Topic: Sloe Gin Amazon Review
Good Day! I am not asking for high 5's, this is about Joe Bonamassa and Sloe Gin, just wondering whether you feel this is a good enough review to leave as is on Amazon.com... I've never put a review on Amazon before this, and the first version was very short. It's (***UPDATE-NOT ***) there now, but before I edited it, only 2 out of 7 found it helpful. Do you, or would you find it curiously helpful now?
..Oh, he's drifted from the blues, he was better with the power trio, this doesn't suck, he can do better, why's he doing covers, hot solos lacking, not up to par, disappointment, disappointment, disappointment? What the heck? Who says we get to determine what someone should do? How can you be critical of someone like you are their parent and know what's best for them? How can one or two lie and imply most fans hope Joe switches producers when they mostly look forward eagerly to continuing with the producer for a live product(not disclosed if it'll be another live DVD, quite possibly though) which will further the desire to continue with him? Ignore the agendas of the minority who seek to discredit all things this great talent lays on the public. Fans of Joe Bonamassa, and they are becoming legion, come from the top eschelons of music business & talent, down to average people tired of castor oil music forced upon them, to just plain everyday folks with age ranges from children to seniors! 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! So there's less guitar pyro. So there are covers. That's a blue tradition anyway. Remember the argument in The Blues Brothers whether John Lee Hooker wrote Boom Boom? No? Only shows you don't listen as well as you hear. So you like another lineup. Get real. If you want to criticize, do it objectively! 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. Are these Joe's dark thoughts? Visions of his bright yet distant hopes? Possibly both? All at once? Listen and guess. Analyze Sloe Gin in any way to the Nth degree! This one showcases more than Joe's biting guitar & amazingly soulful vocals, it's the whole real deal package, a wrapped Christmas present. The whole album showcases the amazing talents of everyone involved, excepting Bonamassa's tour drummer Bogie Bowles, who only plays on the title track. But no fear, he has an astounding drum solo slot in the live show to support my case. ...Rick Melick stands out, by...not standing out yet his contributions are of the highest order. This album is indeed a gift to the musically thirsty! Not the same old same old anything, it's just a creative, living, breathing creature start to finish. A better way of those crappy feelings, creeping away somehow, indeed! A modernized, male-spirited version of something significant and beautiful. Like Carole King's quadruple Grammy winning "Tapestry" was back in 1971. If you listened well to her songs and presentation of them, you got it. This one happens to be a cornucopia of blues-inflected rock stylings worthy of high praise and expenditure of your hard-earned, low net balance funds. 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, a Gin and again...and your kids and parents may also.......decades from now.
Especially want to know if you feel it's appropriate for offsetting some of the the other (not the objective ones, the silly / asinine ones) reviews. Plus, I want it to help create possible sales most of all! Bring it please!
Rock On & Keep the Faith,
Rocket
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