Driving Towards the Daylight

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Released May 22, 2012 Artist Joe Bonamassa Label Provogue Records Genre Blues rock		Length 56:19 Release date 22 May 2012 Producer Kevin Shirley

Recorded The Palms, Las Vegas, NV; The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, CA; The Cave, Malibu, CA Driving Toward the Daylight (2012) Beacon Theatre Live From New York (2012) Similar Joe Bonamassa albums, Blues rock albums

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Driving Towards the Daylight is the tenth studio album by blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa. It was released on May 22, 2012. Recorded at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles, CA and Studio at the Palms in Las Vegas, NV, Driving Towards the Daylight is a balanced and "back-to-basics album that highlights Bonamassa’s signature style of blues, roots, and rock & roll". Driving Towards the Daylight was produced by Kevin “Caveman” Shirley (Black Crowes, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin), making this Bonamassa and Shirley’s seventh album collaboration in six years.

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Track listing

^† — erroneously listed as a Joe Bonamassa composition in the Driving Towards the Daylight CD booklet.

Musicians

Joe Bonamassa – guitar (all tracks), vocals (all tracks except 11), Dobro (track 1), mandolin (track 8), backing vocals (track 11)

Anton Fig – drums and percussion (all tracks)

Arlan Schierbaum – organ (all tracks except 2), piano (tracks 2, 3, 7, 10 and 11)

Kevin Shirley – guitar (tracks 2 and 6), tambourine (tracks 4 and 7), toy piano (track 1), cowbell (track 10), percussion (track 11)

Brad Whitford – guitar (tracks 1-4, 7, 9 and 11)

Michael Rhodes – bass (tracks 1-4, 7, 9 and 11)

Doug Henthorn – backing vocals (tracks 1, 3, 8, 10 and 11)

Carmine Rojas – bass (tracks 5, 6, 8 and 10)

Blondie Chaplin – guitar (tracks 5, 6 and 8)

Additional musicians

Harrison Whitford – guitar (track 3)

Jeff Bova and The Bovaland Brass – horns (track 6)

Pat Thrall – guitar (track 7)

Jimmy Barnes – vocals (track 11)

Production

Kevin Shirley – producer, mixing.

Mark Gray – engineering (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9 and 11)

Chris Owens – engineering (tracks 5, 6, 8 and 10)

Jared Kvitka – additional engineering

Leon Zervos – mastering

Marcus Sweeney-Bird – photography, film director

Dennis Friel – design, illustrations

Rick Gould – photographer

Chart performance

The album debuted at number 2 in the UK. This constitutes the highest performance to date of a Joe Bonamassa album on a non blues- or rock-specific chart. In Canada, the album debuted at number 55. In the U.S. the album debuted at number 1 on the Blues albums chart and number 23 on the Billboard 200.

Songs

1Dislocated Boy6:40
2Stones in My Passway3:58
3Driving Towards The Daylight4:50

References

Driving Towards the Daylight Wikipedia

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