Dust Bowl (album)

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Dust Bowl
Bonamasa Dust Bowl Cover.jpg
Studio album by
Joe Bonamassa
ReleasedMarch 22, 2011 (2011-03-22)
StudioBlack Rock Studios (Santorini, Greece)
Ben’s Studio (Nashville, TN)
The Cave (Malibu, CA)
The Village Recorder (Los Angeles, CA) [1]
Genre Blues rock
Length63:00
Label J&R Adventures
Producer Kevin Shirley
Joe Bonamassa chronology
Black Rock
(2010)		Dust Bowl
(2011)		 Don't Explain
(2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Premier Guitar Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [3]

Dust Bowl is the ninth studio album by blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa. It was released worldwide on March 22, 2011. [4] The cover art is based on a famous 1936 photograph by Arthur Rothstein.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Slow Train" Joe Bonamassa, Kevin Shirley 6:49
2."Dust Bowl"Bonamassa4:33
3."Tennessee Plates" (ft. John Hiatt; John Hiatt cover)John Hiatt, John Porter4:18
4."The Meaning of the Blues" (Often mistakenly listed as a Bobby Troup cover, but this is an original JB song.)Bonamassa5:44
5."Black Lung Heartache"Bonamassa4:14
6."You Better Watch Yourself" (Little Walter cover)Bonamassa, Walter Jacobs 3:30
7."The Last Matador of Bayonne"Bonamassa5:23
8."Heartbreaker" (ft. Glenn Hughes; Free cover) Paul Rodgers 5:49
9."No Love on the Street" (Tim Curry cover)Tim Curry, Michael Kamen 6:32
10."The Whale That Swallowed Jonah"Bonamassa4:46
11."Sweet Rowena" (ft. Vince Gill)Vince Gill, Pete Wasner4:34
12."Prisoner" (Barbra Streisand cover)John Desautels, Karen Lawrence 6:48
Total length:63:00

Personnel

Charts

Charts (2011)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [5] 32
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [6] 39
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [7] 53
Danish Albums (Hitlisten) [8] 31
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [9] 12
French Albums (SNEP) [10] 115
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [11] 10
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [12] 7
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [13] 27
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [14] 17
UK Albums (OCC) [15] 12
US Billboard 200 [16] 37
US Top Blues Albums (Billboard) [17] 1
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [18] 7

Certifications

Certifications for Dust Bowl
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [19] Silver60,000Double-dagger-14-plain.png

Double-dagger-14-plain.png Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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