18.03.2007.

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JOE BONAMASSA - You & Me (2006)

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The popularity for blues seems to come in cycles. The current period has been particularly long-lived, and that has really been a great boon for the music, and artists who make it. A previous big blues boom took place in the 1960s when a generation of rock fans discovered the music indirectly though then-young, largely British musicians who heard recordings by some of the original artists of the 1940s and 1950s Chicago scene and transmogrified the music in their own way. Some of the biggest names in rock were part of that British blues scene, including The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, and even Pink Floyd and the Moody Blues. The current blues scene is a bit more authentic, if you will, hewing more toward the classic and traditional sounds, as played by veteran American blues artists. But the British-influenced blues-rock scene was also the source of a lot of what has become the lexicon of so-called "classic rock," and led to styles from heavy metal to Southern rock. This week, we have a new recording that, though blues-based, is definitely in the electric blues-rock tradition going back to the 1960s. It's the latest by guitarist Joe Bonamassa called You and Me.

01. High Water Everywhere
02. Bridge To Better Days
03. Asking Around For You
04. So Many Roads
05. I Don’t Believe
06. Tamp Em Up Solid
07. Django
08. Tea For One
09. Palm Trees Helicopters And Gasoline
10. Your Funeral And My Trial
11. Torn Down
HERE