Honkin' on Bobo

Infobox Album |
Name = Honkin' on Bobo
Type = Cover album
Artist = Aerosmith


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Released = 30 March 2004
Recorded = 2003 at The Boneyard, The Bryer Patch, Pandora's Box
Genre = Hard rock, blues-rock
Length = 43:57
Label = Columbia
Producer = Jack Douglas, Marti Frederiksen, Joe Perry, Steven Tyler
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:g96ktr3tklmx~T1 Review]
*Entertainment.ie Rating|3|5 [http://www.entertainment.ie/reviews/review.asp?ID=3213&subcat=CD Review]
*Rolling Stone Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/5153977/honkin_on_bobo Review]
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Chronology =
Last album = "Just Push Play"
(2001)
This album = "Honkin' on Bobo"
(2004)
Next album =
Misc = Singles
Name = Honkin' on Bobo
Type = cover
Single 1 = Baby, Please Don't Go
Single 1 date = 2004

"Honkin' on Bobo" is the fourteenth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 2004 (see 2004 in music). The album includes eleven covers and one original track titled "The Grind". The limited edition version includes a harmonica keychain. The sound reflects Aerosmith's blues-based influences and showcases a rawer sound (reminiscent of their 1970s heyday) compared to their recent commercial efforts and was also produced by Jack Douglas, who was Aerosmith's producer on a vast majority of their 1970s' output.

Reaching # 5 on The Billboard 200, "Honkin' on Bobo" has sold 590,000 units in the U.S. as of October 2006, having been certified gold.

Track listing

#"Road Runner" (Bo Diddley) – 3:46
#"Shame, Shame, Shame" (Ruby Fisher, Kenyon Hopkins) – 2:15, originally sung by Smiley Lewis
#"Eyesight to the Blind" (Sonny Boy Williamson II) – 3:10
#"Baby, Please Don't Go" (Big Joe Williams) – 3:24
#"Never Loved a Girl" (Ronny Shannon) – 3:12
#"Back Back Train" (Fred McDowell) – 4:24
#"You Gotta Move" (Rev. Gary Davis, McDowell) – 5:30
#"The Grind" (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Marti Frederiksen) – 3:47
#"I'm Ready" (Willie Dixon) – 4:15
#"Temperature" (Joel Michael Cohen, Little Walter) – 2:52
#"Stop Messin' Around" (Clifford Adams, Peter Green) – 4:32
#"Jesus Is on the Main Line" (Traditional) – 2:50

Bonus track (Japanese version)

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"Jaded" (Tyler, Frederiksen) – 3:34

Personnel

*Joey Kramer - drums, backing vocals
*Joe Perry - guitar, vocals, slide guitar, dobro, hurdygurdy
*Steven Tyler - lead vocals, harmonica, piano
*Brad Whitford - guitar
*Tom Hamilton - bass

Additional personnel

*Tracy Bonham - vocals
*Johnnie Johnson - piano
*The Memphis Horns - brass
*Paul Santo - piano, Hammond organ, pump organ, Wurlitzer

Production

*Producers: Jack Douglas, Marti Frederiksen, Joe Perry, Steven Tyler
*Engineers: Paul Caruso, Marti Frederiksen, Jay Messina, Brian Paturalski, Paul Santo
*Mixing: Marti Frederiksen
*Mastering: Bob Ludwig
*A&R: Steve Berkowitz, Don DeVito
*Guitar technicians: Greg Howard, Jim Survis
*Art direction: Christopher Austopchuk, David Bett
*Design: Fusako Chubachi, Michelle Holme
*Photography: John Bionelli, Michael Coleman, Ross Halfin

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

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