49
04. Dirt In My Pocket – 4:55
05. Sloe Gin – 8:14
06. Another Kind Of Love – 3:11
07. Around The Bend – 5:16
08. Black Night – 4:22
09. Jelly Roll – 2:13
10. Richmond – 4:31
11. India – 3:20
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Live from Nowhere in Particular (2008) 2CD
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Two CD set. Live from Nowhere in Particular is the 2008 album from Joe Bonamassa, an US blues guitarist/singer. Guitar One Magazine has stated that ‘he just might be the best guitarist of his generation.’ His blues-rock style is similar to that of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s. In an interview in ‘Guitarist’ magazine (issue 265), Joe Bonamassa cited the three albums that had the biggest influence on his playing: John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton (the ‘Beano Album’), Rory Gallagher’s ‘Irish Tour’ and ‘Goodbye’ by Cream.
Tracklist:
CD 1 – 00:44:13
01. Bridge to Better Days – 5:28
02. Walk in my Shadows – 5:15
03. So Many Roads – 6:10
04. India-Mountain Time – 10:18
05. Another Kinda Love – 3:48
06. Sloe Gin – 7:20
07. One of These Days – 5:54
CD 2 – 00:54:28
01. Ball Peen Hammer – 4:24
02. If Heartaches Were Nickels – 4:08
03. Woke Up Dreaming – 7:59
04. Django-Just Got Paid – 17:53
05. High Water Everywhere – 4:49
06. Asking Around For You – 7:24
07. A New Day Yesterday-Starship Trooper-Wurm – 7:51
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The Ballad of John Henry (2009)
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In 2007, Joe Bonamassa titled his album after a Bob Ezrin song. In 2009, he named his seventh studio album The Ballad of John Henry after one of the most enduring tales in American folk music. The difference between these two songs should signal a great difference between the two albums and that’s true, to a certain extent. The Ballad of John Henry is heavy on myth-making that translates to heavy guitars on several occasions, particularly on the epic six-minute title track, whose roiling minor-key riffs, orchestrations, and excursions into acoustic instruments are closer to prog than blues. While the rest of the record never gets as overblown as this, it shares similar thick sonics and a sober sensibility, an approach that treats Ike & Tina Turner’s “Funkier Than a Mosquito’s Tweeter” as sacred text and straightens out Tom Waits’ “Jockey Full of Bourbon.” This sobriety means that The Ballad isn’t a whole lot of fun — when Bonamassa sings that he’s “Feelin’ Good,” it feels a bit like drudgery — but this dogged approach does give the album some self-serious heft, adding the impression of weight that fits a record that feels like a summation of his strengths. His guitar and voice carry equal weight as he runs through SRV-styled slow blues, a shuffle or two, acoustic numbers, covers, and originals — everything that he’s dabbled with on previous albums is pulled together here, making for his most varied album and possibly his best, even if that heaviness means that it’s not necessarily the easiest to enjoy.
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic.com
Tracklist:
01. The Ballad Of John Henry – 6:27
02. Stop! – 6:48
03. Last Kiss – 7:15
04. Jockey Full Of Bourbon – 5:22
05. Story Of A Quarryman – 5:00
06. Lonesome Road Blues – 3:09
07. Happier Times – 6:40
08. Feelin’ Good – 4:44
09. Funkier Than A Mosquito’s Tweeter – 5:00
10. The Great Flood – 7:39
11. From The Valley – 2:24
12. As The Crow Flies – 3:59
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Live from the Royal Albert Hall (2009) 2CD Issue 2010
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Guitarist Joe Bonamassa was opening for B.B. King when he was only eight years old and was a veteran of the road and gigging by the time he was 12, so it’s tempting to toss him in the all flash but no soul prodigy trash bin that has been filling up pretty well since Stevie Ray Vaughan shuffled off to blues heaven — but that would be a big mistake. Bonamassa has soul, plenty of it, and he plays guitar with a reverent grace, and sometimes lost in all this is that he’s a pretty good singer, too, sounding more than a little bit like a reconstituted Paul Rodgers. His stunning headline show from the Royal Albert Hall, which featured guest spots by Eric Clapton and Paul Jones, was released in 2009 on DVD and download versions of the songs have been available on iTunes for a while, but this two-disc set marks the first official release of the concert as an album in and of itself, and it’s simply wonderful, full of great guitar playing, solid singing, and with a horn section and double drummers on board, the sound is full and even majestic. Bonamassa is the real deal, and tracks here like the elegant opener “Django,” “The Ballad of John Henry,” the marvelous cover of Charley Patton’s “High Water Everywhere,” and a shifting, sprawling workout on Rod Stewart’s “Blues Deluxe” show a musician at the top of his game, one who has learned that a guitar lead should serve the song and not the other way around. Bonamassa isn’t some kid prodigy anymore — he’s grown up into one of the most soulful blues-rock performers on the planet. There’s plenty of proof of that here.
Review by Steve Leggett, Allmusic.com
Tracklist:
CD 1 – 01:06:51
01. Django – 3:44
02. The Ballad Of John Henry – 6:47
03. So It’s Like That – 2:56
04. Last Kiss – 7:18
05. So Many Roads – 6:16
06. Stop! – 5:56
07. Further On Up The Road (with Eric Clapton) – 5:45
08. Woke Up Dreaming – 10:06
09. High Water Everywhere – 5:07
10. Sloe Gin – 8:19
11. Lonesome Road Blues – 4:38
CD 2 – 01:05:18
01. Happier Times – 7:22
02. Your Funeral My Trial – 4:05
03. Blues Deluxe – 9:13
04. Story Of A Quarryman – 5:15
05. The Great Flood – 7:53
06. Just Got Paid – 10:44
07. Mountain Time – 10:43
08. Asking Around For You – 10:02
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Black Rock (2010)
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It’s a sign of Joe Bonamassa’s increasing profile that he got blues legend B.B. King to guest on his eighth album Black Rock — and if what you’re doing is good enough to rope B.B. in, there’s not much reason to change, so Bonamassa doesn’t tinker with his formula here, retaining a little of the folky undertow of The Ballad of John Henry, but with its remaining roots in a thick, heavy blues-rock more redolent of ‘60s London than the ‘50s Delta. Of course, Bonamassa has never shied away from his love of Brit-blues, even underscoring it with a good streamlined cover of Jeff Beck’s “Spanish Boots,” but he retains a healthy respect for all manners of classic blues, kicking out a Chicago groove on a cover of Otis Rush’s “Three Times a Fool,” reaching back to Blind Boy Fuller for “Baby You Gotta Change Your Mind” and ably replicating B.B.’s latter-day soul groove on a horn-smacked cover of Willie Nelson’s “Night Life.” Bonamassa has an ear for non-blues writers too, cherrypicking Leonard Cohen’s “Bird on a Wire” and John Hiatt’s “I Know a Place,” tying it all together with beefy lead lines, but the provocative moments on Black Rock are all self-penned, whether it’s the clattering stomp “When the Fire Hits the Sea,” the British folk lilt of “Quarryman’s Lament” and “Athens to Athens,” or the droning dramatic epic “Blue and Evil.” These are easily the most intriguing songs here, suggesting Bonamassa realizes that the familiar covers allow him to stretch out elsewhere, and while it might be interesting hearing him follow this path for a full album, what’s here on Black Rock is both satisfying and admirably, if reservedly, ambitious.
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic.com
Tracklist:
01. Steal Your Heart Away – 3:48
02. I Know A Place – 4:19
03. When The Fire Hits The Sea – 3:55
04. Quarryman’s Lament – 5:22
05. Spanish Boots – 4:39
06. Bird On A Wire – 5:21
07. Three Times A Fool – 2:03
08. Night Life – 3:26
09. Wandering Earth – 4:19
10. Look Over Yonder’s Wall – 3:27
11. Athens To Athens – 2:27
12. Blue And Evil – 5:44
13. Baby You Gotta Change Your Mind – 4:25
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Dust Bowl (2011)
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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.
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic.com
Tracklist:
01. Slow Train – 6:50
02. Dust Bowl – 4:33
03. Tennessee Plates (feat. John Hiatt) – 4:19
04. The Meaning Of The Blues – 5:44
05. Black Lung Heartache – 4:14
06. You Better Watch Yourself – 3:31
07. The Last Matador Of Bayonne – 5:24
08. Heartbreaker (feat. Glenn Hughes) – 5:49
09. No Love On The Street – 6:32
10. The Whale That Swallowed Jonah – 4:46
11. Sweet Rowena (feat. Vince Gill) – 4:34
12. Prisoner – 6:49
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Beacon Theatre – Live From New York (2012) 2CD
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Joe Bonamassa is a guitar hero and a road dog — the blues-rock crusher plays up to 200 shows a year, and it’s significant that of the 15 albums he released between 2000 and 2012, four of them were live sets. When Bonamassa played the Beacon Theatre in New York City in November 2011, the marquee declared it “the guitar event of the year,” and something that important would certainly merit another live album, wouldn’t it? Beacon Theatre: Live from New York is a hefty two-disc set that features plenty of Bonamassa’s trademark guitar work, at once precise and bombastic and firmly rooted in the traditions of British blues, and for this show he had Paul Rodgers on hand to lend appropriately swaggering lead vocals to a pair of Free covers, “Fire and Water” and “Walk in My Shadows.” Two other guest singers pop up on this set: John Hiatt, whose craggy tone lends a welcome bit of texture to versions of two of his tunes, “Down Around My Place” and “I Know a Place,” and Beth Hart, who has collaborated with Bonamassa in the past and lends her voice to spirited versions of “Sinner’s Prayer” and “I’ll Take Care of You.” There’s no arguing the technical skill of Bonamassa and his band (Carmine Rojas on bass, Rick Melick on keys, and Tal Bergman on drums), who perform with the accuracy of a Swiss watch, but some might question his taste — there’s nothing the least bit subtle about Bonamassa’s big, burly sound, and the emotional shadings of these songs are pretty much trampled into the dirt by the end of disc one, while the presence of the guest stars unfortunately reminds listeners that Bonamassa’s vocals are not on a par with his skills on the fretboard. But if you’re already a convert, Beacon Theatre: Live from New York finds Bonamassa playing with all his might for a crowd who are clearly digging what he has to offer, and if, like many of his fans, you’re convinced he sounds stronger and more powerful on-stage, this album will tide you over nicely until he next rolls into your area.
Mark Deming, Allmusic.com
Tracklist:
CD1:
01. 72nd St. Subway Blues (01:05)
02. Slow Train (06:35)
03. Cradle Rock (04:22)
04. When the Fire Hits the Sea (03:43)
05. Midnight Blues (07:49)
06. Dust Bowl (07:06)
07. The River (06:36)
08. I’ll Take Care of You (05:41)
09. Sinner’s Prayer (05:04)
10. You Better Watch Yourself (04:10)
11. Steal Your Heart Away (03:52)
CD2:
01. Bird On a Wire (05:45)
02. Down Around My Place (05:51)
03. I Know a Place (04:38)
04. Blue And Evil (06:50)
05. Walk in My Shadows (04:58)
06. Fire and Water (04:38)
07. Mountain Time (12:32)
08. Young Man Blues (09:39)
09. If Heartaches Were Nickels (08:06)
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Driving Towards The Daylight (2012) Special Edition
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He’ll never be the new Stevie Ray Vaughan, but at the rate blues-rock (emphasis on the latter) guitarist Joe Bonamassa is going, he can take a stab at being the next Gary Moore. Like the Irish guitarist, Bonamassa is influenced by the British blues-rockers more than the Americans they lifted their licks from. He’s also just as prolific; this is his thirteenth album in twelve years and that’s not including side projects with Black Country Communion and Beth Hart, and DVDs grabbed from his 200-night-a-year road schedule filled with sweaty, high-energy performances. Makes you tired just reading about it. Bonamassa isn’t much of a songwriter so he wisely contributes only four tunes to this disc’s eleven, with some relatively obscure deep blues covers from Howlin’ Wolf (“Who’s Been Talkin’”), Willie Dixon (“I Got All You Need”), and Robert Johnson (“Stones in My Passway”) gravitating toward his roots side. Also included are offbeat choices from Bill Withers (“Lonely Town/Lonely Street”) and Tom Waits (“New Coat of Paint”). For better or worse, they all end up sounding like Joe Bonamassa tracks, since he feeds them into his leathery rock sensibilities, churning out requisite hot guitar solos whether they serve the song or not. He’s left his road-hardened band on the sidelines and calls in top-notch session guys, including Aerosmith’s Brad Whitford, David Letterman drummer Anton Fig, and keyboardist Arlen Schierbaum, whose piano and organ add some much-needed R&B attitude to the hard rock attack. Bonamassa even relinquishes lead vocals to Australian Jimmy Barnes, who goes so over the top singing his own “Too Much Ain’t Enough Love” it seems like he is auditioning for AC/DC. Longtime producer Kevin Shirley gets a slick, professional sound from these guys, and when everyone is cooking and the material is solid, such as on the grinding Bonamassa original “Dislocated Boy” and the Wolf cover (including a spoken word sample of the blues legend that kicks off the tune), the arrangements and guitars mesh together like whisky and soda. What Bonamassa lacks in a distinctive sound and singing, he makes up for with sheer determination, which is almost enough to push the album from pretty good to pretty great, especially on the horn-enhanced slow blues of “A Place in My Heart” that explodes out of the speakers in a way Gary Moore could summon at will. In other words, this is a keeper if you’ve already bought into the guitarist’s more-is-more approach that has served him well thus far, and he shows no signs of abandoning it now.
Hal Horowitz, Allmusic.com
Tracklist:
01. Dislocated Boy (06:39)
02. Stones In My Passway (03:56)
03. Driving Towards The Daylight (04:49)
04. Who’s Been Talking? (03:27)
05. I Got All You Need (03:03)
06. A Place In My Heart (06:47)
07. Lonely Town Lonely Street (07:05)
08. Heavenly Soul (05:55)
09. New Coat Of Paint (04:06)
10. Somewhere Trouble Don’t Go (04:58)
11. Too Much Ain’t Enough Love (w\ Jimmy Barnes) (05:37)
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