DESCRIPTION:
Emotion charged, passion filled, guitar solo from Coco Montoya, when he dedicated a long time favorite song, to his friends Walter Trout and John Mayall. Coco and his band played a superb set of blues music for a delighted audience at 'de Gouden Leeuw' (Golden Lion) venue in Dongen, The Netherlands, on Sunday, May 4th, 2014. The gig was hosted by the long established 'Blues Promotion Dongen', now entering it's 27th season, bringing together a community of friendly, blues loving people. The gig opened to an energetic set by Dutch blues band Farstreet, fronted by Jasper Verstraaten.

Featuring:
Coco Montoya - guitar, vocals
Nathan Brown- bass
Rena Beavers - drums
Brant Leeper - keyboard

Extract from Coco website bio: Montoya is a self taught guitar slinger who plays with an emotional intensity few string benders possess. Playing left-handed and upside down like Albert King, Montoya learned his guitar techniques from his years with Collins. "I never had a lesson in my life. "I would watch other guitar players to catch what they did. I would wait for that one moment when they would do it, and just stare at them and try and remember where their hand was, where their fingers were.
It all started with a chance meeting in the mid-1970s with legendary bluesman Albert Collins, who offered Montoya a gig as his drummer. Albert took an immediate liking to Montoya, becoming his mentor and teaching his new protégé the secrets of Collins' "icy hot" style of blues guitar.
From 1976 until 1984, Montoya had lost some of the feel for music and worked bartender jobs to survive. In 1984, his second mentor, John Mayall, was celebrating his birthday in a bar where Montoya was performing. Montoya's from the hip version of "All Your Love" caught Mayall's ear and Coco was asked to pack his Strat and follow previous Bluesbreaker guitarists Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor in the Bluesbreakers. "I would never be doing what I'm doing now if I hadn't gotten the phone call from John Mayall." Coco worked alongside Walter Trout for several years, while in the Bluesbreakers. After three records with Mayall as a member of the Bluesbreakers, , Coco decided in 1993 it was time to take the lessons from his two musical fathers and begin to sculpt a solo career.

Links:
http://www.cocomontoyaband.com/
http://www.bluesdongen.nl/2014-05-04-coco-montoya-u-s-a/

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