Joe Bonamassa is releasing a new album in September.
"Oh no not another Joe Bonamassa album!" I hear you scream.
1) His last studio album was released in 2012 (Driving Toward the Daylight)
2) This album contains... ENTIRELY ORIGINAL MATERIAL! That's right. ZERO blues covers. Just all blues originals by JB.
Well, I actually think some of the stuff he writes of his own is better than the covers anyway. I love songs like The Ballad of John Henry, Driving Towards the Daylight, Bridge to Better Days, Torn Down, Black Lung Heartache, Slow Train among others.
It's called Different Shades of Blue, here's the cover:
Thoughts?
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Joe would be a lot better off without him IMHO. It is also an awful album title.
I wish he'd stuck with BCC, I'd have loved to have seen them live.
Not sure what I think of the idea of all-originals...I tend to find the covers are better..
EDIT: I do find, as a JB fan, that the sheer amount of product he has out there is getting ridiculous and is alienating his fans, plus his pricing is way off the mark.
He released separate DVD's of the London shows each now priced around £18 and in a stroke of marketing genius released them as a box set of 4 which was MORE expensive than buying them individually. D'oh.
Definitely feeling like we're funding his expensive guitar collection rather than getting good value for money.
There's generally nothing worse than an 'original' blues....
This is where an artist comes up with some hackneyed tosh in order to receive publishing as well.
I will not be going within several hundred yards of a copy of this....
@not_the_dj what's that picture from then?
That picture made me think of the film The World's Fastest Indian which is, in part, set on the Utah Salt Flats in the 1960's. Slightly sentimental but quite enjoyable fillum.
I'm not a fan of his 'corporate/dark-glasses' image but I don't hear people slagging of Joe Satriani for looking like a twit.
Come on chaps, he's a decent player, trying to keep his career going as best he can. Sure he is derivative and has nicked plenty of his chops from other players (who of us hasn't?), but he plays his heart out and inspires a lot of young players.
I don't own a single album by him, and probably never will, but give the guy a break. He's working as hard as he can and putting it out there. He earns my respect for that.
Anyways, Doug & Pat seem to like him... and that's good enough for me
I do laugh at his...emmmm....brand leverage though....
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.