{"id":657,"date":"2010-08-11T12:05:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T19:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=657"},"modified":"2010-08-11T12:05:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T19:05:09","slug":"joe-bonamassa-black-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/joe-bonamassa-black-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"JOE BONAMASSA + Black Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Black-Rock-M2-Review-MarApr2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-658\" title=\"Black-Rock-M2-Review-MarApr2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Black-Rock-M2-Review-MarApr2010.jpg\" alt=\"Black Rock \" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Black-Rock-M2-Review-MarApr2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Black-Rock-M2-Review-MarApr2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>J<\/strong><strong>OE BONAMASSA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Black Rock<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[J&amp;R Adventures]<\/p>\n<p>On his 10th solo album, veteran guitar-slinger Joe Bonamassa reminds us right off the bat how he earned his reputation as one of the world\u2019s top blues-rock axemen\u2014opening with some heavy riffing and a raw-throated bellow with Bobby Parker\u2019s \u201cSteal Your Heart Away.\u201d Named after the Greek studio where it was recorded, <em>Black Rock<\/em> does expand Bonamassa\u2019s sonic palette with dashes of local sounds, including a bouzouki on \u201cQuarryman\u2019s Lament\u201d and a clarino on a lovely version of Leonard Cohen\u2019s \u201cBird on a Wire.\u201d His confidence serves him well on a rollicking horn-driven duet on Willie Nelson\u2019s \u201cNight Life\u201d with none other than B.B. King. The roadhouse feel of that track echoes throughout <em>Black Rock<\/em>, to the extent that it wouldn\u2019t be unreasonable to ask that this album be packaged with a cold bottle of Bud. Too bad some states still have blue laws. \u2013 Bob Cannon<\/p>\n<div><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOE BONAMASSA Black Rock [J&amp;R Adventures] On his 10th solo album, veteran guitar-slinger Joe Bonamassa reminds us right off the bat how he earned his reputation as one of the world\u2019s top blues-rock axemen\u2014opening with some heavy riffing and a raw-throated bellow with Bobby Parker\u2019s \u201cSteal Your Heart Away.\u201d Named after the Greek studio where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,314,315,313,271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}