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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.
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Dan Walsh, Writer - Steve Barri, Writer - Harvey Price, Writer - Joe Bonamassa, MainArtist
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Joe Bonamassa, MainArtist - Robert Lee Parker, Writer
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Eddie Jones, Writer - Joe Bonamassa, MainArtist
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Joe Bonamassa, MainArtist - Steve Gomes, Writer - Ronald Horvath, Writer
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Joe Bonamassa, MainArtist - Connie Curtis Crayton, Writer
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Joe Bonamassa, Writer, MainArtist - Tom Hambridge, Writer
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Peter Green, Writer - Joe Bonamassa, MainArtist - Clifford George Adams, Writer
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Joe Bonamassa, MainArtist - Bettye Crutcher, Writer - Allen Jones, Writer
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Josh Smith, FeaturedArtist - Joe Bonamassa, MainArtist - Kenny Neal, Writer - Kirk Fletcher, FeaturedArtist - Jim Payne, Writer - Bob Greenlee, Writer - Ernie Lancaster, Writer
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Josh Smith, Writer - Joe Bonamassa, MainArtist
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Album review
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 /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:42:33
- Main artists: Joe Bonamassa
- Label: J&R Adventures
- Genre: Blues/Country/Folk Blues
© 2023 J&R Adventures ℗ 2023 J&R Adventures
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