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Joe Bonamassa: Black Rock

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Label: J&R Adventures
Released: 2010.03.24
Time:
 52:51
Category: Blues
Producer(s): Kevin Shirley
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: jbonamassa.com
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Purchase date: 2013
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Steal Your Heart Away (Bobby Parker cover) (Bobby Parker) - 3:48
[2] I Know a Place (John Hiatt cover) (John Hiatt) - 4:19
[3] When the Fire Hits the Sea (Joe Bonamassa) - 3:55
[4] Quarryman's Lament (Joe Bonamassa) - 5:22
[5] Spanish Boots (Jeff Beck cover) (Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood) - 4:38
[6] Bird on a Wire (Leonard Cohen cover) (Leonard Cohen) - 5:21
[7] Three Times a Fool (Otis Rush cover) (Otis Rush) - 2:02
[8] Night Life (ft. B. B. King; Willie Nelson cover) (Walt Breeland, Paul Buskirk, Willie Nelson) - 3:26
[9] Wandering Earth (Joe Bonamassa) - 4:19
[10] Look Over Yonder's Wall (Freddie King cover) (James Clark) - 3:27
[11] Athens to Athens (Joe Bonamassa) - 2:26
[12] Blue and Evil (Joe Bonamassa) - 5:44
[13] Baby You Gotta Change Your Mind (Blind Boy Fuller cover) (Blind Boy Fuller) - 4:25

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Joe Bonamassa – Guitars, Vocals
Rick Melick – Keyboards
Carmine Rojas – Bass
Bogie Bowles – Drums

Thanasis Vasilopoulos - Clarino
David Woodford - Saxophone
Manolis Karadinis - Bouzouki
Lee Thornburg - Brass & Brass Arranger

Guests:
B.B. King – Guitars, Vocals
Anton Fig – Drums

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Black Rock is an album by the American blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa. It was recorded at Black Rock Studios in the Greek island of Santorini and it was released worldwide on March 23, 2010.

Track 8, "Night Life", features a duet between Bonamassa and his childhood hero B. B. King.



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.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide
 

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