Joe Bonamassa - Had to Cry Today
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Artist: Joe BonamassaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-08-24
Music Label: Premier Artists
Soundtracks:
- Never Make Your Move Too Soon
- Travellin' South
- Junction 61
- Reconsider Baby
- Around the Bend
- Revenge of the 10 Gallon Hat
- When She Dances
- Had to Cry Today
- The River
- When the Sun Goes Down
- Faux Mantini
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Free Music Review: Bonamassa Had to Cry Today
Hit: 5 Stars
August 26, 2004
Artist: Joe Bonamassa
Title: Had to Cry Today
Rating: Very Good
The national success of Joe Bonamassa can, to some extent, be credited Eastern Nebraska's growing presence on the national music scene. While much of our area's acclaim can be attributed to Robb Nansel and the bands on the Saddle Creek Record label, the area's commitment to live music, and specifically blues based music, is now beginning to bear fruit. True fans know this seed was planted in Lincoln's Zoo Bar and has since flourished in Omaha.
The integral relationships of radio, print & retail intertwining with the avid fans in the Omaha Blues Society has created a scene that has a proven ability to catapult an artist onto the national stage. Certainly Omaha's thrust is not self-sustaining but it sure can get some folks to pay attention.
Like Indigenous before him, Joe Bonamassa is the beneficiary of Omaha's love affair with his Brit-based blistering electric blues. Regular readers of this column will note the Joe's previous album was my `Blues Album of the Year' in '03. So it was with eager anticipation that I threw on his latest effort.
He's clearly changed direction a bit; more rock and less blues. Within this genre I hear no player that supercedes Bonamassa's ability to drive home a great electric riff striking to the heart of the sound without over-playing or being cliche. Bonamassa left the ego at the door to write a smattering of the songs that blend with songs written by others. To put a sharper point on it, this album is not a collection of songs strung together: instead it a one piece of art that is composed of eleven tracks, much the way I remember my favorite albums being done.
While "great" is few and far between, there are three, and you can quote me on this, GREAT songs on this incredibly strong album including the seventh track, When She Dances. A slow ballad that is virtually guitar free, Bonamassa's ability to vocally emote an emotion in song is locked in here. Gregg Allman like in his delivery Joe should have a commercial hit here. (Will radio "get" it? Not unless they pay someone too much money to tell them it's good.)
To my blues ear, the fourth track, Reconsider Baby, a cover of Lowell Fulsom, is the near perfect `sound' that most modern electric blues fans crave; soaring solos in a minor key with extended vocal notes and very B. B. King like. ANY fan of the late Stevie Ray Vaughan will immediately get this song.
The third GREAT song on this album, The River, is not a Springsteen cover. Opening with National Steel guitar plucking, Bonamassa quickly winds this song into a fresh blast that harkens to the sound that made Brit-Rock in the late `60's so cool.
What Bonamassa understands, and what separates him from other blues players, is pacing. His albums are jam packed with sonic texture and the listener is not subjected to the "same song" for thirty minutes. While Joe's guitar playing is quite capable of `blowing the doors off any old jalopy' instead he chooses to employ clever licks, breathing space, and good taste.
This is an excellent record that could very well break this artist onto the next stage that his career so richly deserves
Had to Cry Today Poster
Guitar hero Bonamassa may have dropped the "Smokin'" prefix from his performing name that he carried as a teenager, but he still specializes in superheated fret work. And for him, the faster it is, the better. Bonamassa sought to showcase the "heavier side of blues" on his fourth studio recording, emphasizing the approach used by the classic English blues-rockers. And he does just that with a hyperactive "Travellin' South" that Ten Years After would have been proud to claim and a hard-edged remake of the B.B. King hit "Never Make Your Move Too Soon". The title track, a Blind Faith favorite, is transformed into a frenetic live jam while Lowell Fulson's "Reconsider Baby", a staple of Bonamassa's live show, is given an extended workout and features some of his most potent blues licks. Sometimes Bonamassa is in too much of a hurry for his own good, but his penchant for speed works especially well on a couple of instrumentals. He races through "Revenge of the 10 Gallon Hat", a country-flavored tribute to mentor Danny Gatton, and the rapid-fire, Al Di Meola-influenced closer "Faux Mantini." --Michael PointBlues Music CDs
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