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JOE BONAMASSA - BREAKTHROUGH
RELEASE DATE JULY 18, 2025. ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY!
Four-time Grammy-nominee Joe Bonamassa announces his 17th studio album, Breakthrough, produced by longtime partner Kevin Shirley. The album has 10 brand-new, original tracks written by Joe and co-writers like James House, Tom Hambridge, etc. Looking to "Breakthrough" the genre boxes and limitations put on him, Joe is ready to take his craft to the next level.
- 1 Breakthrough
- 2 Trigger Finger
- 3 I'll Take the Blame
- 4 Drive By the Exit Sign
- 5 Broken Record
- 6 Side B:
- 7 Shake This Ground
- 8 Still Walking with Me
- 9 Life After Dark
- 10 You Don't Own Me
- 11 Pain's on Me
JOE BONAMASSA
Breakthrough
J&R Adventures
Blues purists may argue guitarist-singer-songwriter Joe Bonamassa is too much rock and not enough blues, but the reality is, he’s been making traditional blues more accessible to the masses for some years now. After all, he’s been selling out theaters around the U.S., Canada, England, and other parts of Europe, often sharing stages with the original, less prominent blues musicians who inspired him in the first place.
This is Bonamassa’s 17th studio release. “Breakthrough” is the fast-paced title track here. It’s filled with some gutsy, venom-tipped “tasty” guitar playing, as my old friend Dr. John used to say. While he opens up with three numbers that are decidedly blues-rock – the title track is followed by “Trigger Finger” and the confessional “I’ll Take The Blame,” by mid-album, he slows things down with slower, drawn out straight-ahead blues tunes. “Drive By The Exit Sign,” seven minutes of slow blues on “Broken Record,” and “Still Walking With Me” are several tunes on Breakthrough about life on the road,
Together, Bonamassa, Kevin Shirley, and Roy Weisman seem to have come up with winning formulas, and with his relentless touring, email campaigns, and being good to his followers, Bonamassa is opening up doors for all kinds of less prominent blues people. All these career shots in the arm for those other performers he helps out is a good thing for the state of modern blues. It’s way past the time to get rid of these lingering stereotypes about blues being fundamentally sad music and bring in the rest of the people in the world who enjoy real, roots rock ‘n’ roll.
– Richard J. Skelly