Driving Towards the Daylight

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Driving Towards the Daylight
Joe Bonamassa Driving Towards the Daylight album cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 22, 2012
RecordedThe Palms, Las Vegas, NV; The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, CA; The Cave, Malibu, CA
Genre Blues rock
Length56:19 [1]
Label Provogue Records
J&R Records/Fontana
Producer Kevin Shirley
Joe Bonamassa chronology
Don't Explain
(2011)
Driving Towards the Daylight
(2012)
Beacon Theatre: Live From New York
(2012)
Professional ratings
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Driving Towards the Daylight is the tenth studio album by blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa, 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". [7] 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. [8]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Dislocated Boy" Joe Bonamassa 6:40
2."Stones in My Passway" (Originally recorded by Robert Johnson) Robert Johnson 3:58
3."Driving Towards the Daylight"Bonamassa, Danny Kortchmar 4:50
4."Who's Been Talking?" (Originally recorded by Howlin' Wolf) Chester Burnett 3:28
5."I Got All You Need" (Originally recorded by Koko Taylor) Willie Dixon 3:04
6."A Place in My Heart" (Originally recorded by Bernie Marsden) Bernie Marsden 6:48
7."Lonely Town Lonely Street" (Originally recorded by Bill Withers) Bill Withers 7:08
8."Heavenly Soul"Bonamassa5:55
9."New Coat of Paint" (Originally recorded by Tom Waits) Tom Waits 4:06
10."Somewhere Trouble Don't Go" (Originally recorded by Buddy Miller) Buddy Miller 4:59
11."Too Much Ain't Enough Love" (feat. Jimmy Barnes; originally recorded by Jimmy Barnes) Jimmy Barnes, Jonathan Cain, Neal Schon, Randy Jackson, Tony Brock 5:37
^† — erroneously listed as a Joe Bonamassa composition in the Driving Towards the Daylight CD booklet.

Personnel

Musicians

Additional musicians

Production

Chart performance

The album debuted at number 2 in the UK. [9] This constitutes the highest performance to date of a Joe Bonamassa album on a non-blues- or rock-specific chart. [10] In Canada, the album debuted at number 55. [11] In the U.S. the album debuted at number 1 on the Blues albums chart and number 23 on the Billboard 200.

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