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 HOW CAN HE DO THAT??? Jan 09, 2010
This was my first (but not my last) Joe Bonamassa CD!! OMG!!! I could play this for days at a time and not get weary of hearing his blues' guitar & voice. Seriously, if you have ever been curious about the blues, start here!! Look no further for one of the best bands in the business!! Everyone in this band is top-notch!!!
Great Blues/Rock Oct 13, 2009
Great CD from one of Rocks lesser know artists. If you are a Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn fan with some Paul Rodgers or Warran Haynes sounding vocals this is a CD for you.
huge improvement in the vocals Jul 17, 2009
The vocals, the vocals, they count too! Something that nobody seems to be addressing in the reviews is the "ginormous" improvement Joe makes in the vocals on Sloe Gin. I really had lost interest in his work because the vocals were so strained. THAT IS ALL GONE IN SLOE GIN! I'm back in the fold!!!
Now if i can just get past the vocals in the other albums. Just bought Blues Deluxe because the guitar work is so good i don't care about the vocals!!
a little different, but still a great album!!. Mar 13, 2009
I've been reading some of the other reviews and have come to the conclusion that people don't like change. Joe's playing is as great as ever. Can you imagine an artist performing the same 10 songs for 30 years? Good musicians change direction and experiment from time to time. That's what makes them great!.
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 The Bonamassa experiment Feb 23, 2009
How's that for a neutral title?
I almost didn't write this review, because Mr "db" from Salem has already written most of what I was thinking. Read his review if you haven't already.
And another reviewer made a pun on the word "Sloe" in the title, meaning that this music is "slow", so that one's been taken as well. Guess I'll have to see what I can come up with, then.
As noted in the editorial review, Joe Bonamassa makes a reference to Rod Stewart's late-60s folk-rock records, saying that "heavy blues and acoustics mix well together". And...well, now don't go thinking that he is in any way emulating Rod the Mod here, 'cause this is a whole different animal. But he is right, you know, blues and rock do mix well with acoustic elements if you know how to combine them right.
The trouble is that no matter how meticulously thought-out your arrangements are, it won't get you very far if the songs don't hold up. And to me, the songs on "Slow Gin" don't hold up. Far from it, in fact. Sure, there are a few good songs here, and none of them are actually bad, in fact. But none of them are really terrific either; they get bogged down in these oh-so-meticulously constructed part electric, part acoustic arrangements, lacking groove, lacking hooks, lacking character, lacking that special something that Bonamassa's best songs used to have.
I'm sorry, Joe, I think you're great, and your playing is exquisite, but this album is just plain boring. It's as though Joe Bonamassa and producer Kevin Shirley got so caught up in the idea of making this half-acoustic-half-electric record that they forgot about the songs. Sometimes when you get an idea that you really, really like, you know, you'll apply it to absolutely everything, and that seems to be what Joe Bonamassa did here, applying his new semi-acoustic formula to this album and sorta forgetting about the songs themselves. I didn't want to give less than three stars, because then people would have just though that I had some personal grudge against Mr Bonamassa and not bothered to read a word of this, but it's really only two and a half at most.
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