CD Details
- Released: February 24, 2009
- Label: Premier Artists
Entertainment Reviews:
Q (Magazine) - p.100
3 stars out of 5 -- "[F]ronted by the sterling title track, its amped-up virtuoso musicianship more than compensates. There's a varied choice of covers too, including the Sam Brown hit 'Stop!'..."
Tracks:
- 1.The Ballad of John Henry
- 2.Stop!
- 3.Last Kiss
- 4.Jockey Full of Bourbon
- 5.Story of a Quarryman
- 6.Lonesome Road Blues
- 7.Happier Times
- 8.Feelin' Good
- 9.Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter
- 10.The Great Flood
- 11.From the Valley
- 12.As the Crow Flies
Product Description:
Personnel: Joe Bonamassa (vocals, guitar); David Woodford (saxophone); Lee Thornburg (brass); Rick Melick (keyboards, background vocals); Bogie Bowles, Anton Fig (drums).
Audio Mixer: Kevin Shirley.
Liner Note Author: Joe Bonamassa.
Recording information: The Document Room, Malibu, CA.
Illustrator: Dennis Friel.
Photographer: Rob Shanahan.
Arranger: Lee Thornburg.
Blues-rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa gets up to his usual tricks on THE BALLAD OF JOHN HENRY, dabbling in a variety of genres, but injecting them all with a serious dose of guitar heroics. Like his musical forefather Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bonamassa is both soulful and a shredder, and he brings those qualities to tracks like Tom Waits's "Jockey Full of Bourbon," Ike & Tina Turner's "Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter," and a handful of rock and blues-fused originals. Bonamassa has a progressive sensibility, but that never keeps him, on any of BALLAD's 12 tracks, from rocking like no one's business.
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