“They always try to write off the blues; well we’ve proven tonight that at least 9,000 people like the blues,” said celebrated blues rock master Joe Bonamassa, who releases his highly anticipated ‘Joe Bonamassa - Muddy Wolf At Red Rocks.’

The exclusive concert experience tributing blues legends Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf was recorded at Red Rocks Amphitheater over Labor Day weekend in 2014. Carved into the bedrock of Colorado’s majestic Rocky Mountains, the famed amphitheater sets the stage for Bonamassa’s fiery delivery of bluesy guitar-wailing and horn-filled tunes honoring the two Blues greats. Playing to a sold-out crowd of 9,000 fans, this marks the biggest show of Bonamassa’s career, a major milestone for the bluesman.

Unlike any Bonamassa show before, ‘Muddy Wolf’ marks the start of a tribute concert series that will display a different band and catalog of material that will vary from Bonamassa’s music as a solo artist. For ‘Muddy Wolf,’ songs were carefully selected from the catalogs of Howlin’ Wolf, one of Chicago’s most influential bluesmen, known for his deep, scratchy voice, and Muddy Waters, considered the “father of modern Chicago blues.” Waters was a major inspiration for the British blues explosion of the 1960’s, a genre that has heavily influenced Bonamassa’s original music throughout his career.

The concert features a lineup of players different from Bonamassa’s touring band, dubbed the “Muddy Wolf Band” which includes Anton Fig (drums), Michael Rhodes (bass), Reese Wynans (piano, Hammond organ), Lee Thornburg (trumpet, horn arrangements), Ron Dziubla (saxophone), Nick Lane (trombone), Mike Henderson (harmonica), and Kirk Fletcher (guitar).

Of the experience, a humbled and grateful Bonamassa said, “‘Inspired’ was the feeling that permeated the camp from the very downbeat. It was the gig of a lifetime for me. What you see on this DVD is what it was like to play in front of the largest audience of my career, playing music that I loved, love, and fell in love with again in a much bigger way than I had before.”

Track listing:

1. We Went Down to the Mississippi Delta… (Live)

2. Muddy Waters Talking (Live)

3. Tiger In Your Tank (Live)

4. I Can’t Be Satisfied (Live)

5. You Shook Me (Live)

6. Stuff You Gotta Watch (Live)

7. Double Trouble (Live)

8. Real Love (Live)

9. My Home Is On the Delta (Live)

10. All Aboard (Live)

11. Howlin’ Wolf Talking (Live)

12. How Many More Years (Live)

13. Shake for Me (Live)

14. Hidden Charms (Live)

15. Spoonful (Live)

16. Killing Floor (Live)

17. Evil (Is Going On) [Live]

18. All Night Boogie (All Night Long) [Live]

19. Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) [Live]

20. Oh Beautiful! (Live)

21. Love Ain’t a Love Song (Live)

22. Sloe Gin (Live)

23. The Ballad of John Henry (Live)

24. Mississippi Heartbeat (Opening Title) [Live]

25. Muddy Wolf (Credits) [Live]