Bloodline
Bloodline


Tracks:

1. Stone Cold Hearted
2. Dixie Peach
3. Cell Block 7
4. Storm [Instrumental]
5. The Good Luck You’re Having
6. Honest Crime
7. So Far Away
8. Calling Me Back
9. Bad Girls
10. Since You’re Gone
11. Trouble Is My Business
12. Get off Your Back

Line up:

Berry Oakley Jr - vocals, bass
Erin Davis - drums
Lou Segreti - keyboards
Joe Bonamassa - lead guitar
Waylon Krieger - rhythm guitar
Joe Lynn Turner - background vocals (tracks 2,7,8)

Record Label / Year of Release:

Varèse Sarabande/Capitol 1994

Notes:

Bloodline was an American blues rock band composed of the sons of several well-known rock musicians. It was also guitarist Joe Bonamassa's first band (he was billed as "Smokin' Joe Bonamassa").

Bloodline signed to Varèse Sarabande/Capitol in 1994 and released one self-titled album. The group's members were drummer Erin Davis (son of Miles Davis), rhythm guitarist Waylon Krieger (son of Robby Krieger), and bassist and lead vocalist Berry Oakley, Jr. (son of Berry Oakley), along with Bonamassa, whose parents were musicians, though not famous. For the keyboard parts, the band called veteran keyboard player Lou Segreti. Warren Haynes made a guest appearance on the album.

The record produced one hit single, "Stone Cold Hearted", which reached #32 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The group split shortly after the release of the record, immediately following a tour opening for Tesla and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

JLT about the Bloodline album: Well, my co-producer and co-writer Bob Held, I guess Joe got in touch with him. Actually it was the Bloodline management. We were brought onboard, and flew up to Utica, New York, where Joe came from. We stayed up there for two weeks the first time, started writing songs, and whatever. Then, as ego would have it, Berry Oakley Jr. started getting all pissed off, he wanted his songs, and everybody wanted their songs, this and that. Joe was kind of a baby at that point, and was just looking at us. We had a couple of great songs, like "Honest Crime" and a few others off the 'Bloodline' album. To make a long story short, that's how I met Joe.