Coco Montoya

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Coco Montoya (born Henry Montoya on October 2, 1951 in Santa Monica , California ) is an American blues guitarist.

Career

The guitarist was born in Santa Monica to a working-class family who owned a large record collection. As a kid, he loved finding notes on the guitar, but his musical career began as a drummer in a rock band performing in local clubs. In one of these clubs she heard Albert Collins , who brought Montoya into his band as a drummer. He took him under his wing and taught him to play the guitar. “He was like a father to me. - Coco Montoya “He stayed in Collins' band until the early 1980s and the two remained friends after their split.

At the beginning of the 1980s he played in small clubs again, where John Mayall heard him and hired him for a new edition of his Bluesbreakers. The guitarist can be heard on three studio albums and one live album by the Bluesbreakers.

In the mid-1990s, he decided to get out of the Bluesbreakers and start a solo career, a decision that his mentor Albert Collins advised him to make. He signed a recording deal with Blind Pig Records and recorded his first solo album. In 1997 they split and Montoya signed with Alligator Records. To this day, Coco Montoya has played around 200 concerts a year. He has been under contract with the German label Ruf Records since his 2010 album I Want It All Back .

tape

  • Coco Montoya: guitar, vocals
  • Brant Leeper: keyboards, vocals
  • Nathan Brown: Bass
  • Rena Beavers: drums, vocals

Discography

solo

  • 1994 Gotta Mind To Travel
  • 1994 Too Much Water (3 track Maxi CD)
  • 1996 Ya Think I'd Know Better (Billboard Top Blues Album # 10)
  • 1997 Just Let Go
  • 2000 Suspicion (Billboard Top Blues Album # 10)
  • 2002 Can't Look Back (Billboard Top Blues Album # 2)
  • 2007 Dirty Deal (Billboard Top Blues Album # 2)
  • 2009 The Essential
  • 2010 I Want It All Back
  • 2014 Songs From The Road
  • 2017 Hard Truth
  • 2019 Coming In Hot

Albums with his participation

  • 2008 Roots & News for the Blues Lovers
  • 2007 Debbie Davies Bluesblast
  • 2007 Crucial Rocking Blues
  • 2007 John Mayall Live from Austin
  • 2006 Walter Trout Full Circle
  • 2003 Got Blues Todays Blues Superstars
  • 2001 Debbie Davis Love the Game

With John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

  • 1985 Behind The Iron Curtain
  • 1987 Chicago Line
  • 1988 The Power Of The Blues
  • 1990 A Sense Of Place
  • 1992 Cross Country Blues
  • 1993 Wake Up Call

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.cocomontoya.com/theband/coco.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.cocomontoya.com/theband/coco.htm
  3. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000164970
  4. ↑ http://www.cocomontoya.com/theband/coco.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.cocomontoya.com/theband.htm
  6. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000164970
  7. ↑ http://www.cocomontoya.com/discography.htm
personal data
SURNAME Montoya, Coco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montoya, Henry (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American blues musician, guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Monica , California, USA