[ Closed ] review of Joe's new cd on Southwest Blues Magazine website.

Here's the review...

"Joe Bonamassa is able to stay out of any creative ruts when recording his work. When you think he has tapped everything, something else pours out of the keg. Such is the case with the recent release of You and Me. What Bonamassa accomplished on past efforts points in the direction of a sound infused with guitar work along the Peter Green and Jimmy Page vein.
This isn't some young shredder out to make a quick buck and radicalize the blues into a bitter taste. Working with bassist Carmine Rojas and drummer Jason Bonham (son of drummer Led Zeppelin's John Bonham), Bonamassa stays true to tradition without alienating some of the more conservative purists.
Uncovering chestnuts like "Your Funeral And My Trial" and "Tamp Em Up Solid" finds the guitarist owing much to Ry Cooper and Sonny Boy Williamson, as he does to Jimmy Page in covering the obscure Zeppelin track "Tea For One".
Tunes like Charley Patton's "High Water Everywhere" are given a fresh treatment and rock with authority. Instrumental "Palm Trees Helicopters and Gasoline" is Joe's salute to life in Los Angeles. An acoustic number that could find a home on a classic rock album by Yes with its intricate chording and lead structures.
In the CDs liner notes, Joe talks of pushing the envelope in his recording of blues music and never playing it too safe. Where others might want to keep the blues in a museum, Bonamassa makes it a priority to place the diamond in a bigger glass."
- Gary Weeks