{"id":8504,"date":"2013-01-02T13:57:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T20:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8504"},"modified":"2013-01-02T14:00:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T21:00:44","slug":"black-country-communion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/01\/black-country-communion\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Luminaries from the rock world find their own chemistry together \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Black Country Communion\u2019s\u00a0latest record, Afterglow<\/em>, wasn\u2019t even out when reports began flying that tension between singer and bassist Glenn Hughes and guitarist Joe Bonamassa could mean the end of the hard-rock supergroup. But in no time the dustup was quelled. \u201cWe\u2019re really good friends,\u201d Hughes says. \u201cIt was just a small blip there for a moment, but we\u2019re all back on track, and long may it continue.\u201d<\/p>\n

The album is the third that Hughes and Bonamassa have recorded with drummer Jason Bonham and keyboardist Derek Sherinian. It\u2019s full of relentless riffs on songs showcasing sinewy, powerful vocals from Hughes, who fronted Deep Purple in the \u201970s and sang with Tony Iommi in the \u201980s, and has maintained a prolific solo career for decades. In fact, after releasing BCC albums in 2010 and 2011, Hughes intended Afterglow<\/em> to be a solo release. \u201cI thought after doing two albums it would be best for me to do another project,\u201d Hughes says. \u201cI haven\u2019t made a record in five years on my own, so I started to write what was\u00a0going to be a Glenn album.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, producer Kevin Shirley convinced Hughes to make a BCC album, along with a live DVD. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty crazy,\u201d says Hughes. \u201cAt this point in my life, I thought I\u2019d slow down a bit. I\u2019m not really great at multitasking, so I ended up concentrating on this band and fell in love with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group came together in 2009 after Hughes and Bonamassa jammed onstage at the NAMM music trade show in California, then recruited Bonham and Sherinian. Together, they comprised a band dedicated to a hard-rock sound that wasn\u2019t exactly in vogue at the time. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t like we were following a trend,\u201d says Hughes, who had released the soul-funk album\u00a0First Underground Nuclear Kitchen<\/em> the year before BCC formed. \u201cI had a dream about six months before we started making the first album that I would be\u00a0making rock music again.\u201d<\/p>\n

The musicians have translated their respect for one another\u2019s work into a collaborative chemistry that allows them to work especially fast in the studio. \u201cJoe calls it the comet,\u201d says Hughes, who wrote the bulk of the tunes. \u201cWe go over the song and then we cut it. There\u2019s no rehearsing, no preproduction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether the members of Black Country Communion can find time to tour in 2013 is a secondary consideration, according to Hughes. The first is a bond that is \u201clike family,\u201d he says. \u201cDeep down inside, it really is about music. That\u2019s what\u00a0brought us together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n

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BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION\u00a0 \u00a0 Luminaries from the rock world find their own chemistry together \u00a0 Black Country Communion\u2019s\u00a0latest record, Afterglow, wasn\u2019t even out when reports began flying that tension between singer and bassist Glenn Hughes and guitarist Joe Bonamassa could mean the end of the hard-rock supergroup. But in no time the dustup was quelled. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[5726,5725,2530,5728,5727,2332,313,2823,5475],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504"}],"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=8504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8507,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504\/revisions\/8507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}