Artist: AEROSMITH
Album: HONKIN’ ON BOBO (CD)

Release date: 2004
Media type: CD

Honkin' on Bobo is the fourteenth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 2004 (see 2004 in music). The album includes eleven covers and one original track titled "The Grind". The limited edition version includes a harmonica keychain. The sound reflects Aerosmith's blues-based influences and showcases a rawer sound (reminiscent of their 1970s heyday) compared to their recent commercial efforts and was also produced by Jack Douglas, who was Aerosmith's producer on a vast majority of their 1970s' output.

Reaching # 5 on The Billboard 200, Honkin' on Bobo has sold 590,000 units in the U.S. as of October 2006, having been certified gold.

TRACKLIST:

"Road Runner" (Bo Diddley) – 3:46
"Shame, Shame, Shame" (Ruby Fisher, Kenyon Hopkins) – 2:15, originally sung by Smiley Lewis
"Eyesight to the Blind" (Sonny Boy Williamson II) – 3:10
"Baby, Please Don't Go" (Big Joe Williams) – 3:24
"Never Loved a Girl" (Ronny Shannon) – 3:12
"Back Back Train" (Fred McDowell) – 4:24
"You Gotta Move" (Rev. Gary Davis, McDowell) – 5:30
"The Grind" (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Marti Frederiksen) – 3:47
"I'm Ready" (Willie Dixon) – 4:15
"Temperature" (Joel Michael Cohen, Little Walter) – 2:52
"Stop Messin' Around" (Clifford Adams, Peter Green) – 4:32
"Jesus Is on the Main Line" (Traditional) – 2:50

LINE-UP:

Joey Kramer - drums, backing vocals
Joe Perry - guitar, vocals, slide guitar, dobro, hurdygurdy
Steven Tyler - lead vocals, harmonica, piano
Brad Whitford - guitar
Tom Hamilton - bass

Additional personnel:
Tracy Bonham - vocals
Johnnie Johnson - piano
The Memphis Horns - brass
Paul Santo - piano, Hammond organ, pump organ, Wurlitzer