Sounds | Joe Bonamassa, A Conversation With Alice.
- Vincent Willems
- 3 mei 2020
- 4 minuten om te lezen
Met de nieuwe single A Conversation With Alice krijgen we een voorsmaakje van Joe's nieuwe album. Joe zegt dat zijn volgende studio album wel eens meer in de richting van British blues rock zou kunnen gaan. Deze A Conversation With Alice gaat zeker die richting uit. Toch leuk eens wat anders dan een klassieke Joe te horen. We wachten "ongeduldig" af. Over dit lied wist Joe te vertellen dat het gebaseerd is op een gebeurtenis enkele jaren geleden. Toen enkele vrienden hem vertelden om met iemand te praten over zijn problemen, besloot Joe te praten met een vrouw in LA. En na de tweede sessie leerde hij dat een beetje gek zijn geen kwaad kan en hem eigenlijk beter maakt in zijn job.
Het nieuwe album zou later dit jaar uitkomen.
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As Joe Bonamassa approaches his 26th year as a professional musician, he continues to blaze a remarkably versatile artistic trail, and amass an authentic, innovative and soulful body of work. Bonamassaās career began onstage opening for B.B. King in 1989, when he was only 12 years old. Today, he is hailed worldwide as one of the greatest guitar players of his generation, and is an ever-evolving singer-songwriter who has released 16 solo albums in the last 14 years, all on his own label, J&R Adventures. Bonamassaās tour schedule consistently hovers at around 100 shows worldwide each year, and a heaping handful of markedly diverse side projects keep him thinking outside the box and flexing every musical muscle heās got. He founded and oversees the non-profit Keeping The Blues Alive Foundation to promote the heritage of the blues to the next generation, fund music scholarships, and supplement the loss of music education in public schools. Thereās a case to be made that Joe Bonamassa, like another star who shared the same initials, is the hardest working man in show business. This spring, Bonamassa and J&R Adventures released two projects. The first was a collaboration with powerhouse singer Mahalia Barnes, one of the most impressive female vocalists to come out of Australia, and her band The Soul Mates on an album of Betty Davis covers called Ooh Yea! ā The Betty Davis Songbook, which explores tracks from Davisā sexy, raw funk records of the early 70s. Next is the CD, DVD and Blu-ray Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks, a tribute to Muddy Waters and Howlinā Wolf that was filmed last summer to a sold-out 9,000 person crowd at Red Rocks Amphitheater. Glide Magazine called it āone of the best live blues albums released in the last decade.ā Unlike any Bonamassa show before, Muddy Wolf At Red Rocks marks the start of a tribute concert series that will display a different band and catalog of material that will vary from Bonamassaās music as a solo artist. This summer, heāll continue his celebration of blues heritage with the Three Kings of Blues Tour during which heāll travel to amphitheaters across the country with a musical tribute to Albert King, B.B. King, and Freddie King. It all builds on Bonamassaās ascendant prominence of the past few years. Recent kudos include his very first Grammy nomination for Best Blues Album, which he earned with much-buzzed-about singer-songwriter Beth Hart for their sophomore collaboration, Seesaw; a #1 debut on the Billboard Music Video Chart and Billboard Blues Chart for Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks; 14 #1 Billboard Blues Albums (more than any other artist); a platinum DVD certification for Joe Bonamassa: Live At The Royal Albert Hall; five consecutive āBest Blues Guitaristā wins and a top āBest Overall Guitaristā honor in Guitar Playerās Annual Readersā Choice Awards, and recognition as Billboardās #1 Blues Artist in 2010 and more recently in 2014. Last fall, a much-anticipated new solo studio album called Different Shades Of Blue was released featuring all-new, all-original material. He recorded it in Nashville with Jonathan Cain (Journey), James House (Diamond Rio, Dwight Yoakam, Martina McBride) and Jerry Flowers (Keith Urban). It debuted at #8 on Billboardās Top 200, Bonamassasās highest charting album, first top 10, and biggest sales week ever. According to Billboard, āDifferent Shades of Blue is the highest-ranking blues album in almost two years.ā Critics echoed its accolades calling it the guitaristās āmost cohesive and satisfying artistic statement yetā (MOJO), ā the best yet and then some from an artist whose vision continues to expand with every releaseā (Uncut) and āa career highā (American Way). With sales climbing and accolades pouring in, music insiders and media are beginning to take note of J&R Adventures, the label Bonamassa started with longtime manager Roy Weisman ten years ago. Together, the two mavericks have built a business model that is thriving and nimble in a shaky and unpredictable industry. With divisions in publishing, management, promotion, and memorabilia, the label gives control to the artist and its management directly, rather than a larger entity. This strategy has allowed them to redefine the kind of success an independent artist is capable of, making them two of the music industryās more savvy entrepreneurs and disruptors. As usual, Bonamassa will continue performing live-on-stage, which is exactly where heās most comfortable. āNo one on the scene today plays with as much passion, has as much finesse and raw talent, has reverence for those who came before him, and has as much passion for his craft as Joe Bonamassa,ā writes Classic Rock Revisited. In January, he graced a new stage when he headlined two sold-out nights at the iconic Radio City Music Hall ā a feat Bonamassa himself almost canāt quite believe. But Bonamassaās still got a long way to go, and will certainly in turn inspire many who come after him as he continues to reinvent himself with a varied palette of side projectsāand logs endless miles ādressing up in sunglasses and a suit,ā touring the world and growing his legacy as one of the greatest guitar slingers of all time.