Sloe Gin | 
| Artist: Joe Bonamassa
Label: Provogue
Category: Music
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Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 390
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
EAN: 8712725721826
ASIN: B000SN3W9A
Release Date: August 27, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Ball Peen Hammer | | • | One Of These Days | | • | Seagull | | • | Dirt In My Pocket | | • | Sloe Gin | | • | Another Kind Of Love | | • | Around The Bend | | • | Black Night | | • | Jelly Roll | | • | Richmond | | • | India |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In the liner notes of Sloe Gin, emerging guitar great Joe Bonamassa explains that one of his objectives is to experiment with acoustic elements he first encountered while listening to Rod Stewart's earliest work. "I think the heavy blues and acoustic mix well together," he writes, and the inviting variety of the disc's 11 tracks--from the rousing electric rave-up of the title track to the closing, tabla-propelled acoustic instrumental--persuasively underscores his point. Bonamassa is a major talent with a growing following, and as his fan base inevitably expands it may become difficult for him to keep everyone happy. Hardcore blues devotees no doubt will yearn for Bonamassa to stay perpetually plugged in, but in the long term that would be a disservice to his broad range of skills. Bonamassa rocks formidably and convincingly on "Dirt in My Pocket" (a bristling original composition), the title track (well suited for air guitar), and his Clapton-esque rendering of John Mayall's "Another Kind of Love." Yet his softer works suggest that he sounds a little more comfortable and natural--vocally, at least--on the acoustic tracks. His retooled version of "Around the Bend" (his first take on this original composition is found on an earlier release) is an engaging, pastoral gem, and his paean to his upstate New York home ("Richmond") is perhaps this disc's most memorable selection. Bonamassa knows the blues (at the time of this release, he was the youngest member on the board of the Blues Foundation), but he also knows how to rock and how to sagaciously, artfully ease off the gas. --Terry Wood
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 Breath of Fresh Air October 20, 2007
Grant Salisbury (UK)
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
I was beginning to despair with some of the recent music that I have heard. Then someone recommended Joe so I plumped for this album. Wish I had not done it as now I am going to have to buy all the others !! He is pure class. I love this album and it gets better every time I hear it. I thought when I first heard it that it was a bit like Bad Company ( No bad thing ) and then I heard the track 'Seagull'. Superbly done as a cover from Bad Company themselves. I will finish off by saying that if you like decent guitars, good vocals and good production, this is a superb example. Time to get my Christmas list together ...
Just buy it September 6, 2007
R. S. Stringer (staffordshire)
30 out of 32 found this review helpful
I have been a Bonamassa fan for about eighteen months now having discovered him through a review of his last album in the rock press. After purchasing the album, i ended up buying all the previous albums plus the live DVD at the Rockplast. I can honestly say that this is without doubt his best album. It is simply brilliant, Joe Bonamassa is surely destined for greatness. There isnt a bad track on the album, i highly recommend it to anyone who appreciates brilliant rock and blues guitar playing. This is my album of the year, just buy it you will not be disapointed.
A new day tomorrow July 23, 2007
Keith S. Jenkins (London, England)
26 out of 31 found this review helpful
Obviously not released yet, but I heard a couple of tracks on Planet Rock on Friday and they were stunning. 'One of these days' is an old Ten Years After tune and Joe handles it brilliantly, but the title track, 'Sloe Gin' is simply mind blowing! I wondered if I was over reacting, but then heard it again on Saturday and realised I wasn't!! A stunning, slow blues track that ends with a guitar solo that would make Gary Moore weep. Can't wait for August 20th.
Bully! September 17, 2007
Theo Loosevelte (Hyde Park)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
Indeed a gift to the musically thirsty! Includes free refills! I don't care what you call it, modern or throwback (retro), adult contemporary, rock, whatever. YOU be the judge! For me, like heck this isn't a great blues rock album! This one album, Joe Bonamassa's sixth studio release (seven total counting "A New Day Yesterday LIVE", which also was one of two outstanding DVD's, the other being "Live at Rockpalast"), his second with top-notch producer Kevin "Caveman" Shirley, who seems as high on Joe's talent as anyone these days, happens to be a cornucopia of blues-inflected rock stylings worthy of high praise and expenditure of your hard-earned, low net balance funds.
This is a "blues deluxe" album more so than the namesake album by Joe Bonamassa from 2003. That was more traditional style. This is mentored style blues perhaps, but it's also the most original blues album of the young century / millennium, brandishing in your face much more than Joe's biting guitar & amazingly soulful vocals, it's the real deal! A gift-wrapped package of delights, despite side trips through depressive states, for the ears and soul. It defies categorization and no description does justice. The whole album showcases the amazing talents of everyone involved. Not the same old same old anything, it's just a creative, living, breathing creature start to finish. A modernized, male-spirited version of something new, significant, rock & stroll, yet still beautiful. Even if it develops Sloe-ly, like trying to get a buzz off a watered-down sloe gin fizz, it's a four seasons, five stars, any frame of mind or mood listen you'll enjoy.
Don't look any further! December 14, 2009
Mr. M. Cass (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Have you ever bought an album and found that every track on it is of a consistently superlative quality?
Me neither!
That was, until I bought Sloe Gin by Joe Bonamassa!
Not only is it the best album I've bought this year, it's one of the best albums I've EVER bought (in over fifty years of collecting all types of music)!
The album is polished and professional and highlights a great developing talent. Bonamassa's playing is exciting and intense, in a way that I've not heard since we lost SRV.
This is a very gifted musician, who plays with the feel and the soul of someone who has many years of performing experience, not some young guitar slinger trying to make a name. Joe Bonamassa will be revered and remembered (and will still be making great music) long after "the fast twiddlers" have been forgotten.
The vocals are superb, as well! He has a soulful voice reminiscent, at times, of a young Paul Rodgers but at the same time it is a sound all his own and is very recognisable as such.
There is a range of musical styles, covering rock and blues and the overdriven sound he gets from his guitar, on Dirt In My Pocket is worth the price of the album alone!
There is some beautiful acoustic work on the album as well, as good as you'll get and much better, technically than many current guitarists (as long as we take maestro Tommy Emmanuel out of the equation).
Right - stop wasting time reading my review - go and buy the album and find out why I'm so impressed with it!
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