BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION guitarist JOE BONAMASSA and his ace touring band will undertake a UK tour in October to promote his 9th studio album, Dust Bowl. The album will be released in the UK by Provogue Records on Monday, March 21st.

Tickets for Bonamassa’s Dust Bowl UK tour will go on sale to the general public at 9 AM on Wednesday, March 2nd from 0871 230 1101, www.seetickets.com and www.thegigcartel.com. Fans who can’t wait for the general on-sale date, can take advantage of Planet Rock radio’s 48-hour pre-sale, which starts at 9 AM on Monday, February 28th on PlanetRock.com.

UK tour dates include:

October

15 - Blackpool Opera House - Blackpool, UK
16 - Capital FM Arena - Nottingham, UK
18 - Cardiff International Arena - Cardiff, UK
19 - Plymouth Pavilions - Plymouth, UK
21 - HMV Hammersmith Apollo - London, UK
22 - HMV Hammersmith Apollo - London, UK

To celebrate the March 21st release of Dust Bowl, Bonamassa's official website is making the title track available as a free MP3 download. Click here to download the song.

But that’s not all! Provogue Records is pleased to announce that they will also release a Limited Edition Digibook version of the Dust Bowl album, along with the standard CD and vinyl editions throughout the UK and Europe on March 21st.

To pre-order your copy of Dust Bowl: Limited Edition from Amazon.co.uk, click here. North American pre-order options can be seen below.

The limited edition print-run includes a comprehensive 8,000 word, 60-page digibook that chronicles Bonamassa's fascinating rise in popularity as one the most exciting blues guitarists of our time. Written with passion and authority by Henry Yates (guitar correspondent for Classic Rock, Total Guitar and Guitarist), the exclusive collector's edition book features never-before-seen personal photographs dating back to Joe's early childhood as a budding guitarist.

Dust Bowl will be available in North America on March 22nd.

“I think Dust Bowl is the best album we’ve ever done,” says Bonamassa. “I’m finding more inspiration in storytelling in my 30s, in writing songs that are about something more profound than ‘my baby left me.’ I like albums that are made with the right intentions and sound organic and a little rough around the edges, like a great band playing live in the room.”

Dust Bowl is Joe Bonamassa’s sixth collaboration with producer Kevin “The Caveman” Shirley (LED ZEPPELIN, IRON MAIDEN, Black Country Communion) and features collaborations with Nashville legends Vince Gill and John Hiatt, female vocalist Beth Hart, and Joe’s Black Country Communion band-mate, Glenn Hughes.