Chords for Joe Bonamassa - Blues Of Desperation - Album Trailer

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This record is very different for me in the
sense that it's the first record since I started making solo records.
I didn't use a Marshall amp.
Used all Tweed Fender amps and forced myself to get the same sounds that I've always heard
and always delivered through other means, you know?
And I plugged basically straight into the amps and used these and different tools to
get different sounds. _
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_ _ _ [E] _ [Cm] just [F] turned 38 years old and been [G] making solo records [E] for 15 years and [F] decided that
I [G] can't just keep using the same playbook.
I can't just keep using it.
It's like, you know, and I have to challenge myself and start a new book.
I'd rather make less records that were all original but wait for the good songs to come around.
There are acoustic tracks, there are very big bombastic Zeppelin style tracks, [D] there's
traditional blues tracks.
One of the things that I really wanted to have on this album was I wanted to experiment
with two drummers playing.
And I wanted to try and make it a real rhythmical powerhouse behind Joe playing and I wanted
to cut everything without keyboards.
It was really about getting some more aggression out of Joe and having him be quite vital.
He had a very specific vision for [Dm] this album [D] that, truth be told, he had not heard any
of the material.
_ But I think, truth be told, he may have known his vision to try to poke me to go in that
direction and everything worked out.
It was almost like all this foresight.
It's a record of total foresight.
I brought guitars that I had not brought for many, many records and never would have thought to bring.
I brought them.
And I ended up being very specific and superstars to songs that weren't written when they were
packed in the case.
Kevin goes, he committed to two [N] drums and Michael and I go over to a four piece with
two drummers and basically a power quartet without hearing one song.
[E] But before you know it, all this stuff just kind of came in and went, well this makes
a lot of sense for two drums.
This makes a lot of sense for the power drum.
This makes a lot of sense.
And everything just kind of, [Em] it was a happy accident of _ [Bb] converging _ _ instruments, layouts,
band members, studio, producer.
Everything worked out on this one.
And I've been in the opposite, you know, I've been told in the opposite situation where
it didn't work out.
You know, and you're looking at each other like, what are we going to do here, you know?
It was tough.
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_ I'm just a poor man working day by day.
_ Life's been a struggle, there's a mountain in my way. _
So strap your boots [E] on, get ready for that [D] first step. _
The uphill battle ain't even started yet.
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_ Chances [E] you'll find me. _
[Eb] _ Out in the [D] fields, _ _ _ [G] _
found in [D] my hands.
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Drill stone and steel, [A] _ _ _ done my best job.
[Bb] _ _ [A] Nothin' to hide in, [G] nothin' to cry on.
_ Oh, [D] it's trouble I got on.
_ Nothin' to hide in, _ [G] nothin' to cry [A] on.
Oh, _ I'm losing the [D] fight on.
It's been a mountain to climb, you know, and a year of any [Dm] mountain to climb.
But I sit here [Dm] at the end of it all, very grateful for the work, very grateful for the
people who worked on it, and if I had to do it all over again, I would do it in a minute.
I'd totally do it in a minute. _
_ Wind and the [D] rain, gonna push you around.
[C] Hard times trying to break [D] you, don't ever let them back you down.
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