Joe Bonamassa
Different Shades Of Blue
J&R Adventures
Joe Bonamassa has
long been known as a six-string slinger of the highest order, one of the new
guard in blues music, always keen to build on the form, take it places it’s not
been before.
On his eleventh
studio cut however, he falls flat. With the exception of ‘I Gave Up Everything
For You, ‘Cept The Blues’, which, almost ironically, is a cracking slab of actual ‘50s-style Chicago blues, the
album is a formulaic flop, due in large part I suspect, to the Nashville song
hucksters brought in to co-write.
As a result, the
album is repetitious, a parade of relatively staid blues/rockers that belie the
man’s previously proven ability to evolve within this most hallowed of genres.
Even his guitar prowess can’t save this one.
2/5
Samuel J. Fell
Key Track: ‘I Gave Up Everything For You, ‘Cept The Blues’
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