Blues deluxe. Vol. 2 / Joe Bonamassa.
Material type:![Music](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/MU.png)
- performed music
- audio
- audio disc
- Produced by Josh Smith.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Twenty years after Blues Deluxe, his first all-blues album, Joe Bonamassa delivers a sequel with 2023's Blues Deluxe, Vol. 2. He may follow the same blueprint -- it largely consists of covers, supplemented by two originals -- but the circumstances and collaborators have changed. Here, he foregoes using longtime producer Kevin Shirley to work with Josh Smith, a blues guitarist from Bonamassa's own generation who also contributes the album's closer "Is It Safe to Go Home." Smith helps give Blues Deluxe, Vol. 2 a loose, lived-in feeling that contrasts with the eager fire of the 2003 record. It's a change that suits Bonamassa well. Not pushing so hard with either his vocals or his guitar, Bonamassa instead settles into a muscular, horn-punctuated groove that rolls right through numbers by Bobby "Blue" Bland, Guitar Slim, Ronnie Earle & the Broadcasters, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, and Albert King. Bonamassa solos plenty but the song is placed at the forefront throughout Blues Deluxe, Vol. 2 -- it's closer to an old LP from the '60s than to the shredding blues-rockers who followed in the wake of Stevie Ray Vaughan, which is a roundabout way of saying that Bonamassa's blues seem to be deepening as he grows older, which is not a bad thing at all. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Title from disc label.
Joe Bonamassa ; with accompanying and featured musicians.
Produced by Josh Smith.
Recorded at Sunset Sound Studio B and Ocean Way Nashville.
Twenty-four hour blues -- It's hard but it's fair -- Well, I done got over it -- I want to shout about it -- Win-o -- Hope you realize it (goodbye again) -- Lazy poker blues -- You sure drive a hard bargain -- The truth hurts (feat. Kirk Fletcher & Josh Smith) -- Is it safe to go home.
Twenty years since the release of his best-selling album Blues Deluxe, which celebrated "the year of the blues" with unforgettable reinterpretations of classic tracks, Joe Bonamassa is taking stock of how far he and the genre have come with Blues Deluxe Vol. 2 Featuring two new originals and eight new covers of some of the most influential names in the blues, Bonamassa returns to his roots and gives new life to the classic tracks that have informed his own artistry.