Dust Bowl
by Joe Bonamassa

Album
Dust Bowl by Joe Bonamassa
Year: 2011
Release date: 2011-03-22
Overall rank: 7,495th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 41 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2011 (161st)
Award Top albums of of the 2010s (1,449th)
Award Best albums of all time (7,495th)

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Joe Bonamassa bestography

Dust Bowl is ranked as the best album by Joe Bonamassa.

Joe Bonamassa album bestography « Higher ranked
- This album (7,495th)
Dust Bowl Lower ranked (14,800th) »
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Dust Bowl rankings summary
Overall rank: 7,495th | 2010s rank: 1,449th | 2011 rank: 161st  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 41 votes)
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 !		05/07/2026 19:55 DanielNunes93  Ratings distribution  2,82061/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 12% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.4/100, a mean average of 73.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.


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Dust Bowl forum mentions

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From Johnnyo 02/06/2026 20:13 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
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From pedro1976 02/19/2023 20:33 in What album are you listening to right now?
“1643 I do like a bit of Joe. I thought that this was a little weak when I first got it but I have come to appreciate it more over the years. Nice pick PS - excellent live by the way. first listen to this one and it sounded good - I must have around 20 of his albums and so many of them I havent…”
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75/100
From 10/15/2025 22:15 | #311364 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
He really does deserve the plaudits thrown his way over the last about 20 years for basically being the new modern blues guitar king. He does blues well but with a lot of variety added. To start, you can hear many shades and similarities to how Stevie Ray Vaughn played. Mostly though, it's reminiscent of 'Still got the Blues' era Gary Moore. Lot of heavy toned blues on this (Edited)
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From 07/06/2015 20:48 | #145248 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Really good guitar on this album!
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From 03/30/2020 11:03 | #249296 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
One of JB's best.
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Cracking blues rock album. Smokin!
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From 09/03/2019 12:44 | #242157 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Very groovy album
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