| Joe Bonamassa - Dust Bowl Review |
| 09-04-2011 09:10 | 0 comment(s) |
 Joe Bonamassa is an American blues guitarist who regularly wins awards in guitar magazines and has been praised by BB King. But his real love is British blues-rock from the 70s, and in his new band, Black Country Communion, he demonstrates his fluid, wailing guitar solos in the company of singer Glenn Hughes, once with Deep Purple, and Jason Bonham, son of the great Zeppelin drummer. Bonamassa's solo albums allow him to explore more varied interests, and last year's best-selling Black Rock was an eclectic set mixing acoustic and Greek themes with the rapid-fire solos. This new album is almost as interesting. Bouzoukis are mixed with the rock riffs in the partly acoustic Black Lung Heartache, there is some cheerfully impressive playing on the Walter Jacobs favourite You Better Watch Yourself, some thoughtful guitar work on the trumpet-backed The Last Matador of Bayonne, and an unlikely blues-rock treatment of Barbra Streisand's Prisoner. There's even a dash of Nashville, with John Hiatt singing on his excellent, pounding country-rocker Tennessee Plates, and Vince Gill appearing on the easy-going Sweet Rowena. To keep the head-bangers happy, Bonamassa can't resist bashing through Free's 1973 song Heartbreaker in the company of Hughes. |
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