Artist: JOE BONAMASSA
Album: BLACK ROCK (DIGI)

Year: 2010
EAN/UPS: 8712725730026
Media type: CD

Just awarded the Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award at the U.K.’s prestigious Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards, blues-rock guitar hero and singer-songwriter Joe Bonamassa is set to release his tenth full-length solo album, BLACK ROCK, on March 22, 2010 On Provogue Records in Europe.

This album was recorded at, and named for, Black Rock Studios in Santorini, Greece. “With this album, we wanted to explore a ‘world’ feeling, and this was the inspiration behind going to record in Greece and using some of the best Greek musicians to add a little flavor to a couple of the tracks. But it’s by no means a ‘world’ album.
We wanted Joe’s usual youthful and energetic tones to play alongside the worldly vibes of the Greek bouzouki and clarino,” said producer Kevin Shirley. Bonamassa says, “It was the kind of record Kevin and I wanted to make. We needed to rock again a bit like on my first album. I wrote the whole thing there.”

Also Joe signed up Blues legend B.B. King for a duet on his new album. The song they perform together is a rendition of the Willie Nelson-penned song, “Night Life,” which appeared on King’s 1967 album BLUES IS KING. Shirley says about the experience, “This is a rollicking Stonesy-vibe version of the Willie Nelson song on which B.B. King duets with Joe, both vocally and on his famous Lucille guitar. What a joy and an honor to work with the legend who is possibly the pivot point and unifying musician between Blues and Rock.”

TRACKLIST:

1."Steal Your Heart Away" (Bobby Parker cover)
2."I Know A Place" (John Hiatt cover)
3."When The Fire Hits The Sea"
4."Quarryman's Lament"
5."Spanish Boots" (Jeff Beck cover)
6."Bird On A Wire" (Leonard Cohen cover)
7."Three Times A Fool" (Otis Rush cover)
8."Night Life" ft. B. B. King (Willie Nelson cover)
9."Wandering Earth"
10."Look Over Yonder's Wall" (Freddie King cover)
11."Athens To Athens"
12."Blue And Evil"
13."Baby You Gotta Change Your Mind" (Blind Boy Fuller cover)