Dust Bowl (album)

Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl
Studio album by Joe Bonamassa
Released	March 22, 2011
Studio	Black Rock Studios (Santorini, Greece) ; Ben’s Studio (Nashville, TN) ; The Cave (Malibu, CA) ; The Village Recorder (Los Angeles, CA)
Genre	Blues rock
Length	63:00
Label	J&R Adventures
Producer	Kevin Shirley
Joe Bonamassa chronology

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.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Slow Train"	Joe Bonamassa, Kevin Shirley	6:49
2.	"Dust Bowl"	Bonamassa	4:33
3.	"Tennessee Plates" (ft. John Hiatt; John Hiatt cover)	John Hiatt, John Porter	4:18
4.	"The Meaning of the Blues" (Often mistakenly listed as a Bobby Troup cover, but this is an original JB song.)	Bonamassa	5:44
5.	"Black Lung Heartache"	Bonamassa	4:14
6.	"You Better Watch Yourself" (Little Walter cover)	Bonamassa, Walter Jacobs	3:30
7.	"The Last Matador of Bayonne"	Bonamassa	5:23
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"	Bonamassa	4:46
11.	"Sweet Rowena" (ft. Vince Gill)	Vince Gill, Pete Wasner	4:34
12.	"Prisoner" (Barbra Streisand cover)	John Desautels, Karen Lawrence	6:48
Total length:			63:00

Joe Bonamassa – guitars, vocals (all tracks); tzouras, baglama and slide bouzouki (tracks 2, 5); mandolin (track 10)
Carmine Rojas – bass (tracks 1-2, 4-9, 12)
Anton Fig – drums (tracks 1-2, 4-9, 12); percussion (tracks 2, 5); Hammer guitar (track 5); shaker (track 9)
Rick Melick – organ (tracks 1-2, 4-8, 12); piano, tambourine (tracks 2, 5-7, 12); synthesizers (track 4), accordion (track 5)
Peter Van Weelden – spoken word (track 2)
John Hiatt – vocals (track 3)
Vince Gill – guitar (tracks 3, 11); vocals (track 11)
Michael Rhodes – bass (tracks 3, 10-11)
Chad Cromwell – drums (tracks 3, 10-11)
Steve Nathan – Hammond organ (track 3); piano (tracks 3, 11)
Tony Cedras – trumpet (track 7)
Glenn Hughes – vocals (track 8)
Arlan Schierbaum – Hammond organ (track 9)
Blondie Chaplin – guitar (track 9)
Beth Hart – vocals (track 9)
Reese Wynans – Hammond organ, piano (track 10)
Kevin Shirley – production

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 for *Dust Bowl*
Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)^[19]	Silver	60,000^‡
^‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.