It took Mayall to get me back in the music business.” I was working as a bartender and just playing guitar for fun. “I wasn’t even in the music business at that point. His guitarist Mick Taylor was moving on and he needed a guitarist. “It was almost the same thing with Mayall,” said Montoya. Montoya learned everything he could from the legendary “Master of the Telecaster.” Montoya often pays tribute to his mentor, recording a Collins song on almost every album he’s made. It was during this time that Montoya began doubling on guitar and Collins went out of his way to teach him. After the tour ended, Montoya remained in the band for five more years. “Instead, he told me he’d pick me up in three hours.”ĭuring the tour, Collins took Montoya under his wing, teaching him about blues music and life on the road. “When he called, I figured we’d rehearse for a few weeks before the tour,” said Montoya. A few months later, Collins desperately needed a drummer for a tour of the Northwest, and he called Montoya. The club owner gave Collins permission to use Montoya’s drums. In the early 1970s, Albert Collins was booked to play a matinee at the same small club in Culver City, California where Montoya had played the night before. Later, he joined John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and played guitar with them for 10 years.īoth opportunities came by chance,” said Montoya. Then, at one point in his career, Montoya became a guitar player in the band of a blues icon – Albert Collins. Montoya turned his love of drumming into his profession, playing in a number of area rock bands while still in his teens and eventually becoming an in-demand drummer. He got a guitar two years later, but guitar was his secondary instrument. His first love was drums and he got his first kit when he was 11. He listened to big band jazz, salsa, doo-wop and rock ‘n’ roll. When he was a kid, Montoya immersed himself in his parents’ record collection. That’s what you really need to get the blues.” “I really believe that you have to play what you like.
I make problems because I like a lot of different things – even country and jazz. But I’ve always been at odds with the music business. “There’s rock, there’s blues, there’s R&B, there’s jazz.
“I come from a bunch of different places musically,” said Montoya. They push me to a new level and Jeff Paris on keys and vocals.” They’re all great players – Nathan Brown on bass, Rena B. “My band right now has really taken a big leap. Rejection bothers you but it’s a process that needs to be done. They go to Bruce (Alligator Records president Bruce Iglauer). “We must have gone through 120 songs at least – submitting them and getting them rejected. “I cut the album at the end of last year and it just got released in August,” said Montoya, during a recent phone interview from a tour stop in Des Moines, Iowa. Montoya, a legendary blues-rock guitarist and vocalist, has just released a new album “Coming in Hot” on Alligator Records and is now touring across America in support of his new disc.
Not bad for a drummer from Santa Monica, California. Montoya has built a reputation as an ace guitarist – a guitarist who spent 10 years in one of the best Anglo-American blues band ever – a guitarist who had a blues icon as a mentor. On October 26, Coco Montoya, one of the country’s best modern blues guitarists, will headline a show at Kennett Flash (102 Sycamore Alley, Kennett Square, 48, ). The selected family participates in the construction and commits to pay a 20 year, 0% interest mortgage.There are various generations of blues artists and they span a really large age range. The Hernando DeSoto chapter selects deserving families from a pool of applicants to be awarded a home. Habitat for Humanity’s vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Once again, their goal is to raise $60,000 to help build ONE HOME.
The success of the HomeRun for Habitat depends on community participation and sponsorship. This event has become the largest of its kind in NW Mississippi with over 9500 participants raising over $380,000 for the Hernando DeSoto Affiliate of Habitat for Humanity. The Silo Square in Southaven is the home of the 14th Annual HomeRun For Habitat 5k – KidsDash – Fall Fest.
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