Black Country Communion Live Over Europe: CD Review

If you have the Black Country Communion DVD Live Over Europe, released four months ago, there's no surprises in the CD. The song list is exactly the same and, as far as I could tell, it is an exact soundtrack of the video performance of BCC's European tour from last summer. From first to last, the 15-song set is identical.

If you haven't seen the DVD, or prefer to listen instead of watch your music, Black Country Communion is a tight, loud and top notch live act, who's songs translate well and, often, improve in the live setting.

The disc consists of songs from BCC's first two albums, plus Guitarist Joe Bonamassa's Ballad of John Henry and bassist/singer Glenn Hughes era Deep Purple classic, Burn. The two CD set is an hour and a half of blue based rock, performed at the highest level.

If your jumping in the car this summer, and taking off for a driving holiday, I can't imagine not having BCC's live over Europe CD in the glovebox: it is the perfect rock and roll accompaniment.




Track Listing

1. Revolutions of the Machine


2. Black Country


3. One Last Soul


4. Crossfire


5. Save Me


6. The Battle for Hadrian's Wall


7. Beggarman


8. Faithless


9. Song of Yesterday


10. I can See Your Spirit


11. Cold


12. The Ballad of John Henry


13. The Outsider


14. The Great Divide


15. Sista Jane


16. Man in the Middle


17. Burn

The CD is in stores Tuesday, or can be ordered through BCCommunion.com or Amazon.com

BCC Live Over Europe CD Release

When Black Country Communion first announced the DVD release for Live Over Europe, it simultaneously announced a CD release (I seem to recall a LP release as well, but can't find that I reported on it). However, when the DVD/bluray was released in the fall, there was no sign of an audio release.

Today, Black Country Communion announced the CD of Live Over Europe will be released on February 28th. It can be pre-ordered now from the BCC website for $19.99 or Amazon.com:

Black Country Communion: Live Over Europe

Black Country Communion: Live Over Europe hit the shelves in DVD format this week with rather a whimper in my part of the world.

The DVD was available Monday in Europe and Tuesday here in North America. In my little part of Canada the large electronics chain didn't have it, and HMV had three copies squirrelled away in the concert DVD section, not up front in the new release display.

The concert film is almost two hours long (1:49 specifically) and features performances of 16 songs. To put things succinctly, the footage is top notch, the sound quality excellent and the performance as good as it gets. Black Country Communion is an excellent live band, and that tells in this DVD.

The second disk in the 2-disk set features a 25 minute feature video, Forging BCC, The Making of Live Over Europe and two photo collections.


The video will be available in Blu-ray November 15th (14th in Europe).

There was talk of an audio release as well, but that talk seems to have dried up, and I can find no evidence of a CD/MP3 release coming soon.

Free Black Country Communion Download

The new live DVD/BluRay and CD from Black Country Communion can be pre-ordered September 13th from the BCC home page and Amazon. The package will ship October 24th. We have also now gotten a look at the cover.



While you wait, you can download a free MP3 of Song of Yesterday.

Watch here for a pre-release review of Black Country Communion: Live Over Europe.

Black Country Communion - Live Over Europe

Black Country Communion has announced their expected DVD will be called Live Over Europe and have a release date of Monday October 24th (likely the 25th in North America).

Here's an exclusive trailer from BCCommunion.com we



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