Coco Montoya & Ronnie Baker Brooks

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Thu Nov 21 2024 at 08:00 pm

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118 E Main St, Riverhead, NY, United States, New York 11901 | Riverhead, NY

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Two Iconic Blues Musicians Join Forces For One Night Only!

Coco Montoya
“Just play what you feel, be real about it and enjoy yourself. That’s what Albert Collins taught me,” says award-winning guitar virtuoso and soul-deep singer Coco Montoya. The self-taught, left-handed player mastered his craft under Collins’ tutelage, for whom he originally played drums. Alongside lessons from UK legend John Mayall, Montoya puts his own stamp onto every song. Since his first solo album in 1995, which won the Blues Music Award for Best New Artist, Montoya’s endlessly inventive guitar work and passionate, hard-hitting vocals have kept him at the top of the blues scene.
Montoya’s new Alligator Records release Writing On The Wall (2023) is his sixth for the label and is already considered one of his best. For the first time on Alligator, Coco brought his road-tested band—noted keyboardist / songwriter Jeff Paris (Keb’ Mo’, Bill Withers), bassist Nathan Brown, and drummer Rena Beavers—into the studio. The camaraderie of the long-time bandmates is evident and the results have left Coco, in his words, “over the moon.” Produced by Grammy Award-winner Tony Braunagel (Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal) and co-produced by Jeff Paris, Writing On The Wall is a tour-de-force of memorable, hook-filled songs, sung with passion and fueled by equally memorable, top shelf musicianship.
Henry “Coco” Montoya was born in Santa Monica, California, on October 2, 1951, and raised in a working-class family. Growing up, he immersed himself in his parents’ record collection, listening to big band jazz, salsa, doo-wop and rock ‘n’ roll. His first love was drums; he acquired a kit at age 11. He got a guitar two years later. “I’m sure the Beatles had something to do with this,” Montoya recalls. “I wanted to make notes as well as beats.” Still an indefatigable road warrior, Montoya continues to tour virtually nonstop, bringing audiences to their feet from New York to New Orleans, and Chicago to San Francisco. Across the globe he’s performed in: Australia, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Norway, England, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Mexico, Ecuador, Italy, Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic and Canada.
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