When Black Country Communion came to an end, two of its members, Glenn Hughes and Jason Bonham, decided they wanted to carry on working together. Rather than simply finding a guitarist to act as a replacement for Joe Bonamassa they decided to start a new band and take a new musical direction. They named theWhen Black Country Communion came to an end, two of its members, Glenn Hughes and Jason Bonham, decided they wanted to carry on working together. Rather than simply finding a guitarist to act as a replacement for Joe Bonamassa they decided to start a new band and take a new musical direction. They named the band California Breed and recruited an unknown guitarist (Andrew Watt) to join them. They've kept the lineup as a trio rather than the more common 4 or 5 piece band, and that's a decision I think has really paid off. The three-piece lineup works superbly well. Whereas in some bands with 4 or 5 members, part of the time you can barely hear any input from a particular band member, here they've stripped the band down to the bare essentials – guitar, bass, drums and vocals, with all the parts playing an important role throughout the album. With some musicians after a long career they become fairly predictable – you know for instance that Ian Anderson's next album will still sound pretty much like a Jethro Tull album, but with Glenn Hughes the only predictable thing is that the next album will sound nothing like [...]
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