It’s a sign of Joe Bonamassa’s increasing profile that he got blues legend B.B. King to guest on his eighth album Black Rock -- and if what you’re doing is good enough to rope B.B. in, there’s not much reason to change, so Bonamassa doesn’t tinker with his formula here, retaining a little of the folky undertow of The Ballad of John Henry, but with its remaining roots in a thick, heavy blues-rock more redolent of ‘60s London than the ‘50s Delta.

Track Listing
1 Steal Your Heart Away
2 I Know a Place
3 When the Fire Hits the Sea
4 Quarryman's Lament
5 Spanish Boots
6 Bird on a Wire
7 Three Times a Fool
8 Night Life
9 Wandering Earth
10 Look Over Yondrs Wall
11 Athens to Athens
12 Blue and Evil
13 Baby You Gotta Change Your Mind