Mike Zito - Life Is Hard - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Mike Zito, Life Is Hard. Zito recorded the new album in September at Sunset Sound Studios in Hollywood, California, with Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith producing. Both Bonamassa and Smith were involved in the production of Blood Brothers, the critically-acclaimed album Zito recorded with fellow tag guitarist Albert Castiglia. The even-dozen tracks on Life Is Hard include not only several Mike Zito originals, but also his takes on a wide variety of blues songs written by such contemporaries as Tinsley Ellis, Walter Trout, Tab Benoit and Fred James. Sprinkled in are covers from a diverse assortment of blues/roots music icons, including Little Milton (InchLonely ManInch), Stevie Wonder (InchHave a Talk with GodInch) and Reverend Gary Davis (InchDeath Don't Have No MercyInch), plus the outside-the-box blues-worthy rendering of the Guess Who classic, InchThese Eyes.Inch Mike Zito - Guitar and Vocals / Joe Bonamassa - Additional Guitar / Josh Smith - Additional Guitar / Reese Wynans - Keyboards / Calvin Turner - Bass / Lemar Carter - Drums / Paulie Cerra - Saxophone on InchLonely ManInch / Jennifer Kumma and Anna Spina - French Horn on InchForever My LoveInch and InchThese EyesInch / Jade Macrae - Background Vocals / Dannielle Deandrea - Background Vocals / Steve Ray Ladson - Background Vocals on InchDeath Don't Have No MercyInch / French Horn Arrangements by Calvin Turner Album Tracks 1. Lonely Man - Milton Campbell, Bob Lyons 2. Life Is Hard - Fred James 3. Have a Talk with God - Calvin Hardaway, Stevie Wonder 4. Forever My Love - Mike Zito 5. No One to Talk to (But the Blues) - George Sherry, Wayne P Walker 6. Dying to Do Wrong - Tinsley Ellis 7. These Eyes - Randall Charles Bachman, Burton Cummings 8. Darkness - Tab Benoit 9. Without Loving You - Mike Zito 10. Nobody Moves Me Like You Do - Walter Trout 11. Death Don't Have No Mercy - Gary Davis