Joe Bonamassa - THE BALLAD OF JOHN H |

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.

• Genre: Rock
• Format: CD
• Released: 2009-02-24
• Format: CD
• Genre: ROCK
• Released: 2009-02-24