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Live Coco Butter Band performance with Liam Bouterre on Bass/Organ and Coco Bouterre on Drums from the 2014 Phoenixville Blues Fest After Party at The Phoenixville Moose Lodge with guitarists Nick Schnebelen and Albert Castiglia on guitar/vocals.
The Coco Butter Band is a Phoenixville, PA based Hammond organ soaked soul, funk and blues band who relentlessly perform throughout the Philadelphia area. The band has received many accolades including performing as duo winners for the Steel City Blues Society at the 2013 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN, hosting a television show for DittyTv in Memphis, TN, being featured on NPR radio and performing at top local establishments including The Sellersville Theater. The band consists of Liam Bouterre who performs triple duty as a singer, bassist and Hammond Organist/Rhodes player and Coco Bouterre, a Soultone Cymbal endorsed artist, who performs double duty as singer and drummer. Currently their album, “American Brothers” is available for digital download in iTunes, Amazon and streaming on Spotify.
Nick Schnebelen, the award winning, Kansas City based blues and roots influenced artist and is well established in the Blues, Roots and Americana genres for a number of years, as a member of the internationally touring and award winning band Trampled Under Foot. He originally moved from Kansas City to Philadelphia in 1997 and quickly formed the nationally touring band called, "Killing Floor.” and opened up for countless acts, such as Johnny Winter, Robin Trower, Robert Cray, Derek Trucks, George Thorogood, Steve Miller and James Brown.
In 2003 Nick also began playing blues with his brother and sister and formed the internationally award winning blues band, "Trampled Under Foot", which originally included Liam Bouterre on Organ while the band resided in Philadelphia. In 2008, Nick won the Albert King Award for the most promising guitarist at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN and TUF also won first place in the competition. Nick performed with TUF on stages as far away as Norway and Switzerland, on numerous Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruises, and his nationally performances with TUF included Austin City Limits and the Brooklyn Bowl. TUF has shared the stage with such greats as Chaka Khan, Edgar Winter, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Leon Russell, Big Head Todd & The Monsters, Blues Traveler, George Thorogood & The Destroyers and Galactic. In 2013, TUF released the #1 album, “Badlands” on iTunes and Billboard Blues Charts with producer Tony Braunagel, whose own fame includes touring with Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray and producing a Grammy award winning album by Taj Mahal.

Albert Castiglia is also well established in the Blues, Roots and Americana genres for a number of years. Having opened for ZZ Top, Elvin Bishop, and The Radiators, he’s quickly becoming a favorite high energy performer at festivals across the country. He originally played in a local Miami Band, The Miami Blues Authority, and won awards locally for “Best Blues Guitarist.” He got a big break after meeting the legendary Junior Wells in 1996, and soon became Junior’s lead guitar player before Wells died in 1998. Albert toured the U.S. and Europe with Junior and then found himself in Chicago when Junior passed. Soon though, he was touring again with Sandra Hall.

He returned to South Florida after deciding to launch his solo career and went to work on his first CD, Burn (2002), a self-release, collaborating with his long time friend, Graham Wood Drout of Iko-Iko. In 2006, he released A Stone’s Throw, his second album and first release for Blues Leaf Records, which included two of Drout’s insightful songs, “Big Toe” and “Ghosts of Mississippi.” Castiglia and Drout also released a live CD together, titled The Bittersweet Sessions, in 2005.
His 2008 CD, These are the Days (Blues Leaf Records), contained five original Albert Castiglia songs, including a tribute to his mentor Junior Wells, “Godfather of the Blues.” These are the Days earned him a Blues Music Award nomination for “Song of the Year” for his original, “Bad Year Blues.” Castiglia was nominated again by the Illinois Blues Blast Awards and this time walked away a winner for “Song of the Year” for “Bad Year Blues,” as well as being nominated for the “Sean Costello Rising Star Award.”
His most recent RUF Records release of SOLID GROUND was scheduled for April 8th, 2014.