I Want To Shout About It — BONAMASSA

The blues rock legend JOE BONAMASSA is back with a brand-new single from his eagerly awaited new studio album, due later this year on his J&R Adventures label.

Joe performs a mesmerising cover of “I Want To Shout About It,” which was originally recorded by “Speakeasy” Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, a Queen’s New York blues-elder statesman that’s never before properly celebrated until this cover treatment.

This piece sparkles like a Redbird Flushing railcar glittering in the rain as it heads out to old Hell’s Kitchen…

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Reese Wynans on organ and Paulie Cerra on sax provide solos for Bonamassa’s upbeat rendition of the number, which also includes some excellent voice improvisationals from Dannielle DeAndrea and Charles Jones as the song reaches an apotheosis.

Bonamassa called upon his close friend, band-mate, guitarist and co-producer Josh Smith (Eric Gales, Joanna Connor, Joanne Shaw Taylor) to produce the track.

Smith recalls: “Shout About It is a song originally by the great Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters with Darrel Nullisch on vocals. It’s a tough/high song to sing and Joe really pushed himself and nailed it. It’s a real rave up, a party song. Joe has been playing it live lately and the crowds are really digging it!”

This piece sparkles like a Redbird Flushing railcar glittering in the rain as it heads out to old Hell’s Kitchen. And Bonamassa’s boogaloo guitar is hang baggy on the girders of elevated upright rhythms, so this becomes a consolidation of comfortable convivial style & supersleek musical arrangement.

It’s worth adding that Joe’s voice on the number has all the spokeshaved rasp that any stalwart blues connoisseur would want from a demonstrative (but never mushy) vocal execution: and it compares favourably with the original vocal, by Darrell Nulisch. Add-in the superfat sax and the sexy-sluicy keyboarad magic and this could be Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes (though with SRV playing the guitar!) In other words, a manifestly impeccable slice of classic blues.

Photo credit Adam Kennedy