Coco Montoya – I Want It All Back (Ruf Records).
Erstwhile Bluesbreaker, Coco Montoya has a reputation within blues circles as an awesome guitarist. He forged this reputation alongside Walter Trout in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and has continued it into a parallel solo career. He’s not just about the blues though and Hey Senorita has Latin grooves meeting the blues with punchy guitar from Montoya. The piano fills make you feel like you are in Cuba. The eponymous title track is soulful, with silky guitar from both Montoya and Keb’ Mo’. Forever is another on the soul side, not surprising seeing that Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland were involved in its composition, and Cry Lonely will creep into your head.
As Close As I Have Come is a bit tired and The Life Of My Broken Heart, whilst strangely familiar, is mainly harmless soft rock. The One Who Really Loves You continues his laid back, soulful side although his guitar does get a little outing this time. Buster Brown’s Fannie Mae delivers some of the guitar slinging Montoya that we all know. This takes us back to the days of his exchanges with Walter Trout in The Bluesbreakers and has the added bonus of Rod Piazza on harp and Jeff Paris on Hammond organ. Don’t Go Makin’ Plans (the only song written by Coco) is a funky offering and the funk continues on She’s Gonna Need Somebody, one of two written by keyboardist Jeff Paris, which is vocally good and has its base in the blues. He finishes with Jackson Browne’s Somebody’s Baby. This is a great song and Coco and the band play it well but it lacks the impact of the original and I’m sorry to say that it is out of place here.
http://www.cocomontoya.com/
http://www.rufrecords.de/
David Blue.
Erstwhile Bluesbreaker, Coco Montoya has a reputation within blues circles as an awesome guitarist. He forged this reputation alongside Walter Trout in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and has continued it into a parallel solo career. He’s not just about the blues though and Hey Senorita has Latin grooves meeting the blues with punchy guitar from Montoya. The piano fills make you feel like you are in Cuba. The eponymous title track is soulful, with silky guitar from both Montoya and Keb’ Mo’. Forever is another on the soul side, not surprising seeing that Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland were involved in its composition, and Cry Lonely will creep into your head.
As Close As I Have Come is a bit tired and The Life Of My Broken Heart, whilst strangely familiar, is mainly harmless soft rock. The One Who Really Loves You continues his laid back, soulful side although his guitar does get a little outing this time. Buster Brown’s Fannie Mae delivers some of the guitar slinging Montoya that we all know. This takes us back to the days of his exchanges with Walter Trout in The Bluesbreakers and has the added bonus of Rod Piazza on harp and Jeff Paris on Hammond organ. Don’t Go Makin’ Plans (the only song written by Coco) is a funky offering and the funk continues on She’s Gonna Need Somebody, one of two written by keyboardist Jeff Paris, which is vocally good and has its base in the blues. He finishes with Jackson Browne’s Somebody’s Baby. This is a great song and Coco and the band play it well but it lacks the impact of the original and I’m sorry to say that it is out of place here.
http://www.cocomontoya.com/
http://www.rufrecords.de/
David Blue.
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