Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa Don t Explain ( clear vinyl LP )

Release date 29-09-2021 ( original in 2011)

2021 reissue 180g clear vinyl LP

Collaboration between Los Angeles based singer/songwriter Beth Hart and Blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa.

Produced by Kevin Shirley (Joe Bonamassa, Led Zeppelin, Black Crowes), the album features Hart's interpretations of 10 soulful Blues songs, with Bonamassa on guitar and his ace band filling out the tracks.

Beth collaborated with Bonamassa and Shirley on choosing songs, and the final set list features numbers made famous by artists including Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Bill Withers, Ray Charles, Delaney & Bonnie, Tom Waits, Etta James and others.

Tracks
A1 Sinners Prayer
A2 Chocolate Jesus
A3 Your Heart Is As Black As Night
A4 For My Friend
A5 I'd Rather Go Blind

B1 Don't Explain
B2 Something's Got A Hold On Me
B3 I'll Take Care Of You
B4 Well, Well
B5 Ain't No Way

Los Angeles based singer-songwriter Beth Hart, known for her raw and powerful blues-rock sound, wraps her expressive vocals around classic soul cover album Don’t Explain - a collection that grew out of her friendship with blues-rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa.

Produced by Kevin Shirley (Led Zeppelin, Black Crowes, Aerosmith), the album features Hart’s interpretations of ten soulful blues songs, with Bonamassa on guitar and his ace band filling out the tracks. Cuts like “I’ll Take Care Of You” hijacked BBC Radio 2’s playlists and the UK’s Classic Rock magazine included the release in its Top Albums of 2011.

"Like Jeff Buckley at his most transcendent, and sounding like Janis Joplin reincarnated with Stevie Nicks’s high-speed vibrato, Hart turned the act of singing into an out-of-body experience, something both intensely physical and tangibly metaphysical.” – Slant Magazine