Sloe Gin

There’s blues-rock for rowdy roadhouse escapades and blues-rock for nights when grim loneliness plagues the soul. *Sloe Gin* is the latter. Restricting his searing electric guitar work to the occasional accent, Joe Bonamassa leans on his acoustic for a batch of tunes that reveal his talents as an introspective storyteller. In terms of sheer pain and vulnerability, the record unloads some seriously heavy moments, like when Bonamassa cries, \"I’m so damn lonely, and I ain’t even high\" on the stunning title track.

For his seventh studio album, guitar wiz Joe Bonamassa has chosen to work again with producer Kevin Shirley, who produced the highly successful and huge-sounding You & Me for Bonamassa in 2006.